Dumb & Dysfunctional

Summary

Armstrong & Getty On Demand — "Dumb & Dysfunctional" (March 27, 2026)

Podcast: Armstrong & Getty On Demand

Host: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty

Date: March 27, 2026

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Episode Overview

This episode, titled "Dumb & Dysfunctional," focuses on the state of U.S. politics, government shutdowns, dysfunction in Congress, ongoing international crises—especially regarding Iran and the Middle East—and a recurring theme of general societal and institutional breakdown. Topics range from government dysfunction, media bias, and the war with Iran, to pop culture, sports dynasties, tech and AI anxieties, and humorous but pointed commentary.

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Main Discussion Points & Insights

1. Opening Banter & Theme

• The hosts kick off the episode referencing military attire, enlistment age, and a lighthearted acknowledgment of their own unsuitability for combat.
• Tone: Sarcastic, irreverent, and self-aware.

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2. Congressional Dysfunction and Government Shutdowns

Timestamps: 06:08–07:39; 19:15–21:56

• TSA Shutdown: Discussion of the long-running TSA/government funding impasse, its (minimal) effect on most Americans, and the political calculus behind shutdowns.
• Quote:
  • “They live paycheck to paycheck. Let's screw them good and hard because polls show the Republicans will be blamed, says Chuck Schumer. It's just disgusting.” — Joe Getty (06:08)
• Political Strategy: Critique of both parties’ cynicism, with the current blame placed on Democrats using shutdowns as leverage.
• Shutdowns Accomplish Nothing: Universal agreement that government shutdowns yield little more than temporary inconvenience without political gain or loss.
  • “Such a... Just dumb. It's just dumb and dumb and dysfunctional. Yeah, dumb and dysfunctional.” — Show Announcer (07:21)

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3. Congressional Exodus and Loss of Idealism

Timestamps: 07:39–07:55

• Noting the pattern of retirements from Congress:
  • Quote:
    • “Dozens of Congress people… a handful of senators are like, this is stupid. I'm going to go do something else.” — Joe Getty (07:39)
• Reflection that idealistic newcomers are frequently demoralized by the current system.

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4. Willie Brown on San Francisco’s Decline

Timestamps: 07:55–08:54

• Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown attributes the city's problems to social worker-driven policy and lack of practical control.
• Hosts note the irony of a major Democrat critiquing "progressive" experiments that spiraled into dysfunction.
  • “All this putting a bunch of social workers in charge of all this sort of stuff and everything like that was a disaster.” — Show Announcer (08:43)
  • Commentary on potential shifts back toward pragmatic governance.

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5. Middle East Crisis: Iran War & U.S. Troop Deployments

Timestamps: 08:54–10:49, 26:35–28:39

• Escalation: Coverage of rumors and confirmations of more U.S. ground troops being moved to the Middle East, reaching almost 20,000.

• Media Coverage: Frustration that American media gives insufficient attention to what may be the most consequential war since Vietnam.

  • “You would think that would rank above weather, but it doesn't.” — Show Announcer (10:49)

• War Endgame: Stark summary of Iran’s options—either surrender or face decimation.

  • “Either the regime gives Trump what he demands in total, or the United States will unleash hell and take it from them.” — (Referenced Mark Thiessen via hosts, 34:38)

• Strategy and Media Narratives:

  • Analysis of the war not as “aimless,” but as “coercive diplomacy.” The hosts push back on mainstream reporting, citing sources claiming Trump is not seeking an off ramp but is determined to finish the campaign.
  • “Terms first, pressure second, pause third, then renewed pressure from a stronger position continuing until they're either decimated or they surrender.” — Show Announcer (35:09)

• Barksdale Air Force Base Drone Attack: Revelation that the U.S. airbase was temporarily put out of operation by sophisticated drones, possibly Chinese, marking a historical first.

  • “It was the first time a US Air base was temporarily put out of operation in wartime. Something that never happened even in World War II.” — Joe Getty (36:22)
  • Drones described as "far more sophisticated than anything seen in Ukraine."

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6. Anecdotes: Media Rumors, Social Phenomena, and Internet Hysteria

Timestamps: 16:57–18:43

• Erica Kirk Hate & Conspiracy Theories: The hosts marvel at how a “sympathetic” public figure has become a lightning rod for online conspiracy hysteria, with specific reference to anti-Semitic narratives and infighting among online commentators.
  • "It's as if humanity is a single brain, and something's been introduced... that's the media and social internet and conspiracy theorists..." — Joe Getty (18:43)

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7. Transgender Athletes & IOC Ruling

Timestamps: 20:31–21:03

• The hosts celebrate the International Olympic Committee's decision to ban transgender athletes from female categories.
• "Good. On the I.O.C."—Show Announcer (20:38)
• "Because they’re men. Probably."—Joe Getty (20:39)
• Framing this as a turning point and “cover” for other sports organizations.

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8. Sports, Streaming & the Dodgers Dynasty

Timestamps: 12:06–13:44, 21:03–21:56

• Dodgers' superteam discussed as a test-case for billionaire influence in sports—joking that their budget rivals the federal government.
• Debate over whether dynasties are good for sports (“This might be over the top though.” — Joe Getty, 13:24)
• Streaming Anguish: New licensing deals (e.g., Netflix/MLB) drive costs up for fans.
  • "Take a golden goose of pro sports and then just keep beating it with a bat." — Show Announcer (21:33)

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9. AI and the Future of Work & Education

Timestamps: 29:40–32:56

• Concerns about glowing narratives around AI and robot teachers—broad skepticism from the public, contrasted with "perky" media and political presenters.
  • “I personally don't know a single person who doesn't seem to be mostly worried or scared about it.” — Show Announcer (30:58)
• Critique of teachers’ unions and predictions they will resist AI.
• Underlying uncertainty about the direction of education and jobs in a post-AI world.

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10. Societal Mood: Fatalism & Resilience

Timestamps: 44:10–48:12

• Quote of the Day:
  • "The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie." — Mark Twain, cited by Joe Getty (44:10)
• Email from listener Katie in LA details the resilience and humor of Israelis under rocket attack, including apps for bomb shelter matching (!).
• “Yet with all this, they're keeping their creativity and sense of humor.” — Joe Getty (47:57)
• Hosts reflect on why such perseverance might provoke resentment:
  • “I wonder if this attitude is another reason people hate the Jews. The resiliency and creativity that allows them to get through all the horrible.” — Katie in LA, read by the hosts (48:20)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “They live paycheck to paycheck. Let's screw them good and hard because polls show the Republicans will be blamed…” — Joe Getty (06:08)
• “Such a... Just dumb. It's just dumb and dumb and dysfunctional.” — Show Announcer (07:21)
• “All this putting a bunch of social workers in charge... was a disaster.” — Show Announcer (08:43)
• "You would think that would rank above weather, but it doesn't." — Show Announcer (10:49)
• "The Dodgers got a budget fairly roughly similar to the federal government." — Joe Getty (12:26)
• “I personally don't know a single person who doesn't seem to be mostly worried or scared about it [AI].” — Show Announcer (30:58)
• “We must sue God.” — Joe Getty, lampooning California litigiousness (45:57)
• "Take a golden goose of pro sports and then just keep beating it with a bat." — Show Announcer (21:33)
• “The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie.” — Mark Twain, cited by Joe Getty (44:10)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 03:35 — Show officially begins
• 06:08 — Congressional strategy and TSA shutdown impacts
• 07:21 — "Dumb and Dysfunctional" phrase coined
• 08:43 — Willie Brown's diagnosis of San Francisco's decline
• 09:15–10:49 — Middle East war, media coverage frustration
• 12:06 — Dodgers dynasty & pro sports economics
• 16:57–18:43 — Online hysteria about Erica Kirk and internet conspiracy culture
• 20:31–21:03 — IOC bans transgender athletes in female Olympic categories
• 21:03–21:56 — Streaming costs in sports
• 26:35–28:39 — Iran war: objectives and media misreporting
• 29:40–32:56 — AI in education: optimism vs. skepticism
• 33:00–36:22 — Mark Halperin, Mark Thiessen, and war strategies; Barksdale base drone attack news
• 44:10 — Quote of the day: "The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie."
• 47:57 — Israeli app anecdote: resilience during attacks

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Summary

The episode’s central motifs are a scathing critique of U.S. governmental dysfunction (both in Congress and among the parties), alarm over persistent crises (with Iran and in urban America), and exasperation at both real-world and media “dumbness.” The hosts blend gallows humor and seriousness, switch fluidly between politics, culture, technology, and sport, and deliver both sharp analysis and comedic relief.

Frequent callbacks to the audience’s shared frustrations help sustain Armstrong & Getty’s characteristic tone—irreverent, skeptical of “elite” narratives, and always on the hunt for societal absurdities.

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For listeners: This episode is a high-energy, content-rich tour of current events, brushed with both alarm and amusement at the world’s persistent, sometimes mind-boggling, dysfunction.

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[Jack Armstrong]

Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

[Joe Getty]

Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Get ready.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

Friday, live from Studio C. D. Senora. Deep within the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound. And today, to end the week, we're toiling under the title of the show.

[Joe Getty]

First, you look like a military man. Are you on war footing?

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

How are you not on a war footing?

[Joe Getty]

He's wearing an olive drab T shirt and a beanie, looking ready to, you know, throw on the union and do what needs to be done. Huh? Become part of the coalition of the willing. Jack's ready. I salute you, sir.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

They did up the age to enlist to 42 yesterday.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, really?

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

Yeah. Not up to 61, though, which I am so not sure I can be of any help.

[Joe Getty]

I'd be happy to help if I can, but I probably can't. Our title today. Titles. Here's the deal.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

You lose.

[Joe Getty]

That should be the only deal being offered to Iran and. Or if you prefer, IOC says no. Fake chicks and gals.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

Sports fake chicks. Yeah, The IOC with a big announcement yesterday that we talked about. We'll get to more of that later. To your first headline. It's funny, I was just reading in Mark Halpern's newsletter of the day that between Trump and Israel, it's come down to one of two outcomes. Iran surrenders or Iran is decimated. That's basically what you just said.

[Joe Getty]

I've got to admit, I was a little worried. What was it, yesterday or the day before where Trump said, yeah, well, we're talking to the right people. They give us a very nice gift, a very, very valuable gift. And his tone was soft and he's appreciated the flattery and everything. I'm like, oh, my God, no. Because they will. They will do anything. They will press all of his buttons. They've been studying him since he came down the escalator. I hope. Marco. Thank God. Marco is in his ear right so

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

now we're back to practically unconditional surrender, I guess. Either you surrender or we're going to decimate you that you force you to surrender.

[Joe Getty]

So those are your two choices, I hope. Yeah. Cool.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

And looks like the whole TSA thing after 40 some days is over. I didn't fly during that period of time, so it had no effect on me. I think that brutal, does it. It did look brutal. But does the media fly more than the rest of us as a whole? They must or something or. Yeah, because I saw the numbers on how many people, what percentage of Americans would have flown during that period of time?

[Joe Getty]

Oh really?

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

Single digits.

[Joe Getty]

Really? Yeah. Well, yeah, that makes sense.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

Sure.

[Joe Getty]

In a given what, six weeks? Yeah. Interesting. Nonetheless, that's just the non function and the abusiveness of the people from Congress these days. In the Senate it happens to be the Democrats right now. It's just, it's inexcusable. All they do is they look at the polls. Okay, let's see. The Republicans have the House barely. And the Senate, barely. And they have the White House. So they'll be blamed if there's a shutdown. So let's shut it down. Well, we're gonna hurt a hell of a lot of people, including government employees. I mean these TSA guys are not rich. They live paycheck to paycheck. Let's screw them good and hard because polls show the Republicans will be blamed, says Chuck Schumer. It's just disgusting.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

Well, who, what normal sort of voter remembers any of these shutdowns with, with any thoughts really of anything? They just, they come and they go and they're annoying and then they go away and you just think what a mess that is. That's kind of it.

[Joe Getty]

The base, maybe they're just signaling to the base, trying to hold on to his job that we're, we're trying to abolish ice, that we will not fund DHS unless ICE is reformed.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

Okay. People predisposed to already vote the, a certain direction they were going to go that way anyway. I just don't think anything ever is accomplished with these shuts down shutdowns.

[Katie Green]

Nothing.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

It's just. There's no political gain. I don't even know if there's any political loss really. It just like it's just inconvenient for the voters. And then it goes, we go along such, such a. Such a. Just dumb. It's just dumb and dumb and dysfunctional. Yeah, dumb and dysfunctional.

[Joe Getty]

Another powerful Republican has announced he's retiring from the House. He's going off into private life. Capping, I think. Well, capping so far, dozens that have announced that dozens of Congress people and a handful of senators are like, this is stupid. I'm going to go do something else.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

Well, yeah, if you, if you, if you went to Washington, D.C. thinking you're going to do something, then, you know, you get there and realize, oh, okay, that's not what the game is, at least currently. I want to get to this thing. Yesterday, Willie Brown, doing an interview, former mayor of San Francisco, former most powerful politician in California for many, many years and guest on the Armstrong and Getty show many, many, many times, did an interview with Bill O'Reilly in which he explained why San Francisco got ruined in Bill O'Reilly's special, the Decline and Fall of San Francisco. And it's really interesting to hear from one of the most powerful Democrats of the last half century anywhere in the country, really, Willie Brown, about how all this putting a bunch of social workers in charge of all this sort of stuff and everything like that was a disaster.

[Joe Getty]

Right. I'm glad to hear that from Willie. What a fascinating guy, brilliant, charismatic, crooked as a corkscrew.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

I was happy to hear that. So I want to talk about that later. Maybe, maybe we're going to get to

[Joe Getty]

a place where we realize that the,

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

what we've been doing is not working, at least in blue cities and states. Oh, the big breaking news later in the day yesterday that the Pentagon is weighing sending an additional 10,000 ground troops to the Middle East. I don't know what that brings to total two. Do you know of troops that have been talked about over the last couple of weeks? It's getting to be a pretty, pretty big chunk of people.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, we're getting closer to 20,000. Definitely very close to 20,000.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

I think one of the things I'm happy about with the TSA shutdown coming to an end is maybe newscast can focus on what might end up being the most consequential war since Vietnam instead of making it like the third or fourth story every single day. It's shocking to me. I think this is a really big deal. And last night I was looking at my evening newscasts. On one of them it was 10 minutes and the other one, it was 11 minutes into the newscast, a 30 minute newscast before they get around to the war.

[Joe Getty]

As important as the Maduro thing in Venezuela could be in our hemisphere because we shouldn't have hostile communist, fake kleptomaniac regimes right next door. We just shouldn't. We're a superpower that is a tiny fraction of the significance of the Iran deal and it's not being treated that way.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

No, it's not.

[Joe Getty]

I mean I phrase that kind of the opposite of what I meant. But yeah, Iran's coverage should dwarf that which was given to the whole Venezuela thing, which I admit was surprising and interesting and precedent breaking. But yeah, this, this is history changing. This is finally perhaps the reformation of the Middle east after all of these decades. It's just, it's enormous.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

Or there's a possibility, I don't think think this is what's going to happen, but the possibility we have tens of thousands of troops taking fire on the ground in a full on war with a serious country like within days.

[Joe Getty]

That is absolutely possible. Yeah.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

You think?

[Joe Getty]

Or at the very very least we're going to take Carg Island.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

You would think that would rank above weather, but it doesn't.

[Joe Getty]

No. Particularly weather in the New York Metro.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

Yeah, no kidding. Let's start the show officially. We got lots of good stuff today. It's. It's Friday. It's clips of the weekday. It's the day we start drinking daiquiris in the fourth hour. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this. It is Friday, March 27th. We're about out of March, people. The year 2026 where Armstrong and getting. We approve of this program.

[Joe Getty]

I feel bad. Michael and I were talking about what flavor daiquiris and he, he insisted on plantain daiquiris.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

Wow.

[Joe Getty]

I said some things I probably shouldn't have said. I got a little hot. I'm sorry, Michael.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

What an obscure fruit.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I know, I know. Strawberries. No, I'm sorry, I'm starting again. All right, let's begin the show officially according to FCC rules and rags. Here we go at mark. Apparently we're under attack in the homeland.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

Okay, which, which national anthem for opening day was that?

[Joe Getty]

Dodger Dodgers stadium was Keith Williams Jr. Noted vocalist. He sung the anthem many times at ballparks but had a bit of a night apparently. A rough night, man.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

I was watching some of the rollout that the Dodgers did for fans and everything. An opening night. It was quite the spectacle. Of course you got the one of the greatest teams ever assembled. Everybody picking them. The three Pete maybe changing all of pro sports forever and having to come up with some sort of rules so billionaires don't come along and just buy every good player in every sport.

[Joe Getty]

You got a budget fairly roughly similar to the federal government. About the same number. We're going to spend $780 trillion on the Dodgers payroll this year.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

Well, they had the best player in baseball, Shohei Ohtani, you know, playing with the best pitcher in baseball, MVP of last year's World Series, and then a whole bunch of all stars and MVPs and, and they've added people since their repeat last year.

[Joe Getty]

It's 150 games.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

Quite the experiment in pro sports to see if people dig that or not. We'll see. The Dodgers fans certainly dig it. Anyway, we got to get on.

[Joe Getty]

I'm sorry, every, every park around the country when the Dodgers in town, you got to go. Your team's going to lose. But you know, my, my all star

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

team, my take as a casual fan of all sports is people kind of like dynasties, whether rooting for them or against them.

[Joe Getty]

This might be over the top though.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

This could be over the top. Yeah. All dynasties wear out their welcome door. People get sick of it. Patriots, Chiefs, Yankees, Dodgers, Cowboys, Warriors, Lakers, whoever, they wear out their welcome. People like I want something different, but we'll see how that works out. We got lots of stuff to talk about today. Katie's headlines on the way. We got clips of the week, so stay here.

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discipline to get sucked into these various online wormholes now and then. But last night I went down the rabbit hole of Erica Kirk hate. Oh yeah, that is one of the strangest phenomenons of my lifetime. And I don't know if that's just going to be the future of the world. Could you come up with a more compelling figure, a more, you know, sympathetic figure than Erica Kirk? And, and what happened in her life and the way it's she's been turned into this villain by so many people. It's just crazy.

[Joe Getty]

And as always, an agent of the Jews. Yeah, I. I sent Jack this video of this woman who claimed to be a CIA veteran or something. And it was just a classic, you know, describing an interaction then with the raised ey. And that's not a coincidence. That's the way an asset behaves. An intelligence asset. Take it from Me. And then another. And then they were at the same party. Do you think that was a coincidence? That's exactly how an asset behaves. And I just saw the people who are prone to believing that sort of thing just being pulled along like a bass with the hook through.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

Well, even Joe Rogan the other day, you know, I heard Erica Kirk, she's got a penis. Joe Rogan said. It sounded completely serious. And he said, is she a crazy bee or what? Used the word. And then they showed videos of her. Look at her eyes. Who does that with their eyes? And it's just, I don't know what this whole thing is. And then trying to make a giant conspiracy we should all be afraid of out of it. I just. It might be no country for Old Men. I might just not fit into the modern world. I don't even understand what's happening.

[Joe Getty]

It's mental illness. It's as if humanity is a single brain and we're all nodes in that brain. We're all neurons in that brain. And something's been introduced into our body chemistry that our brain can't handle, and that's the media and social Internet and conspiracy theorists and that sort of thing. It's possible if you draw in that poison, it will ruin you as an individual node. And maybe the whole brain, I don't know, hasn't ruined me. I just think you're all nuts. Anyway, let's figure out who's reporting what. It's lead story with Katie Green.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

Katie?

[Katie Green]

All right, the big headlines. Associated Press. Trump said he will sign an emergency order to pay TSA agents. ABC Senate passes bill to fund all parts of DHS except for ICE and parts of CBP and NBC. Trump says he will order DHS to immediately pay TSA officers as partial shutdown drags on.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

So is that what got the Senate moving when Trump said he would sign an executive order because it was going to look like Trump came to the rescue?

[Joe Getty]

I don't know.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

I don't know either.

[Katie Green]

From the Washington Post. US Uses hundreds of Tomahawk missiles on Iran, alarming some at the Pentagon.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

How does Iran continue to have so many missiles and rockets and everything like that? I hope we get to talk to Mike Lyons today, if not today, on Monday. Man, oh, man, we have beaten the S out of them, as Trump said yesterday, and they still have the ability

[Joe Getty]

to fire off so much stuff. Yeah, I understand the concern that we've got to have stockpiles, but it's funny, it's often presented in the media as we can't use the weapons because we have to have weapons. Why do we want to have weapons? Well, to use them, but that's what we're doing. Yeah. Well, then we won't have them. All right.

[Katie Green]

They're exhausting.

[Joe Getty]

Yes.

[Katie Green]

From Reuters. Transgender athletes banned from female category at Olympic events.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

Good. On the I.O.S.

[Joe Getty]

because they're men. Probably. Yes.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

I, I hope this should give cover to every state or high school in the, in the country or the world. Well, we're just going to follow the Olympic rules.

[Joe Getty]

It does give them cover when the activist lunatics try to hurt them. Because that's what activists as lunatics do. They try to hurt you if you disagree with them. Good for. Good for the IOC. We've got more on that to come.

[Katie Green]

ESPN, MLB is 2026 opener highlights. Growing shift to streaming which is costing fans more.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

What does that mean? Why does it cost me more?

[Katie Green]

Well, for example, like Netflix's price is just. I think they're either going up today or went up yesterday because they got this deal with the Major League Baseball.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. More and more games is, are on subscription services a lot of places.

[Katie Green]

Yeah, I think I saw yesterday there was a game on Peacock or something.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

Take, take a golden goose of pro sports and then just keep beating it with a bat. Since it's baseball, beat it with a bat.

[Joe Getty]

To give it more goals. Yes.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

To make, to make more money. Yes.

[Joe Getty]

Yes.

[Katie Green]

Speaking of streaming from the Financial times, Netflix earned $45.2 billion in revenue during 2025 and projects 51 billion in 2026.

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Wow.

[Joe Getty]

I almost never watch anything on Netflix.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

I think we do weekly.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Katie Green]

From the New York Post. Cocaine fueled sharks are on the prowl in the Caribbean and scientists blame partying tourists wrists.

[Joe Getty]

Wow.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

Throwing cocaine in the water or yeah, I guess dropping it.

[Joe Getty]

I don't know.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

Is it right?

[Joe Getty]

Stay tuned.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

Isn't it a little too expensive to throw to Shark?

[Joe Getty]

I can't believe you're worried about the economics of it when we have cocaine fueled sharks swimming in our waters. Good lord.

[Katie Green]

Missing the big point, Jack.

[Joe Getty]

Biting you, it'll just talk you to death.

[Katie Green]

He finds one in three women say being female has held them back and Gen Z says they feel it the most.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

Oh my God.

[Katie Green]

Barf.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

Wow.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Katie Green]

And finally, the Babylon be mysterious investor Pansy Nalosi makes millions on oil trade minutes before Trump's Iran announcement.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

Yeah. There's a lot of talk about trying to crack down on this prop betting, particularly around legislation and events around the world that, you know, various politicians could vote on or make decisions on. I don't know how they're going to try to get it out of out of our system, but we'll have to talk about that. Lots of people introducing rules to try to stop that. It was bad this week.

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So good.

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I got it.

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No, I got it. Seriously. I insist. I insisted first. Don't be silly. You don't be silly.

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Okay, Rock Paper, scissors for it.

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Rock, paper scissors. Shoot.

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No.

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my best skin ever at 45. Give me a theme song and a best skincare award. Cause it feels like. Like this right there. That's Farmhouse fresh skin.

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And everyone asks how the best skincare is. Farmhouse fresh. And the award is you. Your best you yet. Go to farmhousefreshskincare.com and wake up to glow. That deserves a theme song.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

Trump is not going wobbly on his original plan to wipe out Iran's capability to continue to be the number one terror state and get nuclear weapons. That is all the reporting I'm reading. Okay. From Honest Brokers. We got to get into more of that coming up.

[Joe Getty]

Excellent. Just since I'm thinking about it, we just got a great idea from listener Ed, who suggested we look up Mike Rowe and chat with him about the coming of AI.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

Oh, that's a good one.

[Joe Getty]

And the nature of work in college and blue collar work and that sort of thing. Yeah, we ought to see if we can connect with Mike. Love to do that. Good idea, Ed. It's the Friday tradition beloved by all. Let's take a fond look back at the week that was its cow. Clips of the week. Clips of the week.

[Jack Armstrong]

We're now three weeks into the Iran war, which started with the death of one Ayatollah Khomeini and the appointment of another ayatollah Khomeini. Khomeini 2. But one's dead now.

[Joe Getty]

This thing's gonna be settled very soon.

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The Marines.

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[Joe Getty]

What makes you trust them? I don't trust anybody. I don't trust you.

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I would not believe the Iranian regime and never I never. In all the work I've ever done

[Joe Getty]

with the Iranian regime, they do nothing but lie through their teeth. We're going to end up with settling this. Otherwise, we just keep bombing our little hearts out.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

Sometimes you have to escalate to de escalate.

[Joe Getty]

But I really hope the American people

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will be with him because he is doing this to make the whole world safer.

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We are an idea that threatens Iran, that threatens this regime, because we are open, we are progressive, we are tolerant,

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we're a vibrant economy.

[Joe Getty]

And, you know, they're affected. The amazing thing is we don't need the hormone strait. We don't need it at all. We don't. We have so much oil. The street ban is Coming your way. And we are bringing hope over fear,

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

peace over Lido will provide a personalized experience adaptive to the needs of each student. You must be happy.

[Caller or Guest]

I'm very happy.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

The Ayatollah's dead.

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I'm so.

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What? Who.

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What? What is that?

[Joe Getty]

Who the is Ayatollah?

[Katie Green]

This lesbian has had plenty of girlfriends with penises.

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I can't explain that.

[Joe Getty]

You know, a person living like a

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rat, it pisses me off.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

That's why I was like, what y' all doing?

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Finna tell them to clean up?

[Joe Getty]

We cannot incarcerate our way out of viol. We've already tried that. It is racist, it is immoral, it is unholy.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

Through the perilous fight what so proudly we hail.

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We're so gallantly streaming.

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It's clips of the week.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

Lothair.

[Joe Getty]

I'd forgotten all about the subterranean sewer junkies of Los Angeles.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

People living in the sewers.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

So Melania's speech about the robots. How do I understand the tech companies? They're. They're for profit businesses. For profit businesses trying to convince everybody that this new world is going to be great. But I understand all the other people that are willing to present the new robot world, the new AI robot world and everything like that in. In glowing terms all the time. Because I don't know. I personally don't know a single person who doesn't seem to be mostly worried or scared about it. So I'm just surprised that so many people like Melania Trump, but lots of other people present. And then teachers will be able to come into your home. The robot teachers and every single person I know of, I've. Every conversation I've ever had about this sort of stuff. Stuff talks about it in horrific terms. So what. What pushes the. This is going to be fantastic from, from some corners. Do you have any idea. Are they just. Is it because the. The government's. The betting on the financial windfall of it? I don't know. But the real, real people are not reacting to all this robot stuff with, oh, this is going to be great. When robots are doing everything.

[Joe Getty]

Maybe somebody. Some folks. Because Melania is very bright. Maybe she just lacks that whole, I don't know, bitter pessimism or ability to see the. Well, wait a minute, what will that. Cause I feel like be so anxious to learn if they can't have a job.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

And with like chuckling news anchors, it's just always. And then soon the robots will be able to teach us and, you know, wash our cars and work in the kitchens and Restaurants, that's fantastic. And weather. I mean, I just. That's not the way people are reacting. That's what I'm saying to Milan. News anchors and other people, normal people are not reacting to this with overwhelming positivity, based on my anecdotal evidence.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, yeah, I liked the spirit of her speech and because she's really into education and kids, all kids, poor kids, kids of all, you know, hues of skin color. Getting access to serious education, which I think is a wonderful thing to aspire to. But if the economy is fundamentally not just restructured, just reinvented by AI and computers and robots, what are the kids learning and for what purpose? I suppose, you know, you might as well say, well, we don't know, but let's default toward developing this stuff because it can't hurt. I don't know.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

Well, that's fine, but I don't need to default toward. It's going to be awesome. Without any skeptical questions.

[Joe Getty]

Right.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

I just don't get that. And I gotta believe the teachers unions of America are not going to welcome, with open arms robots that can be knowledgeable in every subject and adjust to every child and everyone can have one in their home. They're not going to think that's awesome.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, no, because they have no interest in the children's interests. They exist to extract dues from their membership and then to use those dues to influence politicians so they get more dues from their membership. It's all money and it's only money.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

So maybe I'll get to this in more detail a little bit later, but I was reading Mark Halperin's news roundup today, and he was going on about how a lot of mainstream media is just defying what the President says and facts on the ground about the whole Iran thing and presenting it as a clear disaster from the get go. We're, we're mired in a, you know, in a, in a swamp of a disastrous war and Trump's looking for an off ramp. When Mark Halperin says everything Trump says and all his reporting about people close to Trump say it's the exact opposite. He's as committed as ever to his goals and it's going really, really well. So I thought that was interesting. This, all this is a misreading of Trump's intentions and the facts on the ground to say he can't achieve these goals, which he uses a specific article from the New York Times to say, what are they talking about? But here's Mark Thiessen in the Washington Post who has sources. Also, speculation is flying that President Donald Trump, buffeted by rising gas prices and domestic political concerns, is desperate for an off ramp and looking for a deal with Iran to end the war. These leaks, whispers and rumors are wrong. While others may be panicking, I know from well placed sources that Trump has never been more determined to see this military campaign through to completion. The message to Iran, and this is Mark Halpern's reporting from other sources. Mark Thiessen's got his own sources. The message to Iran is clear and this is what he's going to stay with. Either the regime gives Trump what he demands in total, or the United States will unleash hell and take it from them. These are the only two options that are being discussed.

[Joe Getty]

I've got to admit, I, I of all people, somewhat naively had assumed. I'm, I'm. I'm examining my own feelings now, Jack. I had naively assumed that when it came to war and life and death, the funhouse mirror of the American media would at least get flattened out a little bit because it's so enormously important and impactful. And again, people are being hurt and dying and, and our country's military is involved. But no, no. They kept calling plays from the same playbook. I hate them.

[Katie Green]

Yeah.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

It's interesting though. So this guy writing in substack. I'm gonna have to do a little research on who he is. I don't know his name. He's got a Middle Eastern sounding name. But this was recommended as the most important thing to read today. His opinion piece anyway. He said the reading by the mainstream media is wrong on this. The war is not absence of absent of strategy. It is coercive diplomacy. Terms first, pressure, second pause, third, then renewed pressure from a stronger position continuing until they're either decimated or they surrender.

[Joe Getty]

Well described. Yeah, yeah. Speaking of, this is the biggest or best or whatever friend of the Armstrong and Getty show sent this my way. This should be the biggest story in the country right now. Now, Barksdale Air Force Base is the headquarters for our B52 nuclear bombers. It's where Bush sheltered on 9 11. And sophisticated drones, far more sophisticated than anything seen in Ukraine and well beyond Iranian capabilities, attacked Louisiana's Barksdale bomber base. It was the first time a US Air base was temporarily put out of operation in wartime. Something that never happened even in World War II.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

Did not owe that story.

[Joe Getty]

This is not. I hate that. Oh, here it is. Here's the link. It's from Asia Times, which I think is a Fairly substantial news organization. Yeah, I hadn't heard this at all. It was attacked by drone swarms during the week of March 9th. Okay, so it was a couple of weeks ago. I do remember hearing about that. It disrupted B52H aircraft launches in support of Operation Epic Fury against Iran. First time U.S. air base out of operation, even World War II. Each wave forced the Air Force to halt operations and send its personnel to shelters. Let's see, what do we. Drone wave lasted around four hours each day.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

That's really interesting. I'd like to know more about that. And of course we certainly wouldn't be amplifying that story as our military wouldn't be anyway for obvious reasons.

[Joe Getty]

A little more description of the drones and why they were so sophisticated after a word from our friends at Simplisafe. Speaking of sophisticated, you know a lot of your really popular brands of like doorbell cameras, they give you an alert, hey, there's somebody at your front door and you're in a meeting, you're on an airplane, you're asleep. What are you supposed to do about it? Simplisafe has super sophisticated AI watching for you that alerts live monitoring agents who take control.

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Just named best home security system of 2026 again by US News and World Report. Right now, you good people get 50% off your new SimpliSafe system at simplisafe.com Armstrong that's simplisafe.com Armstrong there's no safe like Simplisafe. So a description of these drones. The drones themselves may have been autonomous or semi autonomous and operated in ways suggesting the drones were equipped with multiple sensors that directed the behavior of each drone over the base and in response to attempts at jamming. In a nutshell, the drones that operated over Barksdale are far more sophisticated than anything seen in Ukraine, where drones are used heavily and well beyond Iranian capabilities. China maybe. Nobody's sure. We'll have to keep an eye on that.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

Are we going to keep an eye on the major controversy that is Trump's name is going to end up on our currency? Oh my God, he's just like Hitler or something. According to Ms. Now I saw this morning. I don't know. I didn't listen to the whole story,

[Joe Getty]

but mshi, am I allowed to spell swear words on the air? What's the FCC say about that?

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

That's a good question. I don't you think after being in broadcasting my entire life I would know that? Can I spell a swear word?

[Joe Getty]

I mean, I don't think the FCC does anything at this point.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

I don't think so either. It should be disbanded. We should get our money back.

[Joe Getty]

Yes, indeed. Yeah.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

Do you think we probably can or probably can't?

[Joe Getty]

Well, because I would like to from now till the end of our careers, spell Ms. Now is mshi. You know, I can pause a second, then say T. But having paused, it's okay to use those letters out. There's having. Seriously, folks, this is so interesting. Looking at the history of swearing and how it changes according to societies and language and stuff like that. The idea that if I were to utter those letters of the Alphabet in order, it was some sort of magic incantation out of Harry Potter and people's hair would fall out or people would go blind in their left eye or whatever.

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[Joe Getty]

Like it has some sort of magical powers. It's really very silly.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

Do you know something about this, Katie?

[Katie Green]

According to the interwebs, spelling a swear word on the radio is forbidden according to the good old fcc.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, well, they can F you themselves.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

Oh, boy.

[Katie Green]

Nice working with you guys. You know, I had heard that you

[Joe Getty]

could do it, but you have to allow 30 seconds between each letter so it's very slow. Oh, well, that'd be entertaining.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

We'll look into these and other important questions to all of you coming up on the show. We're going to talk to Mike Lyons a little bit later about all those soldiers we got sending we're sending to the Middle east and what they might be doing and what sort of resistance they could face. So we'll get to that in hour three. Got Mailbag?

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Next Armstrong and Getty.

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So good.

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I got it.

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No, I got it. Seriously, I insist.

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Oh, don't be silly. You don't be silly.

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Okay. Rock, paper scissors for it.

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Rock, paper scissors.

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[Show Announcer / Narrator]

The long lines at the airport are soon to be over. They got a deal to end the tsa. Blah blah blah. So good news if you're traveling this

[Joe Getty]

week again having resolved whatever stupidity they were pretending to argue over. Here's your freedom loving quote of the day from the great Mark Twain, sent along by David Alert listener David thank you, David. The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie. See the Internet mailbag. The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

Or kind of in a similar vein, it's easy to believe a lie if you want it to be true. Oh, which is really, really hard to fight in your own head.

[Joe Getty]

Yes. Let's see. Drop us a note. Mailbagarmstrongetty.com we'll start with Aaron, who includes a link that would take too long to explain, but it has to do with gender bending madness. He says, I've resolved to correcting people when they use gender gendered language. Example, someone refers to a surgery woman on hormones as he I say it's she. It's 2026. This does two things highlight not only that it's over and the jig is up, but also how short lived the scene actually was.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

Well, we got Bob Costas later coming out and saying the IOC was correct. If Bob Costas is now on that side of it now, you know the the jig is up.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. On the topic of the social media trial and addiction, that sort of thing, Williams from Beautiful Clovis writes Clovis, California I love to go fishing, but the thing is, every time I go I catch a fish or two. The fact that there are more fish in the lake is making it addictive. Who do I go to to sue God for maliciously placing more fish in the lake? Why this is oppresses so much fraud. Why does God keep making these delicious fish reproduce? As a Californian, I believe it's my duty to sue. Anyway, love your show. Keep up a good work. Keep up the good emails.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

William thanks. Endless scrolling on Instagram. Endless fish in the lake. There's all kinds of way that these businesses trap you.

[Joe Getty]

We must sue God. JT and Livermore with a great thought about robot umpires Baseball is the last sport that needs robot umpires. Unlike most all major sports, baseball season, even its playoffs, are built around the notion that on any given day the worst team in baseball can beat the best team in baseball. It's why the season is 162 games long. It's why the playoffs feature best of seven and best of five and best of seven series. In other words, the structure of baseball already counts for the randomness of the occasional bad cause it does. It's yeah, well, he's absolutely right. A dominant great Basketball team will beat a terrible basketball team almost every single game. And baseball, not so much. No, there's much more randomness to the game in this wonderful email from Katie in la. You have to hand it to the Israelis. Our media doesn't cover the extent of the damage and death in Israel. With the recent bombings by Iran, the Iranians are now sending cluster bombs which are getting through the Iron Dome, causing tremendous damage. Scores of people have been killed even inside shelters. They're constantly running back and forth into shelters and safe rooms. Soldiers and reservists are exhausted. Most people aren't working. Level of stress and psychological damage to the country is yet to be fully realized. Yet with all this, they're keeping their creativity and sense of humor. Some apps that have been recently developed and are very popular in Israel. Do I have time to shower? You enter your location. The app calculates the probability of getting a siren within the next half hour. So you don't have to worry about running the shelter with shampoo in your hair. There's bomb shelter locator. Even offline, you can find the nearest shelter wherever you are. Shelter Leaderboard calculates the number of hours spent in shelters and creates leaderboards based on location and sirens data. This one's been around since October 7th, but it's still genius. Before any siren is sounded, you get a text message to let you know it's coming. This helps reduce jumpiness when you hear sirens like police and ambulance and that sort of thing. And you know, okay, there's the air raid. I knew it was kind of gonna come. Gives you a chance to head for the shelter. And Katie's favorite hooked scan, a QR code as you enter the bomb shelter and you'll get matched with other singles in the bomb shelter with you. She says go ahead.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

Did you see the video of the rocket hitting in some town and the car flipping up in the air yesterday? God, I can't imagine living like that.

[Joe Getty]

She says. I wonder if this attitude is another reason people hate the Jews. The resiliency and creativity that allows them to get through all the horrible. She signs off addicted to your show, even though it's the most depressing show on the radio. Thank you, Katie in la. Yes, it is.

[Show Announcer / Narrator]

We're trying to fix that. We've got more on the way. If you missed a segment, get the podcast. Armstrong and Yeti on demand.

[Jack Armstrong]

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[Jack Armstrong]

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