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Jack Armstrong
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Yeti. They are the biggest anti government protests in Iran in years. Cars set on fire. Videos posted on social media showing the violent escalation. Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei saying protesters are destroying the country. To quote, please the U.S. president. And Trump posting on social media Saturday. Iran is looking at freedom perhaps like never before. The USA stands ready to help.
Joe Getty
I was watching that pretty closely over the weekend. Really would love to see that regime fall. See those people yanked out of the palace by their beards, drugged through the streets.
Jack Armstrong
Boy, they'd been the source of a hell of a lot of violence and angst and hate in both their region and around the world. Iran, a malevolent force, no doubt.
Joe Getty
And I would say Richard Engel of NBC with his report on the story.
Jack Armstrong
There are hundreds of thousands of people on the streets. They are setting fires. They are occupying certain neighborhoods and able to hold them for certain amounts of time, at least temporarily. And the protesters, they're not asking for change. That's how it started. They wanted economic reforms. The currency was in free fall. Now they want it to go.
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Jack Armstrong
Iran is weaker than it's ever been because it lost Hezbollah, it lost Bashar al Assad. So I would say definitely this is the weakest that they've been.
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The biggest challenge that they've faced since the 1979 revolution.
Joe Getty
Wow. I've heard other people say differently, and Richard Engel's pretty good on this stuff. Revolutions are so interesting, you know, the ones that have happened in my lifetime and then reading about them throughout history, it's just so. I mean, they often get squashed, and then, you know that you try it again, you get squashed, and then the next time it works. And why? Nobody really knows. The magic recipe for when a regime can't get their security forces to get the crowds out of there, or world opinion turns against them enough or whatever.
Jack Armstrong
Right, right. Did you hear the rumors that the mullahs were spotted at the airport?
Joe Getty
No.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. I don't know. They're sitting there at the gate listening to their. They got their Beats headphones on, sitting there at the terminal. No, I haven't heard any more than that, but I thought that was interesting.
Joe Getty
Get a plane for you and your beard.
Jack Armstrong
You know, you and your beard obsession. Years and years ago, I took in a lecture by a political scientist that I thought was super interesting. He was talking about liberty, which is a topic near and dear to my heart, that you got three kinds of liberty. You got personal liberty. I can do what I want for a living, I can go where I want, that sort of thing. You've got political liberty in that you are allowed to vote for the politicians of your choice, whatever. You can vote on laws and that sort of thing. And then you've got national liberty, meaning your country isn't under the thumb of anybody else and can choose its own destiny, more or less, and can defend itself. Right. And the reason that popped to mind was the poor people of Iran had this unholy deal with the current government where, all right, we got no personal liberty and we got no political liberty, really. But you do keep us safe. We're a strong country. We're not gonna get beat by any other foreign powers or whatever, and we're kind of proud of that. Well, now they got 0 for 3. Both Israel and the U.S. you know, exposed them as a paper tiger, just really a child on the world scene. And the people of Iran are saying, if we're getting nothing in this bargain out.
Joe Getty
So Trump said a week or so ago, they start shooting protesters, the United States is going to come to the aid of the protests. And now 500 to 1,000 or more people got slaughtered over the weekend. Body bags over the place, injured people all over the place, hospitals full of people who have been beaten enough to go to the hospital. All kinds of people. The prisons are full of detainees who will probably be tortured or killed, that sort of thing. So now what does Trump do? The Wall Street Journal writing, President Trump is scheduled to be briefed tomorrow on options to respond to the protests in Iran. According to U.S. officials assigned, the president is considering reprimanding, that's a kind word, the regime for its crackdown, as he is repeatedly threatened. The president's planned meeting with senior administration officials will be a discussion about its next steps, which could include boosting anti government sources online, deploying secretive cyber weapons against Iranian military and civilian sites. That's exciting. Or placing more sanctions on the regime. I hate the S word because I feel like it's worthless. I just don't feel like sanctions have ever done anything that I've ever seen. Washington Post writing, Donald Trump says Iran has contacted the United States, which I thought was interesting, to propose talks as his administration weighs responses, including military options, amid reports from rights groups that hundreds of people have been killed. So Iran contacting us and saying. And saying what? Ah, let's do business.
Jack Armstrong
Hey, what are you looking for? What do you need. Let's talk. I think we can come to a deal. Well, they're desperate. Well, that talk of secretive cyber weapons reminded me we've got to talk, we've got to bring up that Venezuela stuff.
Joe Getty
Let's, let's do that. Now. Where, where do we have that?
Jack Armstrong
That's 70 through 72.
Joe Getty
Yeah, this is really, really interesting.
Jack Armstrong
Why don't we go ahead and start with 70? From News Nation, Xavier Walton talking about the situation there in Kami, Venezuela.
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The travel warning for Venezuela is still at a level four out of four. So the highest one in the State Department's wording pretty blunt here. So it says that all U.S. citizens or anyone with U.S. residency status in Venezuela should leave the country immediately before warning not to travel to Venezuela for any reason at all. A security alert issued by the US Embassy in Karak is specifically pointing to armed groups like the one you're seeing here, including pro government militias known as colectivos, who are setting up roadblocks and searching vehicles. While the Trump administration, you know, doesn't believe there are bounties on Americans, they are urging extreme caution.
Joe Getty
I feel like my situation's at a four out of four a lot of times.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I hear that. Well, if you decide, you know what, let's go to Venezuela. Commies are still in charge and they're really, really pissed off at what happened. But as an American, let's go.
Joe Getty
But here's the exciting thing, getting to, you know, using cyber weapons or some sort of newfangled weapons on Iran, apparently we did in Venezuela. According to this report, White House Press.
News Nation Reporter
Secretary Caroline Levitt sharing a little bit of something on social media was an ex post from California conservative activist Mike Netter of an alleged transcript of an interview with a member of the Venezuelan security forces loyal to Maduro. Now in that post, the so called security guard claims that around 20 US troops killed hundreds of Venezuelans and used sonic weapons. The guard allegedly said, quote, and this is a little graphic here for the morning, but it was like a very intense sound wave. Suddenly I felt like my head was exploding from the inside. We all started bleeding from the nose. Some were vomiting blood. We fell to the ground, unable to move.
Joe Getty
Goldschlager will do that too.
Jack Armstrong
It sounds like my Friday night.
Joe Getty
Yeah, so I believe that because all the reports on this to me have seemed like, how did that happen? I mean, he knew. He knew we were coming for him. He's got a freaking army surrounding him. How the hell did we get in there without more of a fight?
Jack Armstrong
And elite Cuban guys, too. I mean, I see us winning, you know, 43, to cite a football metaphor, but zero casualties and in and out and all. Yeah, I wonder if we neutralized them with the old brain scrambler.
Joe Getty
We hit him with the bs they felt like their heads were gonna explode. They're stomping around holding their heads.
Jack Armstrong
You got the sound, Michael? What's the sound of the brain scrambler? Come on full alert in there.
Joe Getty
And then we shoot them.
Jack Armstrong
Do we have that ray gun sound?
Joe Getty
Well, they're stumbling around with the. The brain ray thing going on.
Jack Armstrong
Well, right, exactly.
Joe Getty
And we just shoot them all, grab the dude out of his bed and get out of there. And that's. And again, that was just so surprising to me that. That Maduro and his wife were practically caught in bed. I mean, they had just gotten out of bed trying to get to their safe room. Like, didn't you hear a giant firefight? Well, it wouldn't be a giant firefight if you scramble their brains and you just shoot them each one.
Jack Armstrong
Did you not tell your guards that if they call twice, even though your phone's on do not disturb, it'll go through? I mean, what sort of alert mechanism? How long does it take to get from your bedro to your safe room? You don't have, like, a buzzer and a flashing light or anything? No, here's. Here's the brains rambling. Right? We got that ready?
Joe Getty
Finally.
Jack Armstrong
Michael.
Joe Getty
Oh, no, I don't have that.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, for God's sake.
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Joe Getty
Good God, we have so many sound effects. Something. Anything. We got nothing. We got nothing for a brain scramble.
Jack Armstrong
I'm sorry. What's happening? I mean, you can. You can apologize all you. What happened?
Joe Getty
You're Justin Herbert laying on his back last night. That's what you are. Wow.
Jack Armstrong
The big game comes, and Michael didn't show up. All right.
Joe Getty
But anyway, that. That doesn't surprise me. That rings true to me based on how that whole thing turned out. So maybe we start doing that to Iran. Start scrambling with a beard. Scramblers.
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Insanely good football action over the weekend. Want to touch on that? Among other things on the way, a couple of Supreme Court decisions that have come out already, mostly cases they're not going to take up. We can touch on that also. So I hope you can stick around.
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Stafford going towards the end zone.
Joe Getty
Parkinson what a catch and a touchdown.
Jack Armstrong
Catch the nest. High outside, left foot, right foot. He is in.
Joe Getty
Rams looked horrible the whole game and then right at the end the fourth quarter drive, they come back and win the game. And I saw this quote from quarterback Matt Stafford who went into the huddle with the team and said, let's go snatch these guys hearts.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, bunch of heart snatchers out here.
Joe Getty
Some swagger for someone who'd been sucking the whole game. Just like you can't compete. It would have been the biggest upset in like 40 years if the Rams had lost and it looked like they were going to law lose in terms of a point spread. We've been Talking about the 49ers a lot because we're based in Northern California and a lot of 49ers fans here. But the other team in California, the Chargers, looked their poor quarterback, got the crap beaten out of the last night and I was just, for some reason I was looking this up because I just think it's kind of interesting human story. He's a great college player, comes into the league, sets rookie records, all this, all this sort of stuff as a quarterback for the Chargers and then he signs a $250 million contract or something like that. But he's never won a playoff game and he gets just his head beaten.
Jack Armstrong
In every time they make the playoffs.
Joe Getty
I wonder what that's like.
Jack Armstrong
Well, having a rough day at work in the NFL is a lot rougher than Most of our rough days, isn't it?
Joe Getty
Yeah, no kidding. But then you got the quarter of a billion dollar contract so you know, that'd be a salve for your wounds.
Jack Armstrong
Hey Joe, how's the show today? I don't know, it's just not great. I just didn't get things going and. Oh, and I broke my lower leg and got a concussion. Yeah, I'm gonna be, I'm gonna be.
Joe Getty
Packed in ice for the next week.
Jack Armstrong
Speaking of jobs, ready to move on to this? This is absolutely crazy. One of the bay area of San Francisco Bay area is how to startups is hiring like crazy and they might, they might be looking for you, nevermind. Driving for uber, delivering people's McDonald's for whatever service. Mercor is this AI startup valued at $10 billion and they're, what they do is they train AI models to replace all of us. Right? And they're getting very specific. They are hiring all sorts of different people, from astronomers to psychologists to industrial engineers, filmmakers, creative writers, comedians, legal experts, investment bankers and venture capitalists to check out what their AI can churn out in that person's field and tell them what's good and bad about it. Critique the AI so it can better replace them their entire career field down the line. A dermatologist can make as much as 250 bucks an hour helping a healthcare partner develop its decision support tools. And poets who quote Enhance AI's understanding of poetic structure.
Joe Getty
AI is going to replace poets?
Jack Armstrong
I know this, that part seems stupid.
Joe Getty
And the world yawns.
Jack Armstrong
We'll put that aside for the moment. But poets who quote Enhance AI's understanding of poetic structure, literary nuance and emotional expression can earn as much as $150 an hour. Which for your average poet is what they make in a week, on average.
Joe Getty
I don't think your average poet makes anything.
Jack Armstrong
Mercourt hired over 30,000 such contractors last year to work on these projects.
Joe Getty
That's a big test. Not that, not that I like poetry, but it doesn't really matter that much in terms of a jobs thing but, but anything that requires that level of human creativity. Will AI ever be able to do that? I'm skeptical about that.
Jack Armstrong
And if it does become capable, where the hell does that leave us?
Joe Getty
Yeah, no kidding, no kidding. If it can crank out brilliant mind numbing literature and poetry or movies and songs, but it can do like a hundred years worth in five minutes, right? What would that do?
Jack Armstrong
Well, yeah, I mean we're as, we are both just so, so sophisticated. We're Worried about, you know, the highest levels of art, but how about formulaic crap? How many people is that gonna put out of work?
Joe Getty
Good, put them out of work.
Jack Armstrong
Here's a specific for you. Here's this gal, Katie. She's 30, she's a video editor. And she saw posting for a job which she initially thought, like a lot of people do with this might be a scam, but it wasn't. It was looking for a video editor. And that's her training in her career. She soon landed an interview conducted by an unseen AI Proctor with a male sounding voice. Hello, baby. She wasn't quite sure what the job would entail, but the pay was 45 bucks an hour, so she moved ahead. She is now about six months into various projects that have involved watching video clips and writing out captions of everything that's happening in them and rating the quality of videos generated by prompts. She has mixed feelings about the work. Blah, blah, blah, I'm replacing myself. So she looks at the AI editing of videos and says they lingered on the shot of the puppy dog too long and didn't cut to the kitty cat or whatever. I don't, I don't know what it is, but.
Joe Getty
Well, yeah, you can have an interesting job, you can have all the mixed feelings you want, but it's happening whether you like it or not.
Jack Armstrong
So, yeah, I just, I'm amused by the idea of. I mean, for instance, is AI going to crank out talk radio next? And do they need people to sit there and listen to some AI talk show host and it's hot, hot takes and then say it's takes out and trump, we're a little knee jerking without nuance. I don't, I don't want to be.
Joe Getty
Catty, but I feel like there's a fair amount of talk radio that AI could do. I'm not going to mention the shows because it would not be to my benefit, but I can name like five shows. AI listen to that. You could crank that out all freaking day long. You know exactly what they're going to say about everything.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, yeah, true.
Joe Getty
For better or worse.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. And we'll all find out together.
Joe Getty
But if you know Warren Peace, one of the great books ever written, if it can crank out a hundred Warren pieces every 3:30 seconds, where does that leave the world?
Jack Armstrong
What.
Joe Getty
What are you doing there? I don't, I don't even know what.
Jack Armstrong
Is the worth of each individual one, which used to be a monumental achievement of genius, hard work and dedication. Now it's just crap. A machine spits out.
Joe Getty
If it wasn't written by a person, does it make any difference also? I don't think we know that yet.
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Jack Armstrong
Good evening and welcome to.
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The 83rd Golden Globes. Yes, the Golden Globes, without a doubt the most important that's happening in the world right now. I cannot believe the amount of star power we have in this room tonight. It's insane. There's so many A listers. And by A listers, I do mean people who are on a list that has been heavily redacted. But. And the Golden Globe for best editing goes to. The Justice Department. And the award for most post editing goes to. CBS News. Yes. CBS News, America's newest place to CBS News.
Joe Getty
So I thought that joke was interesting. I assumed that was gonna eventually be the take. Barry Weiss takes over cbs, makes an effort to try to make it more, well, real news. And that's going to be the take on it if, if she's successful. And man, last week I was very unhappy with their coverage of the Minneapolis shooting. But if she's successful, they're going to get huge ratings. They just will. I mean, look at Fox.
Jack Armstrong
Right? Right? Yeah, that's. Yeah. Okay. I like the Epstein references there.
Joe Getty
You can't get enough Epstein monologue.
Jack Armstrong
Oh yeah. I, I would like to renew my offer. I will skip the next two rounds of headlines have anything to do with the Epstein files. And if anything significant comes out of them, I lose the bet anyway. I won't lose. Perhaps you heard us talk about this last week. Here is one. Sia Weaver, the director of Tenant something or other under the Kami Mumdani in New York City.
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I think the reality is, is that for centuries we've really treated property as an individualized good and not a collective good. And we are going to transitioning to treating it as a collective good and towards a model of shared equity will require that we think about it differently. And it will mean that families, especially white families, but some POC families who are homeowners as well, are going to have a different relationship to property than the one that we currently have.
Jack Armstrong
Again, I love the way she brightens as she says, especially white families because she knows that'll get her lots of approval among her wackadoodle peers.
Joe Getty
And I think she also feels it in that weird self hating. Wouldn't it be awesome if white people had fewer houses?
Jack Armstrong
What?
Joe Getty
That is so nuts.
Jack Armstrong
Well, and she admits people of color will be forced out of their Homes, too, as the government takes them over. And a couple of reactions. One, I think, deals with the symptoms, and the other one that addresses the cause in a way that I should have been hip to. But. So there's a couple of associations of black homeowners in New York City, including one called Brownstones of Bedford Stuyvesant, Bed Stuy, as they call it in New York, which was founded decades and decades ago to help keep black homeowners in historically black neighborhoods. And they have an association, they're proud of their neighborhoods and they keep it clean. And, you know, if people run into trouble, try to help people, you know, keep their homes, that sort of thing. And everybody involved in that is like, what's this one person's name? Renee Gregory's, the current president said, white supremacy. I'm not white. I read Weaver's comments. I don't know where they came from, blah, blah, blah. And she says, we're all about, oh, here it is. Marlon Rice, who's running for the Senate district there in New York, said, homeownership is an essential element of black wealth. It's repugnant to attach yourself to policies that look to value homeownership. We should be fortifying pathways to home ownership. So you got a bunch of black activists in this article in the New York Post saying, this is the last thing in the world we ought to be doing. Purchasing a home is a tool to lift your family out of poverty, not a tool of white supremacy. This one guy wrote about his own father's experience, actually. And then you know what? I was reminded, and I think one of the great battles we're fighting here against all the WOKE stuff is that the policies they advocate are not their point. Those are just strategies. And this is from the fabulous so Smart Alicia Finley in the Wall Street Journal, and the title of the article is How Mamdani and Sia Weaver Plan to End Private Housing. Their proposals would make apartment buildings impossible to sustain. That's by design. And that's what a guy like me or Charles C.W. cook or a lot of people forget when we look at their neo Marxist policies and say, that'll never work. You can't artificially depress rents because then the owners won't be able to maintain their buildings and nobody will put more buildings on the market. And it's going to make this situation worse. Well, what happens if you make a situation worse and worse? That system collapses. Very good. If you filled in that blank, that system collapses. That's the cloud pivot strategy. You overload a system until it collapses. Then you say, well, this system is collapsed. We need to replace it with. And you happen to have a system ready to go, and that would be Marxism. So there they absolutely. And again, this is not the paranoid ravings of some kla. This is the brilliant Alicia Finley in the Wall Street Journal. She describes the decommodifying housing in the plan. Drive out private investors by making it impossible to turn a profit and keep properties in serviceable condition. Then the government will seize the buildings and hand them over to tenant collectives and nonprofits to manage under communal ownership.
Joe Getty
So that's the plan.
Jack Armstrong
They know it doesn't work. They know the numbers don't work. They want that.
Joe Getty
Well, the economic part is horrifying. And then you put the racial part on top of it. Like, you have so much glee at the idea of taking homes from white people for some reason. So she's a racist and a communist.
Jack Armstrong
Well, I think part of her excitement in using those terms is during the COVID slash George Floyd era, any nod toward that's white supremacy. And if you support it, you're a white supremacist. You immediately won the day. Your Marxist policy got immediate widespread acceptance because you had floated the scary, scary prospect of white supremacy. Doesn't work anymore. But they really lean hard into that strategy because it worked so well for a while. I mean, you look at all the corporations that were, and not to mention, you know, school districts and universities that were forcing all their folks to undergo what was recently declared by the 8th Circuit Court an unconstitutional training process, indoctrination process. You're reminded of how scared everybody was of being called a white supremacist. So that's why they lean on it so hard.
Joe Getty
You know, one thing they've got on their side for people wanting change about housing is, as I read an article about this the other day, the housing market is about as weird as it's ever been in our nation's history in terms of everybody thinks everything's overpriced. Everybody's got loans that are so low you'd never move unless you absolutely had to. It's just. It's a very, very strange situation for being able to afford to live somewhere, you know, which leads to rents being higher. Also, I don't know what's ever going to break us loose of that boy.
Jack Armstrong
And it is going to absolutely make people miserable on the road to succeeding in their policy goals. Here's a little evidence for you. So market. Well, how do I put this exactly? So the city's Public housing units. What? They want to control all of the public housing units. They have 40% more maintenance deficiencies than older rent stabilized units still in private hands and 150% more than market rate ones. So the closer it is to public government ownership, the more miserable the housing unit is. And they want to turn everything into that. Man. Socialism is the. It's a system of shared misery. Oh, that reminds me. I was gonna do a little feature. I was gonna call Joe Getty's all you need to know and thank you, Michael.
Joe Getty
Oh boy.
Jack Armstrong
And let me see if I can find. Oh, there it is. Fabulous. I found it in time. This is all you need to know. Venezuela used to be much wealthier than Poland anyway. 02 Because Poland was suffering under socialism. Then Poland implemented free market economics and capitalist principles and enjoyed an economic boom. Venezuela, which was an economic juggernaut, chose socialism which brought poverty and misery to its people. Here you go. In roughly 1980 the GDP per capita in Venezuela was about $18,000. In Poland it was about $10,000. So almost twice as good in Venezuela as Poland. Then the the wall fell. Poland embraced capitalism, blah blah blah. And now just a few years later, Venezuela's per capita GDP has gone from 18,000 to 5,000 and Poland's has gone from around 10,000 to 33,000 per capita.
Joe Getty
That's all you need to know. Answering the age old question of where.
Jack Armstrong
Would you rather retire?
Joe Getty
Poland or Venezuela?
Jack Armstrong
Exactly. The beaches are better in Venezuela by a long shot. But you gotta deal with the secret place anyway. Oh, and so yeah, they just didn't do socialism. Right. We're gonna do it right? Man, I wish I had more than two fists because all those people need a punch. Anybody has ever said that really is craving a punching. We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.
Joe Getty
Yeah, all right.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Ask the polls in the Venezuelans about the warmth warm embrace of collectivism. Good God. You're a monster, Mum. Donnie.
Joe Getty
So last night Hollywood's biggest stars gathered for the Golden Globes. And the movie they that got the most awards is either brilliant or woke. Nonsense. We got a couple of texts about that among other things on the way. Stay here.
Jack Armstrong
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You know, you are so unsuitable for my daughter. My child comes from a whole line of revolutionaries and you look so lost. What are you gonna do about this baby?
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Joe Getty
It's a very jazzy trailer for the movie One Battle After Another which has come into my mind. Share Just in the last couple of weeks a couple people I know have seen it. Then I thing about it being super woke and I kind of rolled my eyes at that because I've been told other things are woke and then I watch them and I think sometimes a cigar is just a cigar lighting up.
Jack Armstrong
Right?
Joe Getty
But I was just reading about this and somebody on the staff, I won't say who, said that they watched it and said this movie is like a love letter to crazy protesters who are woke up. And based on the plot line how have I not seen this yet? Or how is this not getting more conversation? So this movie, One Battle After Another won Best Picture last night at Golden Globes and a whole bunch of other awards. Here's the plot. The film follows an ex revolutionary who is forced back into his former combative lifestyle when he is in and his daughter are pursued by corrupt military officers. It focuses on a left wing militant group. It centers on leftist revolutionaries, deals with immigration, racism, systemic power and political division. Features storylines around ICE detention facilities and white supremacism. Sounds perfectly fine and includes moments where the parents are anxiously talking about their daughter's friend's pronouns. You got people in violent struggles with ICE and authoritarianism. Yeah, it sounds like a movie afraid.
Jack Armstrong
They'Re getting the pronouns wrong.
Joe Getty
It's hard to imagine this movie not being woke up, but it does sound like if it's going to bunch a bunch of awards and get a lot of attention, something I'm probably going to see this week so I can talk about it. We did get this text for your information. The DiCaprio, Leonardo DiCaprio is in it. Which one of the reasons I rolled my eyes at it is Leonardo DiCaprio was in Don't look up, which I was told was so insufferably woke. And I found it fine. I thought it made fun of everybody, so didn't bother me a bit. But the new movie that DiCaprio is in is so woke and the worst movie I didn't. It didn't even make sense. Lots of sex too. We actually. Okay, well the sex has bothered you. I know. We actually walked out of the IMAX theater because it was so bad.
Jack Armstrong
So I remember the big award winner last year. Was it last year or two years ago?
Joe Getty
Right.
Jack Armstrong
Was the whole transgender cartel boss thing that I actually took one for the team and watched. It was hilariously unwatchable and it won all the awards.
Joe Getty
Okay, I'll watch this one this week. So I, I asked Claude, I said, I'm hearing that this movie is pretty woke. Yes, the film has definitely sparked debate about its politics, why some might call it woke. And then it mentions all the ice stuff and everything like that. But it did say this. Other critics disagreed with calling it a left wing movie, writing that blah, blah, blah, blah. It's more critical or satirical than a celebratory of radical politics. And that's kind of what I thought. Don't look up. Was it was like making fun of all of those, the, the, you know, the excesses. The excesses, yes. Right.
Jack Armstrong
I don't.
Joe Getty
I have to watch it to decide for myself. And whatever I decide doesn't mean it's right either. But wow, it's got ice and authoritarianism going too far and blah, blah, blah. A week after that shooting in Minneapolis, that movie's going to get a lot of attention. So the reason I'm going to watch it is Golden Globes are last night, meaning Oscars are coming soon. I guess it's award season and there'll be way too much talk about this all over the place.
Jack Armstrong
It's absolutely possible. I don't know this. I haven't seen it. I'm intrigued that folks on the left who've seen it think it's celebratory when it is satirical. Because as we pointed out many times, it's almost impossible to craft satire of lefty views because they're so hilariously over the top. So I don't know.
Joe Getty
Speaking of this person being bothered by the sex scenes, I've always wondered why sex scenes are in movies. Most movies. And did you know why they put sex scenes in most movies?
Jack Armstrong
Because most people like them. I don't know. It helps tell the story.
Joe Getty
It doesn't help tell the story. It does not help tell the story. Very, very seldom does it help tell the story. It's just like, here's some porn for two seconds to satisfy somebody.
Jack Armstrong
You are more anti sex scene and movie than anybody I've known outside of the clergy. Well, there's a lot of responding.
Joe Getty
There's a lot of movies that are perfect, perfectly fine in every way. I'm watching with my kids and then all of a sudden they're some guy's banging the hell with some chick. Like, why, why is this here? Can I get a version without this while I'm watching it with my 14 year old? Because the rest of the movie's fine and it didn't add anything.
Jack Armstrong
Well, to you it didn't. You're like the person who says, how can you watch baseball? It's boring. No, it's actually not. What? It's boring.
Joe Getty
No, no, no. That does not work. That would be like.
Jack Armstrong
It works beautifully. It works as good as a well turned double play.
Joe Getty
That would be like if I'm doing something and then they give me baseball. And I would say the same thing. If I want to watch a baseball game, I know where to find it.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, metaphor is as bad as your movie editing. It's terrible.
Joe Getty
I know.
Jack Armstrong
Part of life. Sex, love, passion.
Joe Getty
It's part of life. If I want to watch baseball, I know where to find a baseball game. If you want to watch porn. God, it's everywhere. So I just don't understand why you jam it into the middle of this movie. It'd be like if you were talking.
Jack Armstrong
To your co worker at work and you dropped your pants real quickly and then pulled him back up.
Joe Getty
Right? We're watching that movie about James Garfield being assassinated and then all of a sudden, bam, bam, bam, bam. Like, what?
Jack Armstrong
Well, I'm working with Puritans. That's. That explains the buckled shoes and the weird hats they wear all the time, Michael.
Joe Getty
And the assassination of James Garfield has like. It's just a couple of. Let's drop some porn. Let's have pornhub drop in for a little while. Okay, now back to James Garfield. It almost seems hilarious.
Jack Armstrong
Sorry you're offended.
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I'm not offended. I'm confused. If you missed a second to get the podcast. Armstrong and Getty on demand.
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This episode centers on major civil unrest in Iran, U.S. foreign intervention tactics (including rumors of new “brain scrambler” weapons), implications of AI in the workforce, controversial proposals to collectivize housing, and rapid-fire takes on awards season movies and culture debates. As always, the hosts blend sharp political commentary with sardonic humor.
[02:30–07:53]
“I was watching that pretty closely over the weekend. Really would love to see that regime fall. See those people yanked out of the palace by their beards, drugged through the streets.”
— Joe, [03:19]
[07:53–12:16]
“Do we have that ray gun sound?” – Joe
“We got nothing for a brain scramble.” – Jack ([11:41])
[18:06–23:13]
“Will AI ever be able to do that? I’m skeptical about that.”
— Joe, [19:54]
"Is AI going to crank out talk radio next?"
— Jack, [22:01]
[27:25–37:09]
“Socialism is… a system of shared misery.”
— Jack, [34:10]
“That’s all you need to know. Answering the age-old question of where would you rather retire—Poland or Venezuela?”
— Joe, [36:25]
[40:33–45:48]
“You are more anti sex scene in movies than anybody I’ve known outside of the clergy.”
— Jack to Joe, [44:54]
“It would be like if you were talking to your co-worker at work and you dropped your pants real quickly and then pulled them back up.”
— Jack, on random explicit scenes, [46:01]
| Topic | Start – End | |----------------------------------------------|----------------| | Iranian Protests, Regime Change | 02:30–07:53 | | Venezuela intervention, Sonic Weapons | 07:53–12:16 | | AI Replacing Creative Work | 18:06–23:13 | | Housing Policy, Neo-Marxism, Socialism | 27:25–37:09 | | Golden Globes, “Wokeness” in Film | 40:33–45:48 |
This episode is quintessential Armstrong & Getty: irreverent, rapid-fire, and clear-eyed in its skepticism and wit. The hosts skillfully surf between geopolitics, technological disruption, domestic policy debates, and culture war flashpoints, serving up tart commentary and barbed humor for devoted listeners—and critical insights for anyone trying to make sense of headlines.