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Jack Armstrong
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Armstrong and Getty Enough.
Jack Armstrong
He here's Arms draw and get ready.
Joe Getty
Live from Studio C Si Seor It's a dimly lit room, deeper than the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound. And today we're toiling under the title
Jack Armstrong
of the show child molesters, scammers and communists. They never admit what they really are. Or if you prefer, Foushee guilty of everything we've ever said.
Joe Getty
Yeah, man, that's getting a lot of attention. When's the hearing's actually tomorrow, I guess with Rand Paul, where he's gonna get into the Fauci diaries and everything like that.
Jack Armstrong
But indeed, of course, I don't know.
Joe Getty
I haven't been paying attention. I don't know if this has made anything, any news other than like New York Post and Fox. I don't know if any mainstream news has a CNN or MSNBC or anybody. New York Times, have they had those people?
Jack Armstrong
I don't know. I don't recall seeing it in the New York Times. Look, the Wall Street Journal has both an article which is horrible, absolutely horrible, written by a young Columbia School of Journalism grad. Wall Street Journal. Why are you hiring people from Columbia? It is a Democrat activist piece and then it is contradicted wholesale by the editorial board, I would say a few pages later. But who actually flips pages in a newspaper these days? The editorial board has a completely different interpretation of it. It's. It's practically, you know, the one blind man grasping the tail of the elephant and the other fella grabbing it elsewhere. Unbelievable. They're discussing two different things.
Joe Getty
Did that actually happen once? Is that where they came from? A couple blind guys came across an elephant and just really got into an argument over what the hell it was
Jack Armstrong
before the development of cricket in India. Blind guy, elephant groping was the nation's number one pastime.
Joe Getty
Blind guy touched something and guess what it is, was their national sport.
Jack Armstrong
Right. Let's add blind guys grope something and describe it. This will be great. Today on the show, an elephant, but an elephant. Let's all enjoy.
Joe Getty
But it gave the world.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, don't touch him there.
Joe Getty
That's why it made that noise. It gave the world a helpful metaphor, though. So. So that's.
Jack Armstrong
Yes, yes, indeed.
Joe Getty
Trump is meeting with both Netanyahu and Zelensky today. Yes, that's pretty big.
Jack Armstrong
I think it is two wars we're involved in. I need to just get over the fact that Trump is ridiculously dangerously mercurial and just deal with it. Yes, it would. It appears that Zelensky is back in his good graces for whatever reason. Perhaps it's the influence of Laura Loomer, who completely changed her mind. 180 degrees because she went to Ukraine and talked to a couple of people. So. Super.
Joe Getty
I don't know what the reason is. I don't know what the reason.
Jack Armstrong
That's what she says. I went to Ukraine, I talked to people, blah, blah, blah. You think she's on the payroll?
Joe Getty
I don't know what it is. Nobody knows. And it's hard to say.
Jack Armstrong
All right. It's, it's like, you know, the Tucker Candace thing. I just think they're greed heads. I just think they become completely cynical and realized, all right, the, the chuckleheads really go for this sort of thing. We're going to give them what they want. I don't, I don't know. I'm disgusted by all of it.
Joe Getty
How are you hardcore in favor of Russia, like, to the point of he's restoring Christianity and all that crap. Sorry, I feel like that's crap.
Jack Armstrong
If you agree that I think crap is too soft.
Joe Getty
He's bombing churches, among other things. He's murdering people left and sending them to the front where their life expectancy is 20 minutes. That's a not a very Christian thing to do.
Jack Armstrong
I'd go with horrific satanic lies.
Joe Getty
But anyway, she was using rape as
Jack Armstrong
a weapon of battle constantly. She was one of huge percentage, I'm sorry, a huge percentage of pow Report sexual abuse.
Joe Getty
Oh, yeah.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, that's rough.
Joe Getty
Anyway, she was one of those people and then has come out as pro Ukraine all of a sudden. And it's only important because she is. Has President Trump's ear. Trump listens to her. So anyway, it's going the right direction, so I can't complain. Um, I think it's just the, and I, I, I think this is a, a really interesting dynamic of culture and personality. And some of that comes out in the Odyssey, the, in the old timey way of, of looking at the world. A great man. A great man was anybody who just did what they wanted and were and, and accomplished it, whether they, whether it was moral or not. You just got done what you wanted to get done. Caesar wiping out a million people, killing, you know, all kinds of innocent people. That is a great man. Let's cheer him like crazy or Decius or whoever. And Trump is, Trump is more in line with that sort of thing. Just who's winning? I mean, I'm, I'm with who's winning. I'm with winners. And I think that's why he, you know, leaned Putin and now Putin's a loser and Zelinsky's a winner. I think it's that simple for Him.
Jack Armstrong
Wow. Wow. Interesting.
Joe Getty
That's a. I like winners. I like people who win.
Jack Armstrong
It's a different philosophy for guiding the ship of state. Let's see how it plays out.
Joe Getty
I think it was the philosophy of
Jack Armstrong
the whole world and still parts of
Joe Getty
the world, but for the whole world pre Christianity. That's Tom Holland's theory from the book Dominion.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. And then certainly it diminished further after the Enlightenment in the Western world.
Joe Getty
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
It still holds sway in the Muslim world, for what it's worth.
Joe Getty
Well, right, that's, that's why. And I, I've said this, I apologize if you've heard this. Me say this 10 times, but when I heard the, the Osama bin Laden story where he said when people see two horses fighting a strong horse and a weak horse, they root for the strong horse. And I thought, no, I don't, I don't think most people are. That strong horse is about to kill that weak.
Jack Armstrong
Kill him, kill him, kill the weakling.
Joe Getty
So that, that's a very different philosophy of life. You just root for the strong versus the weak and the weak, you're getting what they deserve.
Jack Armstrong
Or you, you root for justice and compassion just in general. Hey, how about you, you two horses stop settling this with violence.
Joe Getty
And I think Osama bin Laden and maybe Trump, I shouldn't put them. Well, that's not fair.
Jack Armstrong
We won't get any emails over that one.
Joe Getty
That's not fair. That's not what I meant. But just as a world view, I think a lot of the people of the. Go ahead, keep rooting for the week and to see where that gets you over time, I think would be their philosophy. I, I tend to root for the underdog and the week, but that's where I come from. And I don't know if that's the Christian influence on Western civilization or, or what.
Jack Armstrong
But,
Joe Getty
but I was on the side of Ukraine from the beginning and I still am. Now that they're winning. I don't need to switch to the weak, though.
Jack Armstrong
That's there.
Joe Getty
That's an interesting point I just made about myself. I'm staying with the strong because they're the. On the right side of it.
Jack Armstrong
Speaking for myself, I yearn for justice.
Joe Getty
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
And I'm actually sincere about that. I couldn't help but say it as if I'm modeling for a statue of myself. But yeah, yeah, I mean, you did
Joe Getty
say that like you're standing literally on
Jack Armstrong
a pedestal, perhaps with a cape and
Joe Getty
some sort of sheet over your shoulder, and there is a sculptor hard at work with his big block of granite trying to make a sculpture.
Jack Armstrong
I may be wearing laurel leaves in this scenario.
Joe Getty
I yearn for justice.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, but no, you, you inadvertently made a good point. I mean, certainly I was rooting for the allies when the Germans and Japanese were on the front foot. And then after the Allies achieved the advantage us, I was continuing to root for the Allies.
Joe Getty
I didn't switch to the weak side because I always root for the weak. So I guess that's right.
Jack Armstrong
Well, Mike Singletary with a different point of view.
Joe Getty
But anyway, that's enough philosophizing. The servants are saying, there he goes again. Justice, justice, justice. And then you would say, bring me some grapes. And they would hustle off with their
Jack Armstrong
feed them to me names. Feed them to me.
Joe Getty
Let's start the show officially. We have a silly clip today. I'm Jack Armstrong, he's Joe Getty on this. It is Tuesday, July 28, the year 2026, where Armstrong and Getty and we approve of this program.
Jack Armstrong
Let's begin then. Officially, according to FCC rules and regulations, the show starts at March. And the squirrels free once again hemmed in. No, I won't be hemmed in. I have freedom on my mind. Trying to go between the legs.
Joe Getty
And eventually he gets away again. Hey, a squirrel got onto a baseball field. That's fantastic. No, I yearn for freedom.
Jack Armstrong
I give it like three minutes and say play on.
Joe Getty
We've got a full minute version of that. We'll cut. We'll play for you a little bit later. That's fun. That's good time at the old bar. I've been to plenty of games where that would be a very welcome distraction from nothing happening.
Jack Armstrong
Well, and, and I'm thinking if I'm like the, the crew chief of the umpires, I'm thinking, all right, a, it's a baseball game. What are the chances a squirrel disrupts it? And if it does, so what? B, it's a squirrel. It's not like it's a four year old child running around that we might hit with the ball or something like that. It's a squirrel is fine. God will make more of them play on. I would declare.
Joe Getty
Or a lion or something, right?
Jack Armstrong
Yes. Also that more likely to be disruptive. Yes.
Joe Getty
Could have used that during the like halfway mark of the World cup final. Oh, that would have been a very welcome.
Jack Armstrong
I paid money for a squirrel or a beaver or that jimothy or whatever.
Joe Getty
The field Cup Final.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, my God.
Joe Getty
That would have been the greatest thing ever. Oh, my God. Oh, everybody had been talking on Twitter. Somebody captured Jimothy, got him all the way to New York for the World cup final and somehow got him into the stadium and released him during the soccer game and put.
Jack Armstrong
Put a FIFA vest on him, you know. Oh yeah, put it Argentina jersey on.
Joe Getty
You gotta put a jersey for one team or the other. I don't know who Jimothy roots for.
Jack Armstrong
The classic one team on one side and the other team on the other one.
Joe Getty
There is hardly a joke you can make that includes the word Jimothy that I would not laugh at. At least for a while.
Jack Armstrong
So stupid. Half our kids are communists and people are fixated on a deformed raccoon. These are the final days, friends.
Joe Getty
Gotta be the end times.
Jack Armstrong
Yes.
Joe Getty
So we've got the headlines for the end times coming up with Heather Meyers.
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Jack Armstrong
Hey guys. Have you ever found yourself craving a cold snack? Yep. Do you even know what a cold snack is?
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I do.
Jack Armstrong
Well, some of you may have noticed I've been wearing a Montucky shirt on the video version of the podcast. And that's because Montucky makes my favorite cold snack. That's right. It's a cold snackable beer. And summer is the best time to enjoy it. You're right, Ters. Montucky is a light American lager from Bozeman, Montana. It's snackable, shareable, and perfect for all occasions. Hey, that sounds like the dream beer to me. Go to montuckycoldsnacks.com snacks-finder to find Montucky cold snacks and a retailer near you. And if you're looking for some Montucky merch, use important snacks all one word for 20% off their merch store. They got some cold horses on those cans. Cold snacks.
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Joe Getty
Here's something I don't fully understand. So Biden pardoned Dr. Fauci on his way out the door. Rand Paul said that pardon won't stick because Fauci perjured himself before the pardon. But I don't think that's the way pardons work. I'm. I'm confused by that.
Jack Armstrong
I. I couldn't. I'd have to think about that.
Joe Getty
Don't people almost always get pardoned for things they did a long time ago? That's.
Jack Armstrong
Well, yeah, it's preemptive pardons. That's bizarre for charges that haven't even been filed and allegations that haven't been made.
Joe Getty
Anyway, more on that later.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, let's figure out who's reporting what. It's Lee's story with Heather Myers. Heather, take it away.
Heather Myers
Hi, Jack and Joe. Good morning. It is Tuesday. Let's get you caught up on the headlines. Here's how the networks are reporting the news, starting with NBC News. Netanyahu to join Trump for high stakes meeting at the White House. From cnn, Netanyahu is in Washington to meet with A testy Trump. And from ABC News, Netanyahu and Zelensky to push their agendas at the White House meetings with Trump.
Joe Getty
Yeah, and I think everybody's view is that Trump is cooling toward Netanyahu and warming towards Zelensky as opposed to a
Heather Myers
couple of years ago recently called Netanyahu crazy during a, you know, back and forth with a reporter. All right. From Newsmax, Iran linked media outlet publishes threat video targeting Melania and Baron.
Joe Getty
Yeah, that said that. How's that for negotiating in good faith? They put out a sort of mock murder, Trump's family video yesterday.
Jack Armstrong
Talks are going well. Deep talks, productive talks making progress.
Heather Myers
From New York Times, Trump asked the Supreme Court to allow an order that would restrict mail in voting. From ABC News this morning, Brian Coburger seeks to withdraw guilty plea in University of Idaho murders.
Joe Getty
Scumbag.
Jack Armstrong
This is is exactly what you'd expect from a terribly maladjusted narcissist who took his narcissism to the extreme that he thought he could get away with a multiple murder and now he's just trying to manipulate the court. Hang him. I'd like to see him hanged.
Joe Getty
He's a PhD candidate who like all sociopaths thinks he's smarter than everybody and just wants to jerk the world around. Don't let him.
Heather Myers
Right. From Fox News, Japan rocked by several earthquakes, including a magnitude 6.8.
Joe Getty
That's a big one. Have there been any tsunamis or anything?
Heather Myers
Good question. I haven't heard of a tsunami warning, but there have been buildings and homes that have collapsed in that 6.8 quakes.
Joe Getty
And they get a lot of earthquakes in Japan.
Heather Myers
The ring of fire. Yes, Fox News. Foushee privately took credit for COVID 19 lockdowns despite public denial. Newly exposed diary entries revealed.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, well, we need to find that. Back to back, we may have it where he says, I never called and locked down anything. And then the entries from his diary saying, yeah, I reached out to this governor and this governor and told him you got a lockdown. Liar.
Heather Myers
From cnn, Savannah. Savannah Guthrie post new video asking to bring Nancy home. It's been almost six months. We're coming up on almost six months.
Joe Getty
Yeah, I feel sorry for her. I mean for the obvious and then being a public figure having to go through all your grief on a horrible situation like this in public.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, it's just, and she should do what she's doing because there's a very, very small chance the murderer is a person who has a conscience and things got out of hand. I think the Chances are a lot better. It's somebody with absolutely no conscience whatsoever and there's no appeal that will work. And they just say I'm not going to reach out to anybody. It's all downside for me. To hell with you. It's unfortunate, but of course I'm sorry, Heather. I got to throw this in. That person only did that because of capitalism. Because of. According to democratic socialists, they only abducted an old woman and led to her death because of capitalism. So there should be no jail for him. Lunatics
Joe Getty
first.
Heather Myers
Mondavi, Fox News Mondame sparks fears of violence after doxing wealthy NYC property owners.
Joe Getty
Yeah, that was a heck of a thing. I'm more interested in getting into the whole government run grocery store speech that he gave yesterday.
Jack Armstrong
I love the headline in the Journal. Mao comes to Manhattan. The gloves are off. Let's go.
Heather Myers
Yeah. CNN FAA says seats on hundreds of Boeing 737 Max jets were incorrectly installed.
Jack Armstrong
Whoops.
Joe Getty
Which is only a problem if you crash, according to Boeing.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, this is true.
Joe Getty
So hope you don't crash.
Heather Myers
I was on a Southwest flight recently where the seats have been rearranged where I was supposed to have a window seat and there's no window there. It's like there's a wall instead of a window.
Joe Getty
Interesting.
Heather Myers
Yes. Frustrating too. From CBS News, Cracker Barrel, the CEO who oversaw that controversial logo design is now stepping down.
Joe Getty
Why? Seemed like such a good idea to
Heather Myers
take so long to step down, yet
Joe Getty
make everybody the entire country across question your decision making. Even people that had never eaten in a cracky Cracker barrel thought you were into it.
Heather Myers
From ABC News, circus performer accidentally shot in the neck with an arrow at that New York county fair.
Jack Armstrong
Wow.
Joe Getty
I need more details on that story.
Heather Myers
Somebody missed their target. Or perhaps did not miss the target exactly.
Joe Getty
Love triangle. That's my guess.
Heather Myers
Possibly from the Babylon Be this morning. Fouch starting to think that maybe keeping a diary, a daily perjury diary was a bad idea.
Joe Getty
A daily perjury diary. I want to know more about that. Are anybody who keeps a diary? Or how about all my my conversations with chatbots? Are those all records that if something ever happened in your life the government could grab them? Does that mean nobody should ever keep
Jack Armstrong
a diary Text between us? Which is why I'm always very careful what goes into print.
Joe Getty
That's no way to live. We can't live like that.
Jack Armstrong
We have been.
Heather Myers
Wake up Armstrong and Getty.
Jack Armstrong
Have you ever found yourself craving a cold snack?
Joe Getty
Yep.
Jack Armstrong
Montucky makes my favorite cold snack. It's a cold, snackable beer. Montucky is a light American lager from Bozeman, Montana. Go to montuckycold snacks.com snack-finder to find Montucky cold snacks and a retailer near you. And if you're looking for some Montucky merch, use important snacks all one word for 20% off their merch store.
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Jack Armstrong
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Jack Armstrong
The Tony Fauci I saw in those emails is not the Tony Fauci I
Joe Getty
knew over the years.
Jack Armstrong
I mean he was a guy who
Joe Getty
is sober, who is careful about his
Jack Armstrong
public appearances and his statements, was always
Joe Getty
very care, always very thoughtful. Scott Gottlieb there yesterday. He was the probably number two face of the pandemic, at least for the media. He was on all your Sunday talk shows all the time and that sort of stuff. And we played I don't know how many clips of him over the pandemic years. He was the first person I ever heard say, I remember this and this is shocking to me. It was on one of the Sunday shows and he said, some mayor in this country is going to have to have the guts to shut down their city. And I thought, shut down the city? What are you talking about? I couldn't even imagine that ever happening. But he read the diaries from Anthony Fauci that are now out. Rand Paul put them out. The hearing is tomorrow. Rand Paul thinks Foushee is a villain. Scott Gottlieb read those and said, that's not the Anthony Fauci I knew in those diaries. So even he is obviously surprised, shocked, slash embarrassed, slash troubled by what he has seen in the Anthony Fauci diaries.
Jack Armstrong
Anthony Fauci is a skilled con man, I believe. I think he's a megalomaniac, an egomaniac
Joe Getty
and which seems to be true with scientists a lot.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, particularly those that rise to the heights of both science, politics. Yeah, they are in love with themselves and their own infallibility. So the publication of the diaries is getting increasing attention, beginning on the right and moving toward the center right. And we'll see whether stuff is picked up by, you know, your center left media. And the reason I'm concerned about that is not that I need the like affirmation of the New York Times reporting on stories I think are important, but I'm at the core concerned about the COVID cover up and Fauci and all this mess because the, the COVID era was, as y' all know, an absolutely astounding and horrific example of government overreach and the willingness of hundreds of millions of our friends and neighbors to go along with whatever the government told them to do, no matter how ridiculous, unconstitutional or unscientific it was. It was a disappearance of the love of liberty on a level I've never observed before and I hope to never see again.
Joe Getty
Right. Brit Hume on Fox yesterday said it was the Greatest policy failure of his lifetime. Yeah, a lot of these lockdowns, the school stuff, obviously by far the worst.
Jack Armstrong
But it's one of the greatest crimes against American children in our history, maybe the greatest.
Joe Getty
It extends. It's bad enough that a guy like Anthony Fauci could jump and so much. The country says, how high? Regardless of your, you know, constitutionally mandated freedoms. Right, but it extended to your local county numb nuts, who just got that job because they donated enough money to somebody who didn't have any expertise or anything, and they got to make all kinds of decisions about whether or not kids could play in the park. That's why I think 38 states have now passed laws where. No, no, no, no, no. This needs to be like, the legislature needs to get involved or something before we start making these rules.
Jack Armstrong
All right, so let's get into what's actually in these diaries, and. Excuse me, the Wall Street Journal news department's coverage of it made my head just about explode. Key takeaways from Anthony Fauci's Covid era journals. And some young woman from Columbia journalism school wrote up this article, and she talks about the lab leak thing in the kind of setup to the four or five takeaways, but writes it as if only Rand Paul thinks it came from a lab. I mean, Rand Paul's on this weirdo personal vendetta anyway. Most people think it's not. But here are your takeaways from the diaries, according to this little girl who the Wall Street Journal, to their shame, let write up the news coverage of this. Foushee fixated on media attention. That's your number one takeaway. He was in love with the spotlight. Two, Foushee's relationship with Trump deteriorated. Okay, so now let's make it about Trump. The greatest loss of our civil liberties, certainly since the Japanese internment camps, which arguably are arguably more defensible than the COVID thing. Anyway, point number three, he knew how to play politics. And point four, finally, he called the Chinese lab leak hypothesis a conspiracy theory. Then she mentions that he discussed the origins in January 2020, saying somewhere the virus jumped from animals to humans. Days later, he received a call from scientists who said it was possible the viral mutation was deliberately inserted, then either accidentally released from the lab, but he wrote in 2021 with more confidence about COVID 19, where it came from. I have always said that the very, like, high likelihood is it originated naturally among animals, blah, blah, blah. And then she just leaves alone. Like, again, Rand Paul's the only person who ever claimed otherwise. And Ben Says Fauci complained about having discussed the theory that the COVID 19 virus came from a Chinese lab. Quote, it is inevitable that they will be hassling me about this for some time. He wrote in 2021. She does not mention at all the NIH under Fauci fundering Peter Dasak and Health Co alliance, whatever the hell the name of the company was that was financing the gain of function work in the Wuhan lab. To not mention that direct conflict of interest is. Well, it's. It's the opposite of journalism. It sucks. Meanwhile, a couple of pages later, if you have the paper paper, the editorial board murders Fauci, blasts him appropriately, the revealing diaries of Dr. Fauci newly released diaries tell a different story from what he told you. And then they get right into it.
Joe Getty
Yeah, it's interesting. Whoever wrote that article has a different view than Scott Gottlieb, who is at least nominally an ally of Fauci through the whole thing, saying, yeah, that's not the Anthony Fauci I knew in those diaries. So even he was shocked by when those that was in that stuff. But apparently the Wall Street Journal author was not.
Jack Armstrong
And I should just despair of this ever getting fixed or people being honest about it for the reason that. And who is the great sage? You said this. Probably different sages through history. It is much easier to fool someone than to convince them they've been fooled. And so we have many millions of people, including powerful people, who just can't, in their ego, in their heart, admit, wow, I was totally wrong.
Joe Getty
Anyway, some of it is the Trump thing, though. Some of it is the weird tds because Trump might have been right about something. And to my bones, I can't have that be true.
Jack Armstrong
You combine those two, it's like combining the two elements in an epoxy together, and you get just something that can't be broken anyway, you know, and I realize I sound a little like I'm being obsessed. I'm obsessing about the journalism part of it, but they gave it to their breaking news writers, a young woman from the Columbia Journalism School. This is not breaking news. This is a another block of evidence in a story that has a tremendous amount of context that's been discussed for years. And it's interesting because the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal, which is enormously influential, has a completely different take and has both fists flailing. So, anyway, let me. Let me just get back to the facts. So the Wall Street Journal points out, or, I'm sorry, the editorial board, one conclusion is that on important points, Dr. Fauci was both wrong and dishonest. For instance, he and allies in the government science industrial complex still cling to the theory that COVID 19, evolved naturally in animal populations before. Before spreading to humans. Yet on February 1, 2020, his diary records a meeting with a dozen prominent virologists in which only two credited this natural origins theory. The rest suspected the virus created artificially and leaked. We all know the story. The diary suggests that by January 26, 2020, Dr. Fauci believed the virus had not originated in the Wuhan wet market, often identified as the source by natural origin advocates. This didn't stop him and his allies from painting skeptics of the natural origin theory as politicized cranks and conspiracy theorists. Previously released documents shed light on how Dr. Fauci orchestrated publication of a scientific paper to suppress the theory that Covid leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virol.
Joe Getty
To the point, as we all know, that Twitter, Facebook, certainly any broadcast media, wouldn't even allow anybody to discuss the idea that it came out of the lab. You were banned. You were knocked off of Facebook or Twitter.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, you were literally. You were shut down. Your account was shut down. If you said, hey, I think we really ought to look into the lab leak thing for this reason and that reason, ask Marty Makary and Jay Battikaraya and anybody who signed on to the Great Barrington Declaration. That was right about everything. And one more point. Fauci fairly recently claimed in an interview. I think it was on cnbc, he said, I never advocated shutting anything down. That was the cdc. It was their job, blah, blah, blah. But as the Journal editorial board points
Joe Getty
out,
Jack Armstrong
the diary also brags on Dr. Fauci's influence persuading the likes of California Governor Gavin Newsom and then New York Mayor Bill de Blasio to shut down schools and lock down parts of the economy. Yet he later claimed in public he had never argued for locking anything down.
Joe Getty
Those would be the nation's number one and number two biggest school districts in the entire country. Yes, that he argued with the governors. You need to shut them down. And they did. But then he went on TV and said, I didn't have anything to do with the shutdowns. That was other people making those decisions.
Jack Armstrong
And to your point, Jack, roughly 60 seconds ago. Conversely, Dr. Fauci gloated to himself about his viciousness toward critics. July 14, 2020. So I'm trying to quash a skeptical memo about his policies by Journal contributor Stephen Moore. Quote, I told White House aide Alyssa Farah that the White House needs to shut up Stephen Moore or stop his publication of Dr. Wrong paper. If he does not, the entire academic community will dump all over the potus. So effing Foushee was demanding that the White House shut down the free media's skepticism. And if he doesn't, he's going to turn the entire academic all over the POTUS and bragged about it in his diary. He is a monster and a murderer and he sponsored the gain of function research that escaped from the lab because of carelessness and killed millions, including your loved ones and damaged the hearts and minds of children for gener, for perhaps the rest of their lives. You got, you got contradictory proof. Send it, send pages of it. Send reams of it. Go ass.
Joe Getty
So we'll probably have to talk about this more later because we are running out of time, but. And it's a huge story. It is the underpinnings of one of the biggest stories of the last century. I mean, it's a very, very big story worldwide. He was involved in creating a virus that killed millions of people around the world and you know, caused the trillions of dollars of damage to economies. Trillions of dollars. So it's worth getting to this. But you said you don't want to get hung up on the media coverage on it or the journalism around it. But the.
Jack Armstrong
I don't want to lead with it.
Joe Getty
Well, the problem is there isn't much coverage of it and we may have seen the last of it. Mark Hempron was writing today. He said he thinks this story will be gone by the end of the week. For better or worse. Maybe Rand Paul will have his little hearing tomorrow which will get lots of attention on Fox and the New York Post and the Wall editorial board, but maybe nowhere else. And then that's the end of it, probably for the rest of my life. And he will just have done that. He will just have lied completely about a very, very important world changing story and gotten away with it.
Jack Armstrong
They make that point in the editorial board, how pleased he was with all the fawning media and. And they write the media idolatry. Something to behold. And maybe one reason that most of the press will ignore the diaries.
Joe Getty
Yeah, I don't know. I mean, because it became Fauci or Trump. And just so many people, like I said to their bones, they can't handle the idea of Trump maybe was right.
Jack Armstrong
Mm.
Joe Getty
Who cares whether Trump was right or not? First of all, as Jon Stewart pointed out with Stephen Colbert, it's the most likely thing by far. And remember, Colbert pushed back so hard. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You can't even be say that as a joke on this show, Right?
Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
Joe Getty
What a maddening thing. And it's horrifying. Like you were saying earlier, it's horrifying to realize how people, for all kinds of different, weird ideological reasons can go along with something so horrible for so long.
Jack Armstrong
Yep.
Joe Getty
Hey, it makes you understand how the Nazis did what they did and got German citizens to go along with all that. And everything, I mean, it really does was. Oh, God dang it. Yeah, we'll talk more about this later. We got Mailbag on the way.
Jack Armstrong
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Joe Getty
Executive producer Hanson just did a search on all ABC News sources to see what how many stories they had about Faustin Fauci in his diaries. Not a single Fauci story. Not one for one of the biggest news outlets in America over everything that's come out in the last couple of days from Rand Paul releasing that stuff. Not a single story.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, more on that to come. Here's your freedom loving quote of the day. Continuing our series on Iran. It's by an Iranian writer Inside Iran. People are actually quite well educated about America. There are things they don't understand, particularly in the government. But the people by and large know the American sensibility quite well. And the reverse is not true. Yeah, that's, that's probably true. I, I happen to know more than most about the Iranian people, but we're the world's greatest economy and superpower. So yeah, we're less interested in other people than they are in us. It's one of the privileges and hazards of being the big dog.
Joe Getty
Mailbag I probably don't know much about the average uranium. Hardly anything more on that to come as well.
Jack Armstrong
Drop us a note. Mailbagarmstrongygetty.com Steve and Eugene was the first one in China, Russia, Iran, North Korea. The Axis A holes. You gotta call them. Krink. The Krinks are at it again. Yeah, I had the N of North Korea, but not the K. Crink. China, Russia, Iran, North Korea. Crinkle Axis Eric Toodles Smith in beautiful Astoria, Oregon Oregon weighing in heavily this morning, enthusiastically. More by the way, Jack is an aside more David Lee Roth themed emails than I anticipated after our very brief discussion yesterday. The former frontman of Van Halen it's
Joe Getty
funny the things that touch a nerve.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, yeah. I think people, including us, we're looking for an excuse. Excuse not to just correct, you know, wallow in the uber serious stuff all the time.
Joe Getty
Correct.
Jack Armstrong
Anyway, yesterday you compared the personality of former VH frontman David Lee Roth, that of a cartoon character. I recall many years ago DJ on K Fog, San Francisco referred to Diamond Dave as Bugs Bunny with genitals. I always thought that was right on grapevines. Think alike Bugs Bunny with genitals. Because.
Joe Getty
Because he was so good at posing in a cool way, you kind of assigned it to a slightly different personality to him, I think, than what his real personality is.
Jack Armstrong
But what is his real personality that Jack so boldly claims to know? Dana writes Guys, I worked with David in the late 80s. I can assure you that his performance Persona is far from his off stage one. I found him to be quite thoughtful and caring. Well then why would you adopt the Bugs Bunny Persona? He was incredibly because it made him so rich and famous probably. He was incredibly loyal to his crew and those in his inner circle. He may come off as crazy, but in real life he was an excellent businessman. Very kind to me personally.
Joe Getty
Like, I'm not sure he's still not crazy. He might not have been crazy back when you worked with him in the 80s. I saw an interview with me today. I don't think his brain works.
Jack Armstrong
It doesn't work great. I'll concede that. Well, we're out of time.
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We actually have three more hours.
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Episode: "Fauci Is Guilty of Everything!!!"
Air Date: July 28, 2026
Hosts: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty
Producer/Contributor: Heather Myers
This episode dives deep into the latest controversy surrounding Dr. Anthony Fauci, focusing on newly revealed diary entries, political fallout, and broader cultural and media implications of the COVID-19 era. The hosts dissect how mainstream and partisan press are handling the Fauci revelations, muse on the shifting U.S. political landscape (including Trump’s meetings with Netanyahu and Zelensky), and reflect on the philosophical and moral challenges arising from government overreach during the pandemic. Throughout, Armstrong & Getty take their signature irreverent and pointed tone, mixing biting critique with humor and some characteristic tangents.
The Diaries Break (28:44–37:30)
“The diary also brags on Dr. Fauci’s influence persuading the likes of California Governor Gavin Newsom and then New York Mayor Bill de Blasio to shut down schools and lock down parts of the economy. Yet he later claimed in public he had never argued for locking anything down.” — Jack Armstrong (35:10)
Scott Gottlieb’s Reaction (25:09–26:24)
“That’s not the Anthony Fauci I knew in those diaries.” — Scott Gottlieb, relayed by Jack Armstrong (25:13)
Media & Public Reaction
“…the greatest policy failure of his lifetime.” — Joe Getty, paraphrasing (27:47)
“To not mention that direct conflict of interest is… the opposite of journalism. It sucks.” — Jack Armstrong (29:56)
“You were literally... shut down. Your account was shut down. If you said, hey, I think we really ought to look into the lab leak thing.” — Jack Armstrong (34:31)
Trump’s Mercurial Foreign Policy (04:54–09:21)
“A great man was anybody who just did what they wanted and accomplished it, whether it was moral or not… Trump is more in line with that sort of thing. Just who’s winning? I’m with winners.” — Joe Getty (07:35)
Justice vs. Power Worldview (08:15–10:29)
“I yearn for justice. And I’m actually sincere about that. I couldn’t help but say it as if I’m modeling for a statue of myself…” — Jack Armstrong (09:37)
Key Segments (17:02–22:36)
On Fauci’s Public vs. Private Persona:
“Anthony Fauci is a skilled con man… I think he’s a megalomaniac, an egomaniac.” — Jack Armstrong (26:24)
On Media Complicity:
“I should just despair of this ever getting fixed or people being honest about it… It is much easier to fool someone than to convince them they’ve been fooled.” — Jack Armstrong (31:50)
On the Impact of COVID Decisions:
“It was a disappearance of the love of liberty on a level I’ve never observed before and I hope to never see again.” — Jack Armstrong (27:37)
On Historical Parallels:
“Hey, it makes you understand how the Nazis did what they did and got German citizens to go along with all that… it really does...” — Joe Getty (39:05)
| Timestamp | Content | |-----------|---------| | 02:42 | Show begins – Title explanation, intro banter | | 03:07 | Preview of Fauci’s upcoming hearing; media coverage critique | | 04:54–10:29 | Discussion on Trump’s foreign policy, the ‘strong horse’ philosophy, and the morality of winners vs. justice | | 17:02–22:36 | News headlines roundup with Heather Myers – includes Fauci lockdown diaries mention | | 25:09–27:47 | Discussion of Gottlieb’s reaction and parental mistakes in COVID-era policy | | 28:44–39:16 | Deep dive into Fauci’s diaries, Wall Street Journal coverage, lockdowns, media failures | | 39:16–End | Reflections on news coverage, emotional impact, and Mailbag segment |
Armstrong & Getty use this episode to call out what they see as profound failures in government transparency, media responsibility, and public accountability surrounding the pandemic, with Dr. Fauci as the focal point. They supplement their outrage with humor and reflections on broader social attitudes about power, justice, and truth. The episode is particularly valuable for listeners seeking a sharply critical, right-leaning take on the ongoing COVID-19 policy reckoning—along with side helpings of cultural commentary and banter.
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