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Jack Armstrong
Coming up later this hour. I watched Mark Halperin's newscast yesterday like I do most afternoons. He was incensed over the Jill Biden clip and the news's handling of it and where he thinks the CBS interview is probably going and the fact that nobody has owned up to what he calls the biggest cover up in media history.
Joe Getty
Love.
Jack Armstrong
And we'll get into that a little, play a little clip of that and talk about it a little bit later this hour.
Joe Getty
But here's the headline of the day for you. AI startup says it will pay people $2,000 a month to pleasure themselves how much? Two grand a month. I mean, it's. You can't live on it, but it's walking around money and.
Jack Armstrong
Is there a website or what?
Joe Getty
It's an AI startup. Jokes to follow. Stay with us.
Jack Armstrong
I'm applying, so I need to.
Joe Getty
Oh, boy. I'll bring you the story later with nice words. Okay. It will not be explicit because I am a gentleman. I wanted to follow up very quickly on the Victor Davis Hanson piece I was sharing with you last hour. His last sentence or two are worth mentioning. And then we'll move on to Russia. In short, the telltale sign of antisemitism is not necessarily opposition to Israel or what it does. It is instead an endless fixation on Israel's supposed crimes when far greater documented horrors elsewhere never merit a word. That's a great standard for what is. Anti Semitism.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, it really is.
Joe Getty
Moving along to the situation with Russia and Ukraine coming up. Growing organs and tiny pigs. Stay with us. I'm just gonna hit you with a handful of headlines. Europe is starting to think Putin will expand the war beyond Ukraine. Russia is making very threatening statements about the Baltic states while carrying out massive strikes on Kyiv. And the Euros are damned serious about it. Here's a quote from Sweden's Defense Minister. The security environment in Europe has deteriorated during the last 24 months. And we see a greater inclination from the Russian side to take greater operational risks in their hybrid operations. Moving up to kinetic elements, blah, blah, blah. They are serious. Another headline. Russian drone crashes into apartment building in NATO member Romania. Several people injured. Drew fierce condemnation from the alliance. The NATO alliance stoking fears that Russia will attempt to spread violence beyond Ukraine. The Romanians scrambled fighter jets and tried to shoot it down, etc.
Jack Armstrong
Do you think it was on purpose or an accident?
Joe Getty
The NATO Secretary General, Mark Ruta, is calling it reckless behavior. Last night showed yet again that the implications of their illegal war of aggressions don't stop at the border.
Jack Armstrong
That's.
Joe Getty
That's a very diplomatic statement. Could have been an accident. I always. What's the opposite of giving someone the benefit of the doubt, giving them the benefit of the suspicion? I always think Putin is probing to find weakness and to test reactions. It's as old as the militaries. You make a mistake, quote, unquote, see how the other side reacts and collect the intelligence thereby for when you're actually going to attack.
Jack Armstrong
Here's another headline we have like latest on this story. So our deputy ambassador to the United Nations, Tammy Bruce, of course it's a radio host that Trump named the ambassador to. But anyway, where's my ambassadors called Russia's recent mass strikes on Ukraine, including the use of that IBM missile to go into Ukraine, inexplicable, dangerous, in a barbaric escalation, and also condemned the reckless use of whatever rocket or missile went into Romania last night. There are several people. They got hurt. It hit an apartment complex. I mean, that's just like a. You can watch a video. It's all over the place. Very modern city at night, city streets quiet, people asleep. And all of a sudden, a freaking rocket hits a building right from Russia. Wow.
Joe Getty
Here's an article from Estonia. How a tiny Baltic nation is preparing for a possible war with Russia. Across Estonia, which is on NATO's eastern border with Russia, preparing for potential wars become a part of everyday life. They mentioned a large university in the country's east. City planners conducted drills on mass evacuations and sudden attacks on city hall, setting up emergency shelters. School teachers are given specialized crisis training and emergency supplies with radios, first aid kits, portable stoves. And young men across the country are training in military maneuvers and snipering and sniping, I guess not, not like being bitchy to your friends and relatives, sniping, but, you know, using a gun to shoot people from a distance. They are dead serious in Estonia. One final headline before we get to the tiny pigs growing Vladimir Putin's organs. This from the WaPo. After a brutal winter, Ukrainian drones are breaking Russian defenses. Ba, ba, ba. In the war against Ukraine, they talk about the dozens of operators flying thousands of drones from underground command centers that look more like tech startups than a forward bunker, and the unbelievable damage they're doing. And they reset some new numbers about the casualties, the number of men Russia is losing and how at this rate, they will have to do a generalized mobilization, a mass draft of young men very, very soon. And that will be greeted very, very badly in Russia. So things are looking dark for Russia, better for Ukraine, and Europe is well aware that Putin. Oh, I'm sorry, I almost left out the most important part. How can Putin justify a general mobilization slash draft to Russia, NATO, because he's at war with NATO.
Jack Armstrong
NATO attacks him, NATO attacks Russia.
Joe Getty
That's how he does it. So he's going to provoke conflict with some of the the Baltic states or who knows, Romania, maybe
Jack Armstrong
his cold, cold, tiny pig heart perhaps. Tell you about all the tiny pigs and the organs and stuff right after this.
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Jack Armstrong
How much is Putin worth? Hard to say, but certainly hundreds of billions of dollars. And he's not the first billionaire to become obsessed with health and become a little paranoid and all that sort of stuff. See Howard Hughes and, and others throughout history because you got everything, you know, and you're just thinking, God, I just. Last thing I want is to have a heart attack or my, you know, liver give out or whatever the heck it is. Oh yeah.
Joe Getty
There are a handful of tech titans whose names you're probably familiar with who are obsessed with this stuff right now.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's one thing that this article in the Wall Street Journal mentions that it's very popular among your Sam Altman's and all those sorts of people with all their money and they're, they're spending lots of money and all kinds of different longevity this and longevity that. And why wouldn't you? I would too, if I had endless money. I mean, what's more important than that? What are you gonna buy a 15th house feeling good for as long as you can. But in Russia, Putin's quest. I'm reading now from the Wall Street Journal, Putin's quest to stave off decline is now a state priority. He's Turning the whole country toward it. Relying on methods as wide ranging as organ printing, harvesting mini pigs and exposure to ultra low temperatures. I don't know why you gotta do that. Last month, Russia's government announced that scientists are developing a gene therapy treatment aimed at slowing cellular aging. Wow, would that be cool? As part of a new health preservation technology, Putin's 26 billion dollar longevity initiative. I'm glad that country is willing to spend their money on this.
Joe Getty
Well, Putin is that country, he is the government.
Jack Armstrong
So yeah, they're willing to if, man, if they could come up with a way to slow cellular aging. And nobody quite understands why we age the way we do anyway, why ourselves. Are all your, all your body cells get replaced like every 18 months or something like that? Why don't they get replaced with by new fresh cells and you stay the same age? Why do you have to get older?
Joe Getty
Which is why I'm in favor of draining the blood of the young and injecting it into myself, as, you know,
Jack Armstrong
guarantee, if Putin's doing that. Russian state scientists appointed by Putin have focused on two key technologies. Bioprinting or 3D printing Living tissue and xeno transport. Transplantation, or growing human organs inside of mini pigs. A porcine breed. Porcine, Is that where the word pork comes from?
Joe Getty
Correct. Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
So why did we change it from a C to a K? Because porcine is with a C and
Joe Getty
pork is with a K. It's the mysteries of language, Jack. Back to Putin and his mini pigs. Anyway, so why mini pigs is that? Because I think like big pigs would
Jack Armstrong
be, this particular porcine breed is even more genetically compatible to humans than the regular pigs that we do it on.
Joe Getty
So there you go, that's the sizzling bacon of truth right there.
Jack Armstrong
Russian scientists working with government agencies claim to have bioprinted human cartilage tissue, a mouse thyroid gland, with the aim of achieving human organ replacement by 2030.
Joe Getty
You know, as an old guy, I talked to other old guys and, and one buddy of mine's got to get a knee replacement because he's got no cartilage. And he was talking to his orthopedic surgeon about how in the world can we have artificial heart valves?
Jack Armstrong
We got artificial hearts. Cartilage is just a slab of just junk that pads a joint.
Joe Getty
How do we not have effective artificial cartilage? And the surgeon's like, yeah, you're right, we just don't.
Jack Armstrong
And they're trying to go the real stuff in a pig. A mini pig, Cute little mini pig.
Joe Getty
Bio printed human cartilage. I Don't even know what that means.
Jack Armstrong
So what I think is interesting is people often knock the, you know, immortal. Immortality is going to be impossible to. Or way far off of immortality. Okay, we probably are way far off of immortality, or it'll be impossible. But lots of people die because their heart gave out, their liver gave out, their kidneys. Quick. If you can replace whatever bad organ takes you out, sure. Obviously that's going to increase your chance of living longer by a lot. Right there.
Joe Getty
Right, right. It's.
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Jack Armstrong
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Joe Getty
It's like a car. You don't junk the car because the distributor went.
Jack Armstrong
And they didn't mention hearts there. But I got to think they're working on hearts and heart disease. Still the number one killer of people anywhere.
Joe Getty
Yeah, Yeah. I read the other day that Putin's daughter is one of the leaders in this effort, and I saw a picture of her. A hottie, as you might expect, because, you know, Putin gets with models and barrel ballerinas and frankly, whoever he says he's going to get with. But boy, man, she's got a face that you just know sooner or later is going to be looming over you with a big knife in the night. I mean, oh, beautiful, but a femme fatale. She looks mean as a snake.
Jack Armstrong
You just get a bullet in the back of your head someday.
Joe Getty
Right when she's tired of toying with you. Yeah, yeah, that's fun. That's why you got to work hard on those manly arts, fellas. Don't let her down. Okay, Everybody has a rough night. No, you're not allowed one.
Jack Armstrong
Putin's a horrible guy. I hope he dies today. I hope he has a heart attack and dies today before he gets his pig heart. But at least they're spending money on something that might benefit everybody.
Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
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For the first time, non whites are set to become a majority in the United States by 2050. On the bright side, that means more khakis for me. Yeah, no lines at L.L.
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Jack Armstrong
That's pretty funny. So that's Greg Gutfeld and show he has on Fox.
Joe Getty
I'm used to. I'm used to hearing when somebody sets that up, non whites will be the Yay. Everybody claps because, like the trained seals they are.
Jack Armstrong
I did something about diversity. I'm supposed to be in favor of cactus. So weird to clap for that or not clap for. I mean, it's just demographics. Yay. Idiots. So Greg Gutfeld had as his guest last night maybe the most interesting politician in America right now outside of Trump, Spencer Pratt, running for mayor in Los Angeles. And a lot of people saying he's got Trump vibes. He just has that thing. I don't know if it's a coincidence that he was a reality show star or that's got something to do with it or not. I have no idea. Or if he just has the gene.
Joe Getty
He has the gene. He has the instincts for getting people's attention. Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
But here's a little of him on Greg Gutfeld last night. Spencer, you're on a roll.
Joe Getty
You're surging in the polls.
Jack Armstrong
Do you think your message is actually resonating among the people? Not just online, but. But people are finally hearing it.
Parent 1
This is my favorite thing. The Internet says they're like, he's so big on the Internet, but is he big in the streets? Yes. The people I'm surging with are the people having to step over the naked drug addicts and step into human poop to get their $20 matcha. Those are the people that I'm surging with. The moms across Los Angeles who have to use their strollers around fentanyl needles and naked drug addict zombies with machetes that maybe will chop a limb off. Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
Well, as we saw in San Francisco, you can reach a limit, even with progressives, to where they think, I don't want to live like this anymore. And Spencer Pratt has a good ad. I don't know if you've seen this one going where it's a bunch of ladies doing yoga in a yoga studio. Studio. And they're all whispering to each other. Are you voting for Spencer, Brad? I'm voting for Spencer. But it's. It's kind of like with Trump where it was like, you know, A lot of people might not want to say it out loud, but they wanted something new and different talking back in 2016. So here's a little more. The silent voter. You have celebrities that are now coming out in support of you, but they will deny it, won't they?
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Jack Armstrong
He does have Trump vibes because he says the opposite of what all the trained politicians coached by their, you know, professionals say in those instances.
Joe Getty
Right, right.
Jack Armstrong
We're a big tent here and we welcome everyone from the. From the Main street to Wall street and blah, you know, that sort of crap. I don't want celebrity endorsements.
Joe Getty
Right. Yeah, well. And I just love that he's a dude who's fed up and is saying, who else is fed up? We need so much more of that in the progressive cities.
Jack Armstrong
Let's jam in this last one, Michael.
Parent 1
The problem with a low turnout election is people. You need to activate them to vote. And national media makes it more exciting. And it's a big deal. They're talking about it all over the country. I gotta go put my ballot in the mailbox. And so that's why I'm here, because initially it's local, local, local. But I'm realizing the more locals I talk to, they're like, oh, how do you vote? Where do you vote? I'm like, oh, my God, how the socialists win. Because they have. They go ballot harvest and they vote.
Joe Getty
I like his willingness to mock voters. Where do I vote? How do I vote?
Jack Armstrong
Well, the votes are just a couple of days away, and then they'll pick the top two, and it'll probably be him running against Karen Bass, and then you're going to see the entire Democratic machine turned against him.
Joe Getty
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
Wow.
Joe Getty
Wow.
Jack Armstrong
That'll be fun to watch. The last several months of the actual election between the two of them is going to be something to watch.
Joe Getty
I want desperately for him to win, but the fact that he is as strong as he is, at least that's a step in the right direction.
Jack Armstrong
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one of the democratic candidates is Senator Joseph Biden. Have you seen the problem he's been having? He went around and made a speech and apparently he quoted a I think it was a British politician took his speech and kind of paraphrased it as his own. And then the press got on him and then he was charged also with taking part of Bobby Kennedy's speeches. And Biden says not to worry. He reassured his staff. He said, we have nothing to fear but fear itself.
Jack Armstrong
If you're old enough, you recognize that voice as Johnny Carson making fun of Joe Biden almost 40 years ago because that was the 88 presidential election with
Joe Getty
idiotic music playing over it because all Internet videos must have that.
Jack Armstrong
I don't know why that is, but I know almost 40 years ago they're making fun of Joe Biden. Anyway, so we played this yesterday and perhaps you've heard it by now, but we can play it again. This is Dr. Jill Biden, Joe Biden's wife's got a book coming out next week, My View from the East Wing, or whatever the hell it's called, which obviously going to be full of crap based on just this one answer in the interview here. This is the only piece of the interview that's going to air Sunday morning on CBS that they put out so far as a trailer here.
Dr. Jill Biden (clip)
Were you horrified as you saw it unfold? I wasn't horrified. I was frightened because I had never ever seen Joe like that before or since? Never or since? Yes. Or since. I've never seen him like that. Never? No. What happened? I don't know what happened. I mean, as I watched it, I thought, oh my God, he's having a stroke. And it scared me to death
Jack Armstrong
talking about the debate. And. I know I'm going to be so angry watching that interview. The way they handle it. There's not a chance there's any pushback on that based on just the way the reporter section acted right there. You'd never seen that before? As opposed to saying, I'd seen it before multiple times.
Joe Getty
Yeah. Are you kidding or. Well, then why did you drag him around to nine different campaign stops if you were afraid he'd had a stroke? What medical exams were done?
Jack Armstrong
Here's a little of Mark Halperin from his TV show yesterday, who was beside himself with anger. He went on and on and on. But here's just like a minute of him after he saw the clip.
Mark Halperin
And I'll just take you back. Some people might wonder, well, Mark, why are you still talking about this old story of the COVID up of Joe Biden's mental decline? The reason I talk about it, besides the fact that it is, I believe the biggest media scandal in American history is because my colleagues in the media continue to be part of the conspiracy of silence about This, I don't, I don't, I don't really understand it. And that's not just like a rhetorical throwaway line. There was a, a conspiracy of silence. People who covered the White House, people who had C SPAN subscriptions saw Joe Biden's mental decline. I told you that I saw it in 2017 with my own eyes in a, in a public event. He did. And I'm outraged at the COVID up. Reporters either allow themselves to be intimidated by the White House into covering it,
Joe Getty
or
Mark Halperin
they did it willingly because they didn't want to help Donald Trump win.
Jack Armstrong
So he plays the clip and then he has a couple of guests on and he goes on and on about as he just said there, it's the biggest media cover up in our nation's history. And how the New York Times or the Washington Post. No, no, CBS News, nobody has put out any sort of statement. We should have noticed that we didn't. We failed you anything. And the, his show, Mark Halpern shows he has a Republican strategist on and a Democratic strategist and even the Democratic strategist. Oh, by the way, we should have played some clip from the. What are those two guys that ran Obama's campaign that have the big podcast that everybody listens to, the Pod Bros or whatever the heck that thing is.
Joe Getty
Pod Save America.
Jack Armstrong
Pod Save America. Yeah. Dan Pfeiffer and a couple other people that were involved in Obama's and they're both like, this is why people don't trust us. This is why our brand is so damaged. This is why the Democrats are gonna be digging out of this for years. We're still lying. We're still lying as a party about this. We're still pretending it didn't happen. How long are we going to do this? And that's the way Mark Alpern was. And they were, and they're. How, how is no big media organization come out and say, we failed you. We've got to do better. This was ridiculous. And I don't know the event Mark Halpern's talking about. He says he was at an event in 2017 that has magically been scrubbed for everywhere. It was a private event and he can't find any video of it anywhere. Somehow it disappeared. But he was there. And Joe Biden had a debate night moment in 2017 and Halperin wrote about it at the time. And one of the things in his article in 2017 was the good news is Joe Biden is never going to run for anything again, which is Good for him and America long before, you know.
Joe Getty
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
And. And so that drives him nuts since he was writing about it in 2017 and people saw this, all this sort of thing all the time. And people are still pretending that I didn't know until debate night.
Joe Getty
Well, yeah, and there were a handful of those events, too. I remember seeing the video and hearing the audio. There was the infamous Hollywood George Clooney fundraiser where he was wandering around confused, and Barack had to take him by the hand.
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Joe Getty
And then, you know, nobody said anything for months until Clooney came out and said, yeah, he was a shell of a man. We were all shocked. All of a sudden, he grew a conscience. When. When, I don't know, Daddy, Barack or the Democratic Party told me, you can go ahead and talk about this now.
Jack Armstrong
Halpert is more willing than most people in media to say nasty things about other people in media because they're all friends. And whatever that woman's name is who's interviewing Joe Biden, I should have it in front of me. But who does the interview? He said, look, she's a friend of mine. Her husband was my lawyer for a long time. But that is a ridiculous reaction. When Jill Biden says, I'd never seen him like that or before, and she says, oh, really? Like that's possibly true. That is a ridiculous reaction. Why wouldn't you react with. Well, two thirds of America, three quarters of America, felt like he was too senile to be president before that debate. So they had seen it before. How had you not seen it before?
Joe Getty
Right, yeah. It's all ridiculous.
Jack Armstrong
It is ridiculous. And those POD Save America guys who are young and, you know, enthusiastic Democrat progressives who want them to win more, elect elections are beside themselves with anger of, like, what are we going to own up to this? This is nuts. That we continue to pretend that we didn't know. Everybody knew. This is crazy and how damaging it is.
Joe Getty
Never admit fault, never admit you've made a mistake. Never admit you were wrong. Just deny, deny, deny. Maintain the bunker mentality and fight on.
Jack Armstrong
Well, that's from the party. How about the media as one? The Democratic Party, they.
Joe Getty
They consider themselves part of the.
Jack Armstrong
The resistance, but they are in business to make money. And as this strategist said, the only thing, what you're selling every single day is people believing in you. Because once people stop believing in you, then they don't click on you or watch you or read you anymore, and you're done. You've lost them. So you've got to sell, believability and they blew it all up. That's why the Washington Post, New York Times, these evening newscasts, that's one of the reasons why so many people left them. Because, okay, you're liars. Well, never mind then. And then they turn to alternative sources which are full of conspiracies and all kinds of crap like that. But that's where we are.
Joe Getty
Your premise is wrong and their premise is wrong. People don't tune in for. What'd you say? Accuracy or to believability. They turn. They tune in for agreeability. They want to hear what they. They want to hear their priors reconfirmed. In modern media, it's all about tribal signaling and agreement, not challenging people with the truth. 100% believe that.
Jack Armstrong
Well, it's not working. For having as big an audience as they used to have. Their audiences are shrinking.
Joe Getty
Oh, yeah, I think you're right.
Jack Armstrong
But their audiences are shrinking going that direction.
Joe Getty
Part of that is just the nature of old media, though. I mean, you can't lay it all on.
Jack Armstrong
Part of it is, but a lot of it isn't. Also that there's got to be. I know I'm that way. I can't read the New York Times and think that's the story like I might have 25 years ago or the Washington Post or the evening news or anything like that. You have to go to alternate sources. You have to. You have to do your homework on every story because you can't trust these people. Halpernoy's used the example of Joe Biden's age and the Hunter laptop. I mean, those were two blatant lies to people. Blatant lies that everybody knew that was crap.
Joe Getty
Right.
Jack Armstrong
And once you completely sold your credibility, wow, you'll never get it back. It's.
Joe Getty
I am going to speak for these media people that you are criticizing quite, quite appropriately, by the way. It's way too difficult and complicated to compete on nuanced truth telling. Pandering is way easier. We have our niche. We will never have the mass audience that you're saying we lost.
Jack Armstrong
We couldn't.
Joe Getty
We're doing what's smart for business, period. That's what they would say to you if they were going to be honest. It's disappointing.
Jack Armstrong
If that's the case, then we are completely doomed. If there's no audience for, hey, we really, really try to get this right all the time. And be honest. If there's no audience for that, well, then we are completely doomed.
Joe Getty
Well, there's an audience for it. It's just not very big.
Jack Armstrong
Well, big enough audience to keep you in business.
Joe Getty
That's, it's a niche. It's just, just a different niche. It used to be like the entire principle of journalism back in the day.
Jack Armstrong
I heard this yesterday from Jonah Goldberg who used to work at National Review. Like a lot of these publications left and right, these like, what do you call them? They're like think tanks in on a website. They have tiny audiences. And Jonah Goldberg, when, when he went to work for the National Review way back in the day when William F. Buckley still ran it and it was, it was print before website and everything like that. He said he was told that, look, there is a hobby out there. And I forget what it was. It was, something was ridiculous, a hobby like carving squirrels out of chunks of wood. They have a magazine that gets four times the readership of what we get. That's just a fact.
Joe Getty
Right.
Jack Armstrong
And I think that's probably true. So, you know, to a certain extent people haven't wanted thorny truth telling, pointy headed analysis anyway.
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Jack Armstrong
I had two stories I wanted to get on the air and I'm, I'm going to do that next segment just to make sure I get them on the air. I got a trans story. A personal, personal experience. I'm not transitioning that's not the not yet. I've got a trans story and then I got a story around the whole CIA gold bar thing. That's pretty interesting. So all that's coming up next. Stay here. Armstrong and Getty.
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going to look from deep. Didn't hit one in game five.
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Wembanyama calls for that right away.
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Jack Armstrong
What's the 90 seconds in? Wimby had a big game last night. Spurs 1. It is tied 3. 3. There will be a game 7. I don't like disperse chances in OKC, but it would sure be fun to see Wimby play in the finals against the Knicks. That would be really, really cool. Two things I've been wanting to get on. One, a trans story. So I got to be very vague about this because I wouldn't want to hurt this person's feelings. They're super, super duper nice. There is a business I go to with a very helpful woman there. And one time, like, second time I'd seen her there and she's helping me out with whatever and I. She had a name tag on and it was a very unique name. I'm not going to say the name because I don't want the story to get back to her, but I said, that's a unique name. Was that your. Your parents? Like somebody in the family? She said, no, I gave it to myself, actually. Oh, okay. Interesting. The next time I was there, she's helping me again. I said, I gotta ask you, I've been thinking about this. What does that mean? You gave the name to yourself. Did you change it? Said she said, I went through a weird period where I was trans and for a little while. And. Yeah. So I changed my name to this. But I decided I'm not trans anyway. And then she went about heaven. I thought, that's like the first person I've come across that has said that to me in person. Like, I went through this weird phase where I thought I was trans and I wasn't.
Joe Getty
Yeah, you're gonna hear that more and more. Yeah, absolutely.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. And thank God it appears she didn't do any, you know, surgical can't be
Joe Getty
reversed stuff, or even the irreversible hormone stuff, if you're young enough, can change your body forever. Wow. Based on teenage confusion, which is just horrifying. People who push that along are monsters.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. And Good for her to come out the other side of that other thing. We were talking earlier about the, the latest details on that CIA dude who got the highest clearance you can get in the CIA. He was a veteran of the CIA. He'd been there for many, many years. And every part of his resume was a lie. Lie after lie after lie after lie. The new stuff that came out today was he became an officer in the Navy by lying about his college transcript, that he never went to that college and got a degree and the Navy let him in as an officer. So I guess the CIA must have thought, well, surely the Navy checked that out. Wow. And claiming he was a Navy test pilot and he's never had a flyer's license or anything like that of any kind, just all kinds of lies. And so we'll see where this investigation goes.
Joe Getty
Cascading failure and incompetence.
Jack Armstrong
But we've been talking a little bit about kind of the fun of, you know, exaggerating your resume for a job. I mean, I've had radio jobs my entire adult life and it wouldn't have mattered at all if I had claimed I was, you know, first chair flute player in the orchestra at UCLA or whatever. Nope, it wouldn't have made any difference.
Joe Getty
Right?
Jack Armstrong
But it reminded me, remember our old producer Dominic, who was a child movie star? Dom. The late Dominic Brasha, who's now dead. He. He hung around Charlie Sheen and that whole crowd back in the day. Anyway, he. He told us you always say yes when you're trying out for a part in a movie. If they say, can you ride a horse? Yeah, of course I can. Can you, can you rollerblade? Oh, sure. Can you?
Joe Getty
Of course.
Jack Armstrong
Well, yeah. Can you surf? Oh, I've been surfing my whole life. Whatever it is, you just say yes and it' work out. I mean, you'll be. At least it won't keep you from getting the part and then you'll figure it out later or they'll teach you or something. And I think it's really interesting and I should have done that. Where can you, can you do play by play for basketball? Ah, hell yeah.
Joe Getty
Yeah, I used to do that for my local college. Yeah, for three years. Three and a half years. What do you mean three and a half years? You know, this season, I don't know. Something.
Jack Armstrong
Can you do a weather forecast? Sure. I was a meteorologist for two years.
Joe Getty
Yeah? Yeah. Huh. Funny.
Jack Armstrong
I wonder how many people do that and get away with it. I mean, it's got to be pretty common to get away with it. If you can get away with it, with. With what should be the strictest background check we have in the country, maybe the world.
Joe Getty
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
Then you. Surely you. You join some insurance firm or a bank or whatever, you can make up all kinds of crap.
Joe Getty
Yeah, I've seen the figures, various surveys on how many people pad their resumes, and it's. It's a hell of a. A few. I don't remember the specific numbers, but it's. It's a known thing that people do. I've never done it. Never done it.
Jack Armstrong
Like, I don't know if I'll ever apply for a job again in my life, but if I do, man, I went to Princeton. I went to Princeton.
Joe Getty
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, and if there's one thing I learned running the Apollo program, it's that you've got to be willing to promote yourself. And that's how we got the Mercury 3 in the air. Joe. That was. It was like the 50s, I think. Did I say Mercury? I meant Apollo.
Jack Armstrong
I went to Princeton in the 80s. There's probably no way to look that up, is there? I don't know. It wouldn't be super easy. So I'll say I did.
Joe Getty
And if they say they had no record of you, say.
Jack Armstrong
Wait a minute.
Joe Getty
Are you serious? This is. This is. I'll make a couple of calls. I am truly, truly offended by this.
Jack Armstrong
I better stop wearing this letter jacket then. That's. I don't know what's going on there.
Joe Getty
Wearing your letter jacket, are you really? Jughead?
Jack Armstrong
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Episode: Everyone Knew This Was Crazy!
Date: May 29, 2026
This episode of Armstrong & Getty is a rapid-fire journey through major headlines, cultural oddities, and scathing media critiques. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty zero in on the alleged media coverup surrounding President Biden's cognitive decline, concerns about Russia’s military threats, the curious world of billionaire life extension (including Putin’s “mini pig” organ project), and a candid segment about falsehood in resumes and media trust. Listeners get a blend of sharp satire, serious debate, and memorable guests—most notably reality-star-turned-LA-mayoral-candidate Spencer Pratt.
Main Theme: The media’s role in “covering up” President Biden’s health issues and what that means for trust in journalism.
Main Theme: The West’s growing anxiety over Putin’s ambitions and the Baltic states’ preparations for potential conflict.
Main Theme: The Russian government’s investment in anti-aging science—are we all destined for pig organs?
Main Theme: LA mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt’s rise and the shift in public mood.
Main Theme: Firsthand accounts and skepticism about popular social narratives.
Main Theme: Lies in hiring—from the CIA to local businesses—and what it reveals about checks and honesty in modern life.
Media and Biden Coverup: 26:27–36:56
Russia, Ukraine, and Baltic/European Readiness: 03:55–08:49
Putin, Bioprinting, and Longevity Science: 10:05–14:52
Spencer Pratt on LA Mayoral Race: 19:47–23:01
Personal Story — De-transitioning: 43:09
CIA Resume Fraud & Resume Padding: 44:25–47:03
Irreverent, skeptical, and deeply critical of “the system”—whether that’s the mainstream media, institutions like the CIA, or prevailing social narratives. Armstrong & Getty aim their satire and scorn at hypocrisy, incompetence, and self-delusion, but do so with a blend of humor and genuine curiosity.
If you missed it: this episode is a crash course in media skepticism, war anxiety, the new populist moment, and the enduring American urge to “fake it ‘til you make it.”