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Jack Armstrong
Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and get ready.
Joe Getty
Live on a Friday from studio aoc.
Jack Armstrong
See senor Emily lit room deep within.
Joe Getty
The bowels of the Armstrong and getting communications compound. And today, heading into a summer weekend, we're under the tutelage of our general manager, Trump v. Musk.
Jack Armstrong
The debroification. Funniest headline I saw about this. The brilliant Nellie Bowles in the Free Press. Real Housewives of Pennsylvania Avenue.
Joe Getty
That's pretty funny. Elon Musk called it doge on doge violence, which is pretty fun.
Jack Armstrong
Has everybody woken up and recovered their sense of humor? Perhaps.
Joe Getty
I only had about three hours sleep last night, so there's a good. There's a good chance I'm just gonna go. Elon and Trump, you know, completely unhinged. No. No thought to how things land when you say them.
Jack Armstrong
So, you know, scorched earth, burned bridges, What? No.
Joe Getty
I don't know who against, but I don't have a target.
Jack Armstrong
Well, it's funny, we're both wearing like green T shirts. Green T shirts. Today it looks like we're the world's oldest fattest recruits.
Joe Getty
We got the Zelinsky look going today, like we're on a war footing. Maybe we are on a war footing.
Jack Armstrong
I know I am. Boy, if the army has to resort to us, we are up against it, folks. Everybody to arms. Kitchen knives, ball bats, whatever.
Joe Getty
Yeah, it's funny you had mentioned the army. I was just thinking, because today is June 6th. I'm always interested in remarking on the anniversary of D Day. And I was thinking, first time this has ever popped into my head. I hope D Day continues to be the top most massive invasion in world history and we don't get to see another one in our lifetime. You know, like trying to drive the Chinese out of Southern California or something like that.
Emily Litella
Right.
Jack Armstrong
Indeed. Yeah. I would say, given my recent readings on the, the innovations in warfare recently, the idea of a massive force on many, many ships is. It might be a thing of the past, I don't know, but nobody's sure.
Joe Getty
That had been predicted many times that, you know, the whole boots on the ground. I remember hearing when I was in the 80s, people talking, next war will be a push button war. Well, we've seen an awful lot of grunts on the ground. And then the decades since. At some point that always happens. But anyway, we'll talk about the great.
Jack Armstrong
Mike Lyons has pointed out many times it's easy to take. It's much easier to take territory than to hold it.
Joe Getty
Right. That's the whole game. We will talk about that a little bit later. Yeah, it's disappointing that it happened when we got off the air yesterday. I mean, we, we, we predicted it, that. Which doesn't exactly make us geniuses, but we said exactly, more or less what was going to happen a half hour before it got unleashed.
Jack Armstrong
Right.
Joe Getty
And, and, and that it was going to go scorched earth. And, and you predicted it would happen before you finished your sandwich for lunch. And it did. And. Correct.
Jack Armstrong
And we also predicted the increasing childishness. Personalness. Is that a word? And just, just how it became completely unhinged.
Joe Getty
The unique prediction you had was that Trump would use the power of his office. I thought it would just be personal insults like he does with Rosie o' Donnell or whoever. He's going, no way. But he, he men briefly the idea of canceling all contracts with Elon. And then Elon said he was gonna pull back one of the rocket programs, which he changed his mind on. Later, I woke up to something saying Elon backs off and like, turns. What would be the right word? I don't know. Decent at the end of the day. But then I went back and looked through tweets. It must have happened before the most recent tweets I read because it was more Epstein stuff with more links. Here's Donald Trump dancing at an Epstein party with some young blondes and stuff like that when I went to bed. So, you know, I don't know where we are on that. What do you, what do you suppose his point is on the whole Epstein thing? Is that just trolling, like, to get under his skin.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, yeah, sure. I don't know what any other explanation would be.
Joe Getty
Well, is he claiming he's got some information that Trump is actually, you know, on the hook for something super untoward? I mean, it'd have to be beyond cheating on his wife. Nobody cares about that.
Jack Armstrong
Sure. You know, partying with sexy young women is kind of what he was known for. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I find myself just continually dragged back to the fact that, you know, if we have a unhinged man child running some of our most important corporations, that's. That's inconvenient.
Joe Getty
Well, we do.
Jack Armstrong
Unhinged man child running the White House is particularly disturbing to me, and I hope everybody calms the hell down. But to your question, I'm trying to find it. I'm strolling along. Somebody tweeted, hey, guys, everybody needs to cool down, okay? And Elon retweeted it and said, true or something. Yes. Right.
Joe Getty
But in the midst of a bunch of other things that you shouldn't say, oh, boy. They supposedly have a phone call plan for today. Trump and Elon, to work things out and calm things down.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, is that right?
Joe Getty
I find that unlikely to work. I. I don't know if you've ever been in this situation before. I actually haven't. Nate Bargazi's got a great bit about this. Having an argument with his wife where you more or less, you're both coming to the table, waiting for the other one to apologize because they. They finally realized they were wrong, but you're both feeling that way.
Jack Armstrong
And it.
Joe Getty
Becomes pretty clear that, oh, I thought you were here to apologize to me. Why would I apologize to you? And. And it's back on again. So that, I mean, I can't imagine them with their personalities, not doing that today. Well, we'll see. Hope that happens while we're on the air.
Jack Armstrong
On the other hand, I was listening to Mark Halpern talking about how Trump, he does not have a conventional relationship with other human beings, in that they're either somebody you like or you don't like, or occasionally, if you don't know him. Well, it's neutral. For Trump, it's always conditional. And you can have a long, wonderful friendship with somebody, but if they say something you don't like, or whatever, they are now your enemy, which vice versa.
Joe Getty
Which, oddly enough, is exactly the way all of Washington, D.C. tends to be.
Jack Armstrong
Right.
Joe Getty
As soon as you can be of benefit to me, we're together. As soon as you're not of benefit to me, I will cut your throat.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, yeah. It's disconcerting when people appear to be actual friends, but you're right. It's a very DC Ish way to operate.
Joe Getty
I read another thing last night. I'LL get to some of the details on it. Somebody who, you know, is knowledgeable in this topic about how Elon's being on the spectrum. People on the spectrum do not have the same. It's funny, I know somebody who quite possibly is on the spectrum and has this tendency. But people who are on the spectrum, the autism spectrum, don't have the same concerns or even understanding. I mean, you can't even say concerns. They don't understand the concept of, like how this is playing socially with other people.
Jack Armstrong
Right.
Joe Getty
And Elon might very well be like that in that he just. He doesn't get the whole. You shouldn't say that because people react this way. I've always just assumed it because it's rich. He's rich and it's powerful. But he could, it could be he just. He doesn't pick up on those social norms.
Jack Armstrong
Right. Doesn't have a sense of the battlefield, what is perfectly appropriate, what's pushing the limits, what's inappropriate and what's horrific to say.
Joe Getty
Although I still say same thing as I said yesterday. I don't understand why more people can't just accept. He thinks the debt is the biggest problem we've got. The end. It doesn't have to be more complicated than that with EV contracts or they were friends or he thinks the debt is the biggest problem we've got. He thinks this bill makes it worse.
Jack Armstrong
It would be absolutely lovely if we were to. If we could focus on the question as opposed to the fireworks. Yeah, that. Well, I just don't. Don't hold your breath.
Emily Litella
Oh, no.
Jack Armstrong
Breaking news. Steve Bannon has called for Elon Musk to be deported.
Joe Getty
Yeah, okay. Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
That's some pretty good trolling.
Joe Getty
That was a good troll that Ian Bremmer had on his Twitter feed last night of when Elon is deported, he deserves due process.
Jack Armstrong
Will other African Americans rally to Elon's side?
Joe Getty
Yeah. Where people land on this, I don't know. How about Elon's tweet in the middle of the day of I think we need a party that represents the 80% in the middle. If he thinks 80% of the country is fiscally responsible, he's wrong. But there are 80% that really aren't that interested in what the extremes of each party think.
Jack Armstrong
True. But the dynamics that have led to the current situation remain small contribution fundraising on the Internet.
Joe Getty
If only.
Jack Armstrong
Social media mania.
Joe Getty
If only someone who is so wealthy they could fund the whole thing came.
Emily Litella
Along.
Joe Getty
That could get around that whole thing. I mean, what if Elon Elon spent almost $300 million on the Republican Party. I think he's right that he got Trump elected and got Republicans the House and the Senate. I think that's accurate despite what Trump says. But he. What if he threw three quarters of a billion dollars into it? Or more? What if he put several. The guy's got. It's a lot less today than it was yesterday. Tesla went down, like, $300 billion.
Jack Armstrong
It's all on paper. I'm sure it'll bounce back.
Joe Getty
Yeah. But anyway, he could spend $10 billion and barely make a dent in his life on trying to form a new party in a way that nobody else could.
Jack Armstrong
It's a hell of an intriguing thought.
Joe Getty
Yeah. I'd say we should probably start the show officially. There's lots to talk about today. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this. It is Friday, June 6th, known as D Day since 1944, the year 2025. We are Armstrong and Getty, and we approve of this program.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, one final note. Very exciting. Speaking of alternate parties, the F y' all Akins, my new political party. We. A couple of choices for our theme song, so. Because you need an anthem.
Joe Getty
God, I feel like if you could get that name to Elon, he would run with that. He would love.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I probably ought to copyright it. Can somebody tell me how you do that? Okay. Right.
Joe Getty
Ask Gro, since it's Elon.
Jack Armstrong
Ah, right. God bless our troops in the 1940s and today. Let's begin the show officially. Now, according to FCC rules and regulations. Here we go at.
Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
Done for this country over the last several months, but you've lost your damn mind.
Joe Getty
Oh, boy, that's.
Jack Armstrong
I can't remember. Troy. Hells of Texas.
Joe Getty
Well, suggesting. Congressman, suggesting the president's a pedophile or something like that. I mean, that is. That's pretty over the top. But the. But the sticking to your guns on fiscal conservatism, I just don't. I don't see that as crazy like a lot of D.C. does. He doesn't understand politics. Okay, fine. He understands debt, though.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Yeah. I'm disappointed, of course. You know, I woke up disappointed. I'm disappointed that Elon could not stick to the core issue and instead took it personal and childish. Two unhinged man childs.
Joe Getty
Yeah, that doesn't help. So we got Katie's headlines. We got clips of the week. We got lots of stuff to get to today. And you and join in right now if you want to. What do you think of the whole thing? Whose side you on? You have to pick a side. That's the way Life Works. Text line 415295, KFTC Armstrong and Getty.
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Jason Isabel Today on Fridays I listen to music instead of news. On way to work I went Jason Isbell. He is William Faulkner with a guitar as what he is, he is a Liberal. Is Flannery O' Connor with a $250,000 Les Paul.
Jack Armstrong
I'd be. I'd have to like have a cast iron strap or something. I'd be afraid it would fall. What? Les Paul is that.
Joe Getty
Ed King, the former guitar player from Lynyrd Skynyrd. He bought Ed King's les Paul for $250,000.
Jack Armstrong
Chimney.
Joe Getty
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
Does he sit around all day?
Joe Getty
No, he plays it on stage.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Fantastic.
Joe Getty
Anywho, there was a major Supreme Court decision yesterday. Like major. And it was nine nothing but supreme earth shaking decision. Yes. Two man childs got into a twitter war and it obscured the Supreme Court decision. So we'll have that for you coming up. Next segment, who's reporting what?
Jack Armstrong
It's the lead story with Katie Green. Katie, let's do it.
Joe Getty
Well, we'll just start with that story. Abc. Trump tells ABC that Mosque has lost his mind and he's not particularly interested in talking to him. But they're gonna talk today. At least that's what the story was when I woke up, unless it changed.
Jack Armstrong
Real Housewives of Pennsylvania Avenue, I love that.
Joe Getty
Yeah, they're supposed to talk on the phone and work it out or something. I think it'll get worse. I just stick with their personalities. If they talk next day, give it a week or something. I think it'll get worse. From Breitbart.com Musk's ex AI chatbot Grok pushes back on Musk's claim that Trump is in the Epstein files. That's funny. You know, a number of people have made the point that, you know, you got to give credit to Elon that he allowed tweets from Trump badmouthing him and his corporations on his platform. I mean, you know, good friends from the New York Times. US adds 139,000 jobs in May as hiring remains steady despite tariff uncertainty. Right. Even with the tariffs and all the, you know, supposed doom and gloom beat expectations. And Trump's approval ratings are up, which he mentioned yesterday about a thousand times. But, yeah, he's back up in the mid to high 40s. So I don't even know what to say.
Jack Armstrong
I think those of us who spend our lives poring through the headlines in the news and the conflicts and the rest of it, we're at the risk of not seeing the world the way the average person going to work and barely paying attention to politics does. Correct.
Joe Getty
From the Wall Street Journal. Iran orders material from China for hundreds of ballistic missiles. Oh, my God. The axis of a holes go even further.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Iran's trying to beef up their defenses after being decimated, and we're just not doing anything for now. And Steve Witkoff's negotiating.
Joe Getty
China's gonna help them. China. This one from page six. Elon Musk's estranged trans child Vivian, to star in RuPaul Star's Drag Show. Okay, well, if you have 57 kids, statistically, one of them is going to be trans, I suppose.
Jack Armstrong
Okay, so they're in a drag show as a former boy. Current. Well, they're still a boy, but okay. So I guess technically, from my point of view, that is a drag show because it is actually a boy.
Joe Getty
From the New York Post Biden only hand signed one pardon during final spree and it was his most controversial. That might make sense. Which one's most controversial? Hunter. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I could believe he sat there and signed that one. And finally from the Babylon B judge determined Trump will get the nation on the weekdays while Musk will get every other weekend and holiday. Oh wow. Wow again. Major Supreme Court decision. Such good news. 9 Nothing slapping down were the dumbest ideas in modern American history. And we'll tell you about it because you probably didn't hear about it. All that's coming up. Lots of news today.
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Jack Armstrong
Indeed, a lot of great stuff to get to. But first let's take a fond look back at the week that was. It's cow Clips of the week.
Joe Getty
Well, breaking news. Velociraptor mounted Border patrol agents.
Jack Armstrong
I think it's a beat big. This is Cow Whips of the week.
Joe Getty
The Armstrong and Getty Show. A disgusting abomination. We'll see how this little experiment goes, but I'm not optimistic. What I have decided to do is to follow my own compass.
Katie Green
I Don't make my kids go to school.
Joe Getty
The last couple days of school. I don't see the point. We don't want no Tuesday. Here's how to eat a banana.
Katie Green
Now we don't pick it up and.
Jack Armstrong
Peel it like a primate. Instead we use a knife and fork.
Joe Getty
In my target that used to have the pride section. It's now all usa.
Jack Armstrong
Yay.
Joe Getty
Just a few hours later, mom and dad and little sister Gizmo together eating a fish.
Jack Armstrong
Nancy has a headache and requires treatment. I will need about an hour and.
Joe Getty
A bottle of Asta spumonti.
Katie Green
The biological male shared the first place wins with both of her female born competitors.
Joe Getty
The travel ban is indeed back and nothing will stop us from keeping America safe.
Jack Armstrong
This scares the hell out of me.
Joe Getty
I've been doing this for 40 years.
Jack Armstrong
We're not gonna have anybody around to.
Joe Getty
Wipe our because we don't have enough people. Witnesses say Solomon was dressed like a G. Gardner.
Jack Armstrong
Solomon brought 18 Molotov cocktails to the park. He was about to use a makeshift flamethrower.
Joe Getty
And all I saw was someone on fire. Russia reeling from Ukraine's astonishing and unprecedented drone attacks. More than 40 aircraft ablaze.
Jack Armstrong
We also have stronger tactical solutions. Our Operation Spider Web yesterday proved that.
Joe Getty
I made it very clear. He said we have no choice but to attack. Elon Musk and Donald Trump are going through a divorce.
Jack Armstrong
You know, I was like disappointed to see the massive spending vote. Frankly.
Joe Getty
Elon Musk and I agree, I agree with Elon Musk. Elon and I had a great relationship.
Jack Armstrong
I don't know if it will anymore.
Joe Getty
I was surprised. Artificial reality more different than any generation in human history. So I got the thumbs up from an old guy yesterday walking down the street in my cyber truck before the feud happened. I think he was an old guy who's a Republican. Are liberals gonna stop flipping me off in my cybertruck now?
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, the Republicans will. Yes. Republic. The Democrats, progressives are going to high five you at stoplights. Yes. For driving a Tesla. That's correct.
Joe Getty
Wow.
Jack Armstrong
Oh my Lord. Hot and cold running. Stupid. So Jack was 100% right. Gigantic Earth shaking Supreme Court decision yesterday. Unanimous. Written by of all humans, Katanji Brown Jackson said essentially no. You don't have to climb any sort of high mountain of proof that you've been discriminated against just because you're a member of a majority group. Discrimination is discrimination.
Joe Getty
So if you're a white or a man or straight or whatever, you know, that group gets all the breaks. Discrimination is discrimination. If it's you or anybody else.
Jack Armstrong
And if I might depart on a tangent just for a minute or two, it's been very frustrating to me. I don't know why. I'm especially sensitive to the fact that we, conservative, sane America, have given away the battlefield of language over and over and over again. You have conservative news outlets, at least formerly, using the term gender affirming care, for instance, which is a wildly prejudicial term. Well, I have seen over and over again in coverage. For instance, here's the headline of the Wall Street Supreme Court makes it easier to pursue reverse discrimination claims.
Joe Getty
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
Stop using the term reverse discrimination. It's just discrimination.
Joe Getty
Well, and the ruling is basically saying there is no such thing as reverse disagreement. That's what the ruling is.
Jack Armstrong
Nine cities distinction without a difference. Correct. Yeah.
Emily Litella
Wow.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, that's. That's the effing point. Yeah.
Joe Getty
How do you. That's funny. I didn't see that. I didn't seek out that story. I was all Elon and Trump. I just wanted to.
Jack Armstrong
To see the fireworks, you child.
Joe Getty
No. Reverse discrimination. The justices just said that whole concept is stupid. It doesn't make any sense.
Jack Armstrong
Nine, nothing, including kbj, who is to the left of Trotsky.
Joe Getty
This is the most heartening Supreme Court ruling I can remember in years.
Jack Armstrong
Title 7 prohibits discrimination of the Civil Rights Act, I should say, of 1964. You know, it's funny, you don't want to be too hip for the room. Title 7 of the Civil Rights act of 1964, it was an enormous turning point in American history. It said it prohibits discrimination because of an individual's race, color, religion, sex or national origin, unless they're white or straight. No, it didn't blanking say that. Of course it didn't. That would be obscene. That would further betray the principles that this country was founded on that we've worked hard and a bunch of people have, have died to try to perfect. So, yes, this is justice. It's, it's wonderful. It's fabulous. Don't help the other side by twisting the language. Yeah.
Joe Getty
So huge deal. That was very, very exciting and should have been the lead story yesterday. I can understand why it wasn't with the whole Trump, Elon thing exploding midday, which we're going to talk more about later. And just a little explaining, for one thing. Yeah, exactly. Some of the punditry around Trump and Elon and all that sort of stuff, which has been interesting on Elon's own Twitter, which of course, I assume would favor him.
Jack Armstrong
Are we off on this Because I really wanted to make another point about the Supreme Court.
Joe Getty
I was just going to say the majority of people by far are on Elon's side, but that's on his Twitter. But we'll get to more of the punditry coming up. Hour two.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, well, now I'm intrigued, but I will not follow that up. Hour two. So here's why I think this is really, really important on a different level than just fulfilling the nation's promise, as I was talking about. And that is it makes it infinitely clear, or it should, to anyone paying attention how little base of support there is for the bizarro where a white supremacist, Ibram X Kenny Robin d' Angelo systemic racism only. Only white people can be racist. Because it's about illustrates how so clearly how little support there is for that notion. It's that whole point of view which you poor people, especially in blue states, a lot of you became convinced most people think this and. Or I've got to toe the line because anybody who doesn't is getting fired. Nobody believes this crap except angry, vicious extremists who somehow held the reins of corporate America for a while. And certainly they still hold it in education, but they are on an island, those people.
Joe Getty
Well, and people with too many degrees.
Jack Armstrong
Yes, yeah, 100%. Yeah, but. And you know, we receive so many emails from people who, you know, in blue states, especially in education, in industry, being forced to go to those states. GD pardon me racial sensitivity trainings that were taught by Robin d' Angelo Ibram X Kendi type because they were raking in millions and millions and millions of dollars right after George Floyd got dead. And everybody had to sit through it and say, yeah, I agree, I'm a racist because I'm white. Yeah, okay. All right. And it was humiliating and angering and everybody had to sit through it. It. When nine nothing. The Supreme Court said, no, no, we're not running our country like that.
Joe Getty
So what?
Jack Armstrong
Nine nothing.
Joe Getty
So what are the other ripples in the pond that come out from this? This has got to have an effect on just the whole affirmative action idea, doesn't it?
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, it, it. The whole affirmative action idea was like that weed that you hit with Roundup about four days ago. It was starting to. It's starting to look pretty bad, but it's not. Not dead yet. This will, this will push it further.
Joe Getty
Down that road, I would think in college is, you know, favoring this group or that group to try to balance things out. All that stuff.
Jack Armstrong
Right. And to me and this is my jihad. The reason I think that's especially good is that will remove the temptation to try to right various wrongs way too late. So you've got inner city schools that suck. There's no school choice. The teachers unions control them. No innovation is allowed. And these poor little kids of all races, but more black brown kids, whatever, they get no damn education. And then instead of doing the real hard, honest reforms that we need to do, they try to fix it at the college level and just promote those kids up. And the problems are never solved. If you want more black kids to excel academically, you don't start when they apply to Brown University.
Joe Getty
So did this uphold the lower court ruling or overturn a lower court ruling?
Jack Armstrong
Overturned two lower court rules.
Joe Getty
How were they so off track that the Supreme Court 9 nothing, including some super lefties said, what are you talking about? You can't fix discrimination with discrimination.
Jack Armstrong
Right.
Joe Getty
That is something.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. I hope I'm not a judge. I would like to be, though. I'm very judgmental, which is really the key. That's the way I see it in the name. Anyway. I hope being overturned this completely, loudly, unanimously, is some sort of horrible humiliation for judges, because I would like to see them, like, drag nude through the streets like an episode of Game of Thrones with the lady ringing a shame bell at least. Yeah.
Joe Getty
I'd say at the very least.
Jack Armstrong
Right. That's just. We've got. There've got to be disincentives for bad behavior. Yeah. And rulings. Shame. That's right, your honor. There you go. Now you're naked walking through the streets.
Joe Getty
TNF. TNF'd. Where's my rail? That's what I say. Did you go in the office and change Feathered. Did you go in the office and change shirts during the commercials?
Jack Armstrong
I did.
Joe Getty
Is it because. Because we were both wearing green T shirts and you just didn't think that was a good look or nobody can see it.
Jack Armstrong
I didn't. I didn't like the way it looked.
Joe Getty
Like we're a team or something like that.
Jack Armstrong
No. I just didn't like the way it looked on me on camera. We've got monitors looking at everybody. I didn't care for it either. It looks schlubby, looked unprofessional.
Joe Getty
Okay. Okay. I. I wear a suit every day. On the Friday, I. I dress like a bum. Speaking of bums, there was a scary bum in the parking lot as I walked from my car. I thought, you know, actually, why don't you go in and work and I'll just wander around the parking lot. That's a beautiful morning. Why am I going to work while you wander around the parking lot getting your tax dollars? Yeah, exactly. Joe's mailbag Next. And a bunch of stuff. Stay here.
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Are news junkies, so I assume you know what Trump and Elon said to each other yesterday though. An hour or two we can run through the highlights, but some of the analysis around it by different people I find pretty interesting. And you probably haven't heard that because you have normal lives and you don't dig into this sort of thing. Look forward to it.
Jack Armstrong
Hour 2 here's your freedom loving quote of the day from Francis Bacon, perhaps the most delicious English writer. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self. I think what he's trying to say is power is intoxicating and can make a monster out of you.
Joe Getty
Do you like your Francis Bacon kind of limp or do you like it stiff?
Jack Armstrong
You know, I realize this is a unique answer to that question. I like it always. And I react to crispy bacon and say, oh wow, it's crispy today. If it's kind of limp, it's like, oh, nice rare bacon.
Joe Getty
I like it when I make a plate of bacon and I do it a lot to have kind of a combo. Some of them are stiff, some of them are limp.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I, I don't mind that at all.
Joe Getty
No mailbag. It's kind of, you know, the viva variety.
Jack Armstrong
I mean it's like everything's a surprise. Let's see. Drop us a note mailbag@armstrong giddy.com I.
Joe Getty
Just thinking of somebody I knew who for years would make bacon every morning and bring it to work in their purse. Three pieces of bacon.
Jack Armstrong
Wow style. Yeah. Let's see, let's see. This is Kevin from beautiful Placerville, California. Hey, Big Freedom. No, Simple Jack. Jack, you called it. All right, now that MAGA's in full civil war, we need to know the official position of the ANG show. Are you guys Team Trump or Team Elon? There's no middle ground here, obviously. I await your announcement of a formal declaration of allegiance by the end of our one. Oh. Anyway. Owen2 Exactly.
Joe Getty
I love the idea that you have to pick a side because that's the way life is. Nothing is your more compl Complicated or deserves nuance.
Jack Armstrong
Right. Who has time? Let's see. Ryan from Houston. Jack, Joe, really is a good thing with Trump and Musk bickering like school children that our world is at peace, budget is balanced, and our biggest problem is that the bullet train from Houston to Los Angeles is just too damned fast. All right, I get your point, Ryan. Let's see. Joel is close, is quoting Shelley Hutton. I don't know, Shelly, but she said concerning the end of the White House bromance. It's like one big diaper blowout on a 10 hour international flight and no spare diapers.
Joe Getty
You. I think Elon absolutely should have done everything he did up until the insults yesterday. The people are saying he should have kept his mouth shut about the big beautiful bill. No, he shouldn't. Absolutely he shouldn't, in my opinion. If you're a fiscal conservative and you think that that's bad for the country, why the hell wouldn't you say that?
Jack Armstrong
Well, because it might hurt Trump. Okay, fine. Dave from South Carolina, can we not spend the entire show today feeding the egos of these two narcissists? Narcissists? I mean, I voted for djt. And Musk has a few good qualities for sure, but both of their main goals seem to be who can get their names mentioned more often than the other on a daily basis. Neither one is our savior, even though both seem to think that they are. Some plain talk from South Kakalak. Thank you, Dave.
Joe Getty
Two of the most famous men, I mean, like the two most likely names to emerge from this period that will still be talked about a hundred years from now, like maybe more than any other two men I can think of.
Jack Armstrong
It absolutely is possible. One politically because God knows how all this ends, and the other scientifically. Let's see, on the topic of men holding hands are.
Joe Getty
Which, according to the New York Times, it was common in the 18th century, early 20th century for men to walk around holding hands and sit on each other's laps in the park, which I don't believe.
Jack Armstrong
This is from R. I worked for Many years assisting a contemporary wet plate collodion photographer.
Joe Getty
Okay.
Jack Armstrong
It's the old timey photographic method. I can attest to the fact that throughout the 19th century it was not inappropriate to do so to hold hands. Specifically, the image below is typical of many images made during the American Civil War. I don't believe there's any connection whatsoever to homosexuality, just different standards. And it's a couple of fellas posing for an old timey photograph, holding hands.
Joe Getty
But why haven't I seen more of that if it was common or it comes up in a book? You know, I read lots of literature that's written in that time and I've never come across one. And, and you know, Jim and Eugene came walking down the road holding hands as they often did as good friends. I've never ever come across that.
Jack Armstrong
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Joe Getty
I could have fallen for that one.
Jack Armstrong
I think that's a big one these days, folks. It happens all the time. You get the phone call, it's a scammer.
Joe Getty
I had the cops come to my house one time because I hadn't paid a ticket. I have to tell that story sometime. It was horrifying. Going scofflaw, we've got a lot in hour two.
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Armstrong & Getty On Demand: "Do You Prefer Limp Or Stiff Bacon?" Released: June 6, 2025 | Host: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty | iHeartPodcasts
The episode kicks off with a heated discussion between hosts Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty about the escalating Twitter feud between Elon Musk and Donald Trump. Both figures are portrayed as "completely unhinged," displaying a lack of consideration for the repercussions of their online interactions.
Joe Getty reflects on the situation:
“Elon and Trump, you know, completely unhinged. No. No thought to how things land when you say them.”
(04:29)
Jack Armstrong expresses his concern over their conduct:
“Unhinged man child running the White House is particularly disturbing to me.”
(08:27)
The hosts predict that their disagreements will intensify, likening their interactions to "school children" and emphasizing the potential negative impact on public discourse and leadership standards.
A significant portion of the podcast is dedicated to discussing a unanimous Supreme Court decision that redefines discrimination in the United States. The ruling unequivocally states that discrimination is discrimination, regardless of whether it targets majority or minority groups, effectively dismissing the concept of "reverse discrimination."
Jack Armstrong underscores the ruling's importance:
“Discrimination is discrimination. If it's you or anybody else.”
(32:08)
Joe Getty adds his agreement:
“The justices just said that whole concept is stupid. It doesn't make any sense.”
(33:30)
Building on the Supreme Court decision, Armstrong and Getty delve into the ramifications for affirmative action and broader educational policies. They argue that the ruling highlights the inefficacy of addressing systemic issues like poor education in inner-city schools through college-level affirmative actions.
Jack Armstrong criticizes the current approach:
“They try to fix it at the college level and just promote those kids up. And the problems are never solved.”
(37:40)
Joe Getty probes further into the ruling's impact:
“So what are the other ripples in the pond that come out from this?”
(37:15)
The hosts advocate for earlier interventions in the education system to address disparities, suggesting that relying solely on higher education solutions perpetuates the underlying issues.
Transitioning to a lighter topic, Armstrong and Getty explore historical norms surrounding male friendships, specifically the practice of men holding hands in past centuries. They challenge contemporary perceptions by referencing photographic evidence and historical practices that normalized such displays of camaraderie without any implications of homosexuality.
Joe Getty comments on the scarcity of historical references:
“Why haven't I seen more of that if it was common?”
(48:02)
Jack Armstrong provides context with historical imagery:
“Specifically, the image below is typical of many images made during the American Civil War.”
(48:10)
This segment aims to contrast past societal norms with present-day interpretations, fostering a discussion on changing cultural standards.
Aligning with the episode's title, the hosts engage in a humorous debate about bacon preferences, debating between limp and stiff bacon textures. This segment showcases their playful rapport and serves as a palate cleanser amid more serious discussions.
Joe Getty shares his method:
“I like it when I make a plate of bacon and I do it a lot to have kind of a combo.”
(45:07)
Jack Armstrong admits his indulgence:
“I like it always. And I react to crispy bacon and say, oh wow, it's crispy today.”
(44:43)
Listeners contribute their thoughts and anecdotes through the mailbag segment, reflecting diverse perspectives on the discussed topics. Notably, one listener challenges the hosts on their stance regarding the Trump-Musk feud, asking for a clear declaration of allegiance.
The hosts respond by emphasizing the divisive nature of the feud and reiterate their critique of both personalities.
As the episode winds down, Armstrong and Getty advocate for more rational and less personal engagement in political and social discussions. They stress the importance of focusing on substantive issues rather than personal vendettas, urging listeners to prioritize meaningful dialogue over sensationalism.
Notable Quotes with Timestamps:
Conclusion
In "Do You Prefer Limp Or Stiff Bacon?" Armstrong and Getty navigate a blend of serious political discourse and lighthearted banter. They critically examine high-profile figures' conduct, delve into pivotal legal rulings reshaping societal norms, and engage with historical and everyday topics. The episode balances informative discussions with the hosts' trademark humor, making complex issues accessible and engaging for listeners.