Foreigners Are Funny

Summary

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Armstrong & Getty On Demand

Episode: "Foreigners Are Funny"

Air Date: October 6, 2025
Hosts: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty

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Overview

In this episode, Armstrong & Getty tackle topics ranging from foreign accents and the efficacy of language education in the U.S. to a preview of pivotal Supreme Court cases and the intersection of modern activism causes. The hosts blend humor and sharp commentary on cultural trends, legal controversies, and viral news stories, peppering the show with memorable moments and their trademark banter.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Foreign Accents, Language Learning, and Bilingualism (00:39–04:20)

• The episode opens with hosts playfully commenting on Melania Trump's accent and riffing on the humor (and challenges) of foreign speech.
• Jack Armstrong shares his skepticism about mandatory high school foreign language courses, highlighting the ineffectiveness of language retention among American students.
  • "Almost everybody I know in my life who’s taken Spanish...knows almost none of it. We gotta give up on that idea." (01:24)
• Joe Getty suggests, if language education continues, it should start in early childhood when the "brain is plastic":
  • "I've talked about how I studied German for years...could not...break through. It’s too hard as an adult." (02:24)
• The hosts debate the value of bilingualism, poking fun at the idea that knowing multiple languages is a sign of moral superiority in Europe versus the U.S.

2. Preview of Major Supreme Court Cases (04:20–08:51)

• The return of the Supreme Court’s "season" is used to discuss upcoming pivotal cases, including presidential powers and the autonomy of federal agencies:
  • Tariffs and executive authority ("Does the President have the power to unilaterally regulate the economy?" – 05:12)
  • Presidential power to fire top agency officials vs. long-standing legal traditions (referencing Humphrey's Executor decision).
• Debate over whether "fourth branch" entities like the Fed should be insulated from politics.
  • "The Fed...was designed not that long ago...but then [the President] can't fire them. That doesn’t really make any constitutional sense." (07:18 – Jack Armstrong)

3. Transgender Rights Cases & Activism (08:51–12:16)

• The Supreme Court will consider whether states can ban transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports.
• Joe Getty is bluntly opinionated: “Do you mean boys in girls and women’s sports? Yes. You can ban males from girl sports? Yes, you can. Of course, you can. Anybody who thinks you can’t is a lunatic.” (08:51)
• They discuss counseling bans in Colorado, expressing alarm at laws prohibiting therapists from exploring gender identity alternatives.
  • “It is one of the most egregious, horrifying free speech cases I’ve ever seen.” (09:17 – Joe Getty)
• The hosts anticipate the Court will mirror international trends and uphold bans on transgender athletes in women’s sports.

4. Modern Activism and “Omnicause” Critique (12:16–18:13)

• Armstrong & Getty critique the “omnicause” trend, where individual causes (body positivity, queer rights, Palestine solidarity, etc.) blend incoherently.
• Feature of Tess Tillman, body positivity activist, who blocks unsupportive family members and links overweight acceptance to international political issues.
  • “I just think that you have to stand for something...and it’s not worth a check to compromise your integrity.” (16:13 – Tess Tillman)
• Hosts suggest this conflation of issues is symptomatic of contemporary activism, where being “for everything” can overshadow coherent advocacy.
  • “How they convince soft heads...that this all makes sense and you’re a good person for advocating for the permanent omnicause...” (17:36 – Joe Getty)

5. Middle East Protests & Activist Contradictions (13:31–15:45)

• Amusement over “Queers for Palestine” and protesters waiving pride flags at pro-Palestinian rallies, despite Middle Eastern regimes’ anti-LGBTQ stances.
• Anecdote of a pro-Palestinian activist caught clueless about the “Trump peace plan.”
  • “You're into the cause enough to spend your Saturday there, but you're unaware of the biggest story in the world, that is this whole peace plan?” (14:11 – Jack Armstrong)

6. Commentary on Conspiracy Theories: 9/11 and Tucker Carlson’s Documentary (21:00–28:49)

• Discussion of Tucker Carlson's five-part documentary series on 9/11, including speculation about CIA, Saudi, and Israeli involvement, and how conspiracy content can manipulate even skeptical viewers.
  • “Those things scare me because you can feel yourself being pulled into a conspiracy.” (37:31 – Jack Armstrong)
• Attention given to Laura Loomer's attacks on Tucker Carlson and infighting among right-wing influencers, highlighting the fragmentation of the “MAGA crowd.”
  • “She has been going after Tucker Carlson. She now calls him Tucker Katarlson...” (24:50 – Joe Getty)

7. The Rise and Fall of Rite Aid & Reflections on Capitalism (31:22–32:03)

• News of Rite Aid’s final closure prompts nostalgic and humorous reflection on the transience of American retail giants.
  • “It’s the end of an era. An era in which there were Rite Aids.” (31:48 – Joe Getty)

8. Viral and Outrageous Stories: 15-Mask Man on a Plane (32:03–36:11)

• The hosts recap a bizarre incident involving a plane passenger wearing 15 masks, screaming about “gay people giving him cancer,” leading to a forced landing and his arrest.
  • “At one point, the man even announced, Trump is here...then played Candy Crush between outbursts.” (33:26 – Joe Getty)
• The incident leads to a discussion of whether air travel genuinely has more “crazy” incidents or if they are just more visible in the news/social media age.

9. Final Thoughts & Wrap-up (36:42–38:49)

• Crew offers closing reflections—including nostalgia over Rite Aid and the lack of social media evidence for the 15-mask man.
• Armstrong warns about conspiracy documentaries' persuasive pull:
  • “You can feel yourself being pulled into a conspiracy...It’s just weird how it affects your brain.” (37:31 – Jack Armstrong)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On language education:
  "Almost everybody I know...who’s taken Spanish...knows almost none of it. We gotta give up on that idea."
  — Jack Armstrong [01:24]

• On foreign language and Europe:
  "Europeans are better people than us because they know more languages."
  — Jack Armstrong [03:46]

• On political agency firings:
  "You just kind of built an agency that the chief executive appoints the guy in charge, but then can't fire them. That doesn't really make any constitutional sense..."
  — Jack Armstrong [07:18]

• On transgender sports bans:
  "You can ban males from girl sports? Yes, you can. Of course you can. Anybody who thinks you can't is a lunatic."
  — Joe Getty [08:51]

• On the “omnicause”:
  "This needs to be really studied because this is a new phenomenon… in their mind somehow it makes sense to them to combine Hamas, trans, boys in sports, being overweight and hey, isn’t it cool?"
  — Jack Armstrong [17:01]

• On activism going viral:
  "I just think that you have to stand for something..."
  — Tess Tillman [16:13]

• On conspiracy media:
  "Those things scare me because you can feel yourself being pulled into a conspiracy."
  — Jack Armstrong [37:31]

• On change in retail:
  "It’s the end of an era. An era in which there were Rite aids."
  — Joe Getty [31:48]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Foreigners and Language Learning: 00:39–04:20
• Supreme Court Preview: 04:20–08:51
• Transgender Rights & Activism: 08:51–18:13
• Protests & Contradictory Activism: 13:31–15:45
• Conspiracy Theories & Tucker Carlson: 21:00–28:49
• Rite Aid & Retail Nostalgia: 31:22–32:03
• 15-Mask Airplane Incident: 32:03–36:11
• Final Thoughts & Wrap-Up: 36:42–38:49

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Tone & Style

The hosts deliver their takes in a sharp, irreverent style, frequently using biting humor and sarcasm to highlight perceived absurdities in modern culture, politics, and media. The episode is fast-paced, conversational, and balances critique with self-deprecating reminiscence.

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Transcript

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[Jack Armstrong]

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[Joe Getty]

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[Jack Armstrong]

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[Joe Getty]

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[Jack Armstrong]

Generations of sailors have kept America free. Your strength, bravery and sacrifice inspires us all. That was Melania Trump addressing a whole bunch of naval cadets there. Pretty cool little scene. Her accent is funny. Foreigners are funny, aren't they? Oh, man.

[Joe Getty]

Oh please. The way they talk. Funny. Why doesn't anybody teach him how to talk in those foreign countries?

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, that reminds me. That reminds me. So this came up. My son has to take Spanish where he goes to high school. It's common thing. I, I somehow, thank God managed to get through high school and a college degree without ever having to take a foreign language. Thank God because I'm not good at it. But he, he, he's had, this is like his second or third year Spanish or whatever and he can hardly speak any Spanish and he was talking about how his best friend can speak even less than him. And he's had another year, one more year of Spence. Almost everybody I know in my life who's taken Spanish particularly, but practically any foreign language knows almost none of it. Yeah, that we got to give up on that idea.

[Joe Getty]

Whoever thought that originally maybe they were.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well intentioned with the Spanish thing. I don't think it's well intentioned. I think it's a caving to our immigration policies that we need to accept that we're a dual lingual. No, we don't. No, we do not have to accept that we're a bilingual country. We're not. It's in the law, but people don't learn it. Replace that class with something else, an extra science class or recess or something. But it's a complete waste of time.

[Joe Getty]

I'm not as bitter and cynical as you. I wish I'd been able to learn a second language just because it's interesting. But if we're going to continue doing it, do it in first grade, first, second, third grade when the kids in even like kindergarten. Although it'll be done for politically correct reasons and you know, whatever for. Like you said, we gotta. We're a dual. You know what was interesting in Britain that's got a huge immigration population causing plenty of problems, but is a very. London's a very international city. Everything's in English period. Nothing else anywhere interesting. English official signage, you know, in some of the Muslim parts of town it's in Arabic and stuff like that. But anyway, you got to do it when kids. Brains are. Plastic is the correct term when they can learn so much more quickly. I've talked about how I studied German for years and I'd like to think I have a reasonable grasp of the English language, but it could not. I just couldn't break through. It's too hard as an adult.

[Jack Armstrong]

Isn't it such a cliche in your life that it's, you know, practically an axiom when people talk about a foreign language they took in high school and they say, I can't speak a word of it now. Well, then what was the point?

[Joe Getty]

What were we doing? Yeah, I had one more thought on that topic. Oh. Melania Trump, the first lady, who famously speaks, what is it, five languages or seven or something.

[Jack Armstrong]

One of them is hot.

[Joe Getty]

Yes.

[Jack Armstrong]

Speaks the language a hot.

[Joe Getty]

And some people ignoramuses like to hint that Americans would do that if they had more character.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right. Europeans are. Europeans are better people than us because they know more languages.

[Joe Getty]

Right, Right. Or people who learn five languages are just smart. Well, they are smarter in a way. But seriously, if you were to point a gun at me and say, throw a 100 mile per hour fastball, I'd have as good a chance as if you told me, learn two more languages. It's something I cannot do, period. I tried like crazy to get good at German. Anyway, if you're gonna do it, do it very, very young.

[Jack Armstrong]

So first Monday in October means a new Supreme Court season. This has been an interesting off season in that the Supreme Court had to deal with like eight cases or something like that, more than they ever have in between finishing in June, starting up again in October. Why does the Supreme Court have a season like school teachers or Major League Baseball as opposed to working year round? Why don't I know that? Why is that a job that you can't just do year round? But being a senator or a president or anything like that you just do, or any other job we have, what somebody's like.

[Joe Getty]

I think it's because for most of our history, there was just no reason for them to.

[Jack Armstrong]

Maybe that's it.

[Joe Getty]

You know, that's probably it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, that makes sense. Anyway, first Monday in October means they are back. And here's a list of some of the things they're going to have this year and some of them soon. The court on November 5, which is just a month away, will review the whole global tariffs thing. Does the President have the power to unilaterally regulate the economy? Because he deemed it a national emergency and you know, I guess Would they get into whether this was an emergency anyway? Lower courts have ruled the President acted illegally. The outcome of the high Court is far from clear. Says the Wall Street Journal. I'd say, but that would be huge after all of that tariff stuff. If the Supreme Court comes back and says you can't do that, one guy can't do that. That's crazy.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I'm a restrainer too. I want less executive power, not more. And it seems pretty clear to me that Congress is supposed to have the power of taxation, not the chief executive. And there are limited statutory opportunities for the President to levy tariffs, but limited. I just, I don't like it as a trend because if our guy does it, their guy's gonna.

[Jack Armstrong]

Sure. This one's interesting. Another blockbuster case about the President's power to fire top people at independent government agencies. Nobody's exactly sure how this is gonna go. Trump has just dismissed a whole bunch of officials spurning a 90 year old court decision that said the President could only fire them for specific reasons. That's the, Is that the Humphreys executor thing? You can only fire them for certain reasons?

[Joe Getty]

I think so, yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Such as?

[Joe Getty]

You know, speaking of things I'm bad at and good at, I'm pretty good at understanding the legal concepts behind a lot of the big decisions. I can never remember the damn name. Dred Scott. I remember Roe v. Wade. I remember that one.

[Jack Armstrong]

And it doesn't matter. But basically the idea is that these agencies that didn't exist when we founded the country, but have grown up over the years and they're part of the executive branch. Well, can the head of the executive branch fire them? And most of my favorite constitutional thinkers say of course he can. It has been tradition that you don't fire them except for a good reason. You know, kind of like Washington stepping down after two terms was a tradition for a very long time until somebody, FDR tried to do it a different way. But Trump has come along and said, no, I'm the executive, I can, I want somebody different, I'm going to fire him. And I don't think there's any, going to be any legal reason, constitutional reason. He can't.

[Joe Getty]

Well imagine a bureaucracy that's built that nobody can fire them, Congress can't. It's a quasi independent agency.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, that. Well, then you get to specifically the wrinkle being the Federal Reserve. The Court has suggested over years that the Fed, unlike other agencies, is uniquely protected from, from political interference. But constitutionally that doesn't make any sense. The Fed Was designed not that long ago in our nation's history. You just kind of built an agency that the chief executive appoints the guy in charge, but then can't fire them. That doesn't really make any constitutional sense, and it'll be interesting to see what they decide.

[Joe Getty]

I get the desire for organizations that are not whipsawed by political whimsical or. Right. Well, then administrations change, but there's got to be a specific constitutional justification for it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. Or you've got a fourth branch of government. That's the Federal Reserve. Right. That's its own thing. That's an interesting one to me. Pair of cases about transgender stuff from Idaho and West Virginia. The supreme court will consider whether states can ban transgender athletes from girls and women's sports teams.

[Joe Getty]

Do you mean boys in girls and women's sports? Yes. You can ban males from girl sports? Yes, you can. Of course you can. Anybody who thinks you can't is a lunatic.

[Jack Armstrong]

The cases examine whether such bands unlawfully discriminate on the basis of sex and.

[Joe Getty]

Transgender status near either a boy or a girl. The chatgpt, by the way, said there are a couple of cases about transgender rights and then phrased it in a way that was very, very friendly to the radical left. One of the cases I talked about a fair amount during hour one of the show, Charles v. Salazar, and that's about Colorado has banned counselors from saying to minors, you know, you're obviously a boy. You're telling me you want to be a girl. Let's talk about some of the things going on in your life, and maybe you could be comfortable with being a boy. That's illegal in Colorado. Now, if you want to say yes, let's remove your, you know, in the case of a. A young woman, let's remove your healthy breasts. Let's start pumping you full of hormones and puberty blockers. You have 100% latitude specifically under the law, to push them down the path of transgender madness. You may not say, you know, a lot of people grow out of this. Let's talk about, you know, being comfortable with yourself and the other things happening in your life. It is one of the most egregious, horrifying free speech cases I've ever seen. And the fact that the. I think it was the 10th Circuit, in a 2 to 1 ruling, said, no. That's just like saying a doctor can't be incompetent in suturing an incision. It's not a speech limitation. It's just a medical regulation is. Oh, my God. I I'm enraged by that and I pray this goes the right way. God, it's so obscene, the transgender thing. It's gone from a vanishingly small number of confused people to here is the doctrine, and if you do not obey it, we will jail you in Colorado in the blink of an eye.

[Jack Armstrong]

What do you think they'll do on the whole boys and girls sports thing?

[Joe Getty]

They'll ban them immediately. Like the Olympic Committee has, like Europe has, like the NCAA has at this point.

[Jack Armstrong]

And that's what a lot of these schools are hoping for, so that they can do what the parents, most of the parents want, probably oftentimes what they want, but they just don't want to take the heat from the, the LGBTQ community. That can come down hard on you.

[Joe Getty]

Right? Well, that and like in California, there are plenty of school districts that want desperately to have boys playing boys sports and girls playing girl sp. But the state law passed by Gavin Newsom and Scott Weiner and his gender bending lunatics is that. No, it's whatever gender you want to declare yourself, you can, you can play idiotic.

[Jack Armstrong]

There's a comedian. What's his name? He's one of your really famous comedians. Got a British accent on Netflix guy. Anyway, he was, I was watching his show the other night. Said he's down with all of the. All of it. The lgbtq, down with all of. Except the plus, not the blood. Plus, you're weirdos and I want you to stay away from my kids. The plus. What is wrong with you?

[Joe Getty]

That is kind of funny. Oh, one of that sort of activists post posted online recently and we'll, we'll play some of her words of wisdom for you next. It's hilarious.

[Jack Armstrong]

Cool. Got all that on the way.

[Joe Getty]

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[Jack Armstrong]

What did you think of the Trump peace plan that was submitted? What did you think of it? Honestly, I haven't been paying much attention to it, but do you think that they should take the deal? I don't know. I think they should. I don't know. That's hilarious.

[Joe Getty]

That is a pro Palestinian activist who has no idea what the journalist is talking about. And he was in front of a bunch of people chanting, Free, Free Palestine. Bouncing up and down and chanting and waving their transgender flags and their rainbow flags and dressed in all sorts of outlandish gear that will get them executed the minute they hit the ground in Gaza.

[Jack Armstrong]

Queers for Palestine. So you. You're into the cause enough to spend your Saturday there, but you're unaware of the biggest story in the world, that is this whole peace plan?

[Joe Getty]

Well, it's because you're not actually into the story or the issue. You're part of the eternal omnicause, but.

[Jack Armstrong]

Good Lord, you'd almost have to work to avoid it.

[Joe Getty]

Well, I know, I know. Well, you'd have to be just completely uninterested in the news. But the eternal omnicause in which all radical leftists join together and support each other. Good example here. This is body positivity activist Tess Tillman, who's at some sort of conference. Significant audience there. It's being, you know, distributed online as well. This gal is at least 500 pounds and maybe six.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay, can we get a weight on her before I hear the clip?

[Joe Getty]

She's a body positivity activist.

[Jack Armstrong]

All right.

[Joe Getty]

And here's what she had to say.

[Katie Green]

And I feel like if you're quiet when so many injustices are happening, not just here, but Palestine, Sudan, Congo, etc.

[Joe Getty]

Etc.

[Katie Green]

Then I literally blocked my brother yesterday. I'm not speaking to my mom, my stepmom, my dad. I'm collecting them like Pokemon. I'm like, who can I block next?

[Joe Getty]

And it.

[Katie Green]

It stinks. But I just think that you have to stand for something. And I think as you get older or mature, and I feel like you guys are already far more mature than I was at your age.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow. So the Omni cause clearly makes sense to those people. Yes, in the way that it makes zero sense to me. So you're wanting people to accept you. Being £600 is a good thing. And that's tied into Hamas, we.

[Joe Getty]

And. And queer rights and transgender children. Yes. It's all one Cause it's the Omni. Cause there's another clip of her.

[Katie Green]

You have to stand for what matters to you. And when you see things happening, you have to say something. In my opinion, and I understand that there's like safety concerns and I have a lot of privilege as a CIS white woman saying those things, but I just, I can't stay silent. I never will. I said yesterday, like, the right people will find you, the right opportunities will find you, the right friends will find you, the right jobs will find you. And it's not worth a check to compromise your integrity.

[Joe Getty]

She's a cultist.

[Jack Armstrong]

Thank you for that. Well, yeah, I was going to say the first of all, the word things carries a lot of weight there. When you see things being done, would you like to list those things or describe them?

[Joe Getty]

But as a CIS white woman, please, with her privilege.

[Jack Armstrong]

This needs to be really studied because this is a new phenomenon. I think I get, you know, at the level where you're an actual Marcus Marxist and you're just taking on anything that can tear down the system, but these people, in their mind, somehow it makes sense to them to combine Hamas, trans, boys in sports, being overweight and hey, isn't it cool? Yeah, all of these things go together in your world. Oh, ice, not kicking out illegals. All these things fit together in your world. How?

[Joe Getty]

Well, right, that's, that's the fascinating part of it to me and I agree it needs to be studied more. Although James Lindsay's done some great writing about in Helen Pluckrose and others. But I get the hardcore Marxists who just want to tear down western civilization, build a, you know, communist paradise. But how they convince soft heads, right, that this all makes sense and you're a good person for advocating for the permanent omnicause. And the people don't ever ask themselves, hey, what is like being £600 and being happy about it have to do with queers, to do with Palestine, to.

[Jack Armstrong]

Do with immigration, or hey, Hamas murders gay people.

[Joe Getty]

So right, like all the time.

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[Joe Getty]

They got one shot at it. No pressure on the quarterback. It's got time to heave it.

[Jack Armstrong]

There's a whole pack of people there and it's incomplete and there's no flag. And that was the end of the Eagles perfect season. Just like the Bills had theirs come to an end. So to me, for me, the NFL got a lot more interesting yesterday. Eagles and Bills both lost. Now you got a whole bunch of teams at that are four and one.

[Joe Getty]

Two quick notes. Number one, the Eagles have been very shaky. They've been winning by the skin of their teeth. They have no offense and they were exposed yesterday. Secondly, the Mark Sanchez thing. If you don't know what we're talking about, Google it. Famous ex quarterback color commentator Fox Sports arrested stab I just saw the pictures in the New York post of the 69 year old truck driver.

[Jack Armstrong]

I did too.

[Joe Getty]

Horrible. Sanchez brutalized him.

[Jack Armstrong]

Apparently what looks like happened, you know, maybe more details come out. Although Sanchez has been charged with the felony. Looks like Sanchez was mad at the guy for parking somewhere that got in his way or something like that. So he beat as an NFL player, former NFL player. He beat the crap out of an old man who ended up pulling a knife to try to keep him. He would have died, he would have been beaten to death if he hadn't pulled a knife f Sanchez. Based on what I know. Unless some new details come forward, right? Speaking of football players, Travis Kelsey's fiance best song on the album is song 10, the title track, Showgirls. I dig that song, but I listen to that song 50 times over the weekend.

[Joe Getty]

Just put on some panties.

[Jack Armstrong]

Listen to you other thing that I did. So for whatever reason, I could not sleep Saturday night, Sunday morning. And at one point I realized, I just thought, you know, what are you doing here? You're not accomplishing anything. Let's just get up and go for a drive. So I got up at 4:00 in the morning, Sunday morning and got a cup of coffee and I went and drove. And I had started into Tucker Carlson's Documentary. Documentary series about 9 11. So he announced a couple of weeks ago he was doing a five part series on the real truth behind 9 11. And so that's what I did. In the middle of the dark night I was watching slash, listen, listening to Tucker Carlson's first two episodes of his documentary. It's. I got, I got hooked into it first of all by watching a little Charlie Sheen on Tucker's show. I didn't know Charlie Sheen's a full conspiracy guy. And they got into 911 and the real truth behind 9 11. And Charlie Sheen didn't buy it from the beginning. And his line was, look, I do fiction for a living. I knew I know fiction when I spot it. And Tucker Carlson was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, slow down, let's say that again because that's really good. No, you do notion for a living. You can spot it when you see it. That's right. Well, that's profound. Whatever.

[Joe Getty]

What a crock.

[Jack Armstrong]

Anyway, the documentary is damned interesting and like a lot of stuff Tucker Carlson does, it's really well done. He's got a lot of money and he's got talented producers and everything like that. The reason I'm talking about and I wanted to bring it up is there is one thing that I about the whole 911 thing that I think is very plausible. Like I'm not into the why did Building 7 not fall? And I don't think the Jews are behind it. Which I have a feeling is where this whole thing is going. The ultimate point of Tucker's documentary I think is going to be the Israelis are behind it. Just like they're behind killing Charlie Kirk and everything else. But I do think that there's a decent chance, and this is very similar to the COVID thing that the CIA was working a bunch of Saudis that they thought they had their eye on, could keep control of. They got away from them somehow and pulled this off. And they don't want to get caught. It's kind of like Fauci and his, you know, coronavirus experimentations that got loose on him. And they want to protect that agency. They don't want to have people that were, you know, well, meaning in the first place in, in, in his Fauci's mind, you know, get caught up in something wasn't their fault. I think the CIA ended up in a situation and the Saudis and the Israelis, everybody was like keeping an eye on these people and it got loose. They just. And they don't want to get burnt to the ground for you knew all about these guys. You were tracking them around, you helped them. It. It's kind of like the Michigan assassination plot of the governor at. At some point.

[Joe Getty]

Kidnap. Yeah, they were going to kidnap and probably dispatcher. Right? Yeah, yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

At some point you got, you had so many FBI agents in there. It's like who was leading who on this whole thing. But there's a lot of CIA it would seem, or, or Israeli agents or Saudi Arabia was trying to keep on these people like helping them get various paperwork and apartments and everything like that so they could try to uncover a plot. And it gets very. I think that all could very well be true.

[Joe Getty]

You know that. Yeah, it could be. It could be. Evidence is not proof. And like that thing Tucker said, as if that's convincing on any level as well. If you have a soft head, you're convinced by that. But I, I just, I was. I think it's interesting you bring that up because I was just reading Laura Loomer who I think is half a nut activist, Trumpy Maga influencer person.

[Jack Armstrong]

Has Trump. Has Trump's ear is the important part.

[Joe Getty]

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. She has been going after Tucker Carlson. She now calls him Tucker Katarlson because she's convinced he's on the take from the Qataris who famously spent billions and billions of dollars on lobbying and, and influencing universities and, and that sort of thing. She says he's been bought off by the Muslim Brotherhood which is now why he's always hinting darkly that the Jews were in charge of everything and, and trying to say, you know, 911 was an inside job and wasn't, you know, Muslims and blah blah blah. She, he denies it of course, but she's going after like everybody. The infighting in mag is so interesting. Accused Marjorie Taylor Greene of funneling government money to her own daughter and called her a loud mouthed bitch. Well, that's direct. See, she says she's being targeted because she is Jewish. I think she took a shot at Candace Owens too. I can't remember.

[Jack Armstrong]

MTG the other day said he. She thinks they're the Israelis have a plot to kill her.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I heard.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yipes. Yeah, things are not getting more normal and more in easy to understand and separate fact from fiction. It's, it's God dang it, we're in a crazy spot that I don't see how we ever get out of. I mean humankind. Just the way information travels.

[Joe Getty]

And these reporters in the Wall Street Journal practically call her a racist because of her warnings about Islam, Islamists and Islamic immigration to Europe. And other places as if there's not, you know, something to be said there.

[Jack Armstrong]

I think so. Tucker's third, it's a five part series. His third one comes out this week. I think his big money shot at the end is going to be it was the Israelis that attacked us. If it is, that's going to be exciting.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Yeah. Old Candace Owens, who's saying it was the Jews that killed Charlie Kirk, said supporters of Israel were scraping the very bottom of the barrel. And at the bottom is Laura Loomer.

[Jack Armstrong]

And the again from the people. The mainstream media always says the MAGA crowd, but that is way too vague. Who's the MAGA crowd? Because Laura Loomis of vague as mag as you can get. But so Candace Owens. Right. I mean, so. And they, they hate each other. So. I don't know.

[Joe Getty]

Charleson.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't even know what MAGA crowd means. But the crowd that thinks the Jews killed Charlie Kirk and they're setting up this poor kid in Utah to be executed. And as you can see, they're rushing it through. They just need to get him. They need to get him killed before he can speak is the story.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, man, there's a lot of crazy going on.

[Jack Armstrong]

I know it's. And it used to. I used to ignore it or laugh about it. I'm just concerned now that there's enough people that believe this stuff that you got to take it seriously. Don't take it seriously as being real. Take it seriously as enough people believe it that it's going to have consequences. Right.

[Joe Getty]

You got to be aware of it at least.

[Jack Armstrong]

Consequences in terms of, I don't know, violent militias or the way people vote or what. But I don't see how we ever get out of this. Like the Barry Weiss thing. So her free press, it would seem, grew so quickly because there's a hunger out there for a news organization you can trust. There's a lot of people that don't have a hunger for that. I don't know who's going to win that race if you guys just coexist.

[Joe Getty]

Uncomfortably till the end of time.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't know if that'll work. I mean, if you have 10 to 15% on both sides who don't want the truth and that adds up to 30%. That's a lot of people have no interest in voting on base on anything that's real.

[Joe Getty]

I don't, I don't love our chances. No. Boy, things are getting weird. And they're getting weird fast.

[Jack Armstrong]

Open AI just invested a ton of money in a different chip manufacturer or it's the other way around. Doesn't make any difference to compete with Nvidia and their work that they're doing with their AI platform. So there is another giant trading money back and forth AI thing that's going to lead to even more craziness on the Internet. Yeah, I mean, you know, the Democrats wearing sombreros and big bushy mustaches is one thing, but the stuff that you see, this video of the guy walking away from the school, you can tell he's an FBI agent, you know, that sort of stuff. That's what we got to watch out for.

[Joe Getty]

Ah, yeah. Again, we're doomed. I just. You gotta figure out how to craft a happy life in the midst of the doom.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, I'm close to the grave, so it'll be easy for me. I don't know about my kids though.

[Joe Getty]

They'll. They'll adapt and overcome. They're resourceful like human beings always have.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's what I'm gonna do when I kick him out the door and they turn 18. Adapt and overcome. Let me know.

[Joe Getty]

Okay?

[Jack Armstrong]

We will finish strong.

[Joe Getty]

Next Armstrong and Getty.

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[Joe Getty]

It was once one of America's largest pharmacy chains, but now Rite Aid is no more. The last of its stores closed on Friday. Rite Aid had filed for bankruptcy protection twice in the past two years.

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The company had already signed sold most.

[Joe Getty]

Of its pharmacy services to rivals including CVS and WalGreens. Founded in 1962, at one time Rite.

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Aid operated more than 5,000 stores.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow. 5,000 stores across the country were Rite Aids and now it's gone. Capitalism, man comes and goes, Jack.

[Joe Getty]

It's the end of an era. An era in which there were Rite aids. I'm Joe Getty. I'm calling this the There aren't any.

[Jack Armstrong]

More Rite AIDS era.

[Joe Getty]

So I called this the headline of the day. During the opening segment of the show, plane forced to land after wacko wearing 15 masks screams that gay people were giving him cancer.

[Jack Armstrong]

15 is a lot of masks.

[Joe Getty]

That's plenty. A New Jersey bound plane was forced to divert after an unruly passenger wearing over a dozen face masks began ranting that gay people were giving him cancer, according to a fellow who is sitting across. Well, that's the question, right? Are you or are you not a gay and be giving this man cancer? Fellow passenger, excuse me, sitting across the aisle from the nut, told the Minnesota Star Tribune it was on its way from Minneapolis to Newark that the chaos started the moment the plane took off when this guy started raving about being gang chased by gay people, whatever that means. The man also screamed that he was being radiated and cooked by gays and that they were giving him cancer. According to the witness, perhaps to stave off the supposed onslaught, the crackpot was wearing, quote, no less than 15 masks over his mouth, according to the fellow pass.

[Jack Armstrong]

15 masks is a lot of masks.

[Joe Getty]

At one point, the man even announced.

[Jack Armstrong]

You got to put on 10 and think, you know what? I think I'll put on five more.

[Joe Getty]

You get to a dozen, you think.

[Jack Armstrong]

Nope, nope, not enough.

[Joe Getty]

At one point, the man even announced, trump is here. Well, but screaming diluted conspiracies about the gays wasn't all the man was good for. Between each outburst, he buckled down and played a round of Candy Crush before standing up and starting to yell again at top volume.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'd be pretty frightened sitting next to a guy acting like that because somebody that crazy is capable of anything.

[Joe Getty]

Right? Right. And. But everybody'd had enough, including the crew, when the guy started saying, this plane is going down, it's going down. At which they said, all right, radioactive gay people is one thing, but now you can't be yelling that. So they landed in Chicago and the marshals came on, arrested the guy, and off they went to scenic Newark, New Jersey.

[Jack Armstrong]

I thought a buy guy was trying to give me high blood pressure once, but I didn't put on any masks.

[Joe Getty]

You can't turn your back on him, right? That is, man, that is a different kind of crazy.

[Jack Armstrong]

God, I'd say, what did that look like? Are there any pictures? How did he get them I have a mouth holes to match up in.15 masks. So he could even breathe.

[Joe Getty]

I'm not aware of any pics being taken.

[Jack Armstrong]

And whenever they subdued him and take off his mask. And the next one. Okay, and that one too.

[Joe Getty]

That had to be quite the magician with the scarf act. Similar. Similar deal.

[Jack Armstrong]

Or those little Russian cups. It just keeps getting smaller and smaller.

[Joe Getty]

And I don't want a stereotype, but our gay friends. If you are giving people cancer or radiating them, please stop. It's just rude.

[Jack Armstrong]

Geez. Again, are there more crazy people on planes than there used to be or is it just getting into the news more often because the media figured out crazy's on plane is a hot click thing?

[Joe Getty]

Oh, yeah, yeah. And minor incidents on Tarmax is now huge too. Although there have been a couple that were borderline scary. But yeah, it's hot. I just think it's hot.

[Jack Armstrong]

Remember I saw my crazy guy in the plane. First one I'd ever seen in my life. Last flight I took, guy was screaming at the woman. Plan better.

[Joe Getty]

All right. Oh, it was the. Do you mind switching seats?

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah, right?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

And then I sat down to this young guy who was really hoping to fight. Where is he? I mean, chomping his gum like he was. Oh, my God.

[Joe Getty]

Kind of makes you want to stay at home.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'm glad you're here to fight the crazy up there, but you seem a little crazy yourself. So can I sit somewhere where there aren't any crazy people?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Can I upgrade?

[Jack Armstrong]

Never mind.

[Joe Getty]

Legroom. I'm not very tall, but I would like to be away from the freaking crazy.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's what they need to have on United. Not the $10. You go from 49 to $69, you get a little more leg room. I want a little more distance between me and the mentally ill. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Michael, how much time do we have? None of us know how much time we have. Yeah, it's a good point. Now, we're about to start right now, actually. Oh, okay. Never mind. I was going to try to squeeze in one more story, but never mind. We've now entered Final Thoughts with your host, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

[Jack Armstrong]

Here's your host for Final Thoughts, Joe Getty.

[Joe Getty]

Hey, let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew to wrap up the show for the day. There he is, pressing the buttons. Michelangelo, our technical director. Michael, a final thought, please. I'm feeling kind of sad, actually. Rite Aid going out of business. Childhood memory. We'd go with my mom, my sister, my brother. We'd Go get thrifty ice cream there. And it was would be, you know, the triple scoop.

[Jack Armstrong]

There you go.

[Joe Getty]

Oh yeah, that was a big deal. Wow. Please. We couldn't even afford a cone when I was a kid. Lifestyles of the rich and famous. Katie Green, our esteemed newswoman has a final thought. Katie, I am disappointed in the Internet.

[Katie Green]

In the day and age when we film everything, there is not one photo.

[Joe Getty]

Or video of 15 Mask Man.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, I need to see this.

[Joe Getty]

What are the passengers on the flight thinking? Yeah, tape it to take pictures. Come on social media. Come on, Jack. Final thought.

[Jack Armstrong]

So I was watching that Tucker Carlson documentary. It's a conspiracy thing. And I'll tell you what, those things scare me because you can feel yourself being pulled into a conspiracy. Wow, that is interesting how she was his uncle's financial guy or whatever and it's just weird how it affects your brain.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, yeah. And people who do those things know how to do them. They know what levers. Well, my final thought, I talked about my near plumbing disaster earlier in the show. You can fake a lot of things in home repair or get them almost right, but you can't fake plumbing. That water can come out. It's coming out.

[Jack Armstrong]

On the other hand, don't hire a plumber to replace your $2 flapper. It's not that hard.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, oh yeah. You can learn to do a lot of that stuff. You just have to be reasonably careful and not be absent minded and tired because you were up too late at a concert the previous night. That's my advice.

[Jack Armstrong]

You failed to put one piece back in.

[Joe Getty]

That is a. I failed to tighten it down.

[Jack Armstrong]

Gotcha.

[Joe Getty]

Second time. Man, that was tighter than a frog's butt. But you really got to do it right the first time with plumbing.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's quite an expression. Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.

[Joe Getty]

You see if they're cloaca was looser Jack it'd be inundated with water.

[Jack Armstrong]

They need to be watertight.

[Joe Getty]

Indeed. So many people to thank, so little time. Go to armstrong yeti.com a lot of great clicks for you.

[Jack Armstrong]

Drop us a note would you mailbag@armstrong.

[Joe Getty]

Yeti.Com what do you think of those comedians go to going to Saudi Arabia specifically Dave Chappelle who bad mouthed America from Saudi. Come on, come on.

[Jack Armstrong]

We'll see you tomorrow. God bless America.

[Joe Getty]

Armstrong and Getty.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's.

[Joe Getty]

It's really serious.

[Jack Armstrong]

They're locking up my toothpaste.

[Joe Getty]

The devil ain't gonna win. No, no, that's not what I was told, so everybody chill.

[Jack Armstrong]

Just shut up.

[Joe Getty]

Okay, okay. Sorry. So let's go out with a bang. We're gonna smear goose liver on our chests to prevent pneumonia and the consumption.

[Jack Armstrong]

Then we're gonna kill a bison and spread the blood on our foreheads and dance around a tree. No, that's not a good idea. On that high note, thank you all very much.

[Joe Getty]

Armstrong and Getty.

[Katie Green]

This is an I Heart podcast.