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Joe Getty
And now here's Armstrong and Getty.
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Are there still concerns about mines in the strait?
Jana Kramer
And can you kind of clarify these reports of kamikaze dolphins that we've heard about?
Jack Armstrong
I haven't heard the kamikaze dolphin thing. It's like sharks with laser beams, right?
Military Official
And I can't confirm or deny whether we have kamikaze dolphins, but I can confirm they don't. Ultimately.
Jack Armstrong
There you go.
Joe
That answer settled. Kamikaze dolphin question. I was wrong about the last 24 hours, definitely. I thought it was going to be a very, very hot day of trading ordinance and did not happen. It started kind of exciting and we talked about it while we were on the show yesterday, but then nothing really. The rest of the day, no more ships went through, which is not good for our whole. We're not escorting. What is the term we use?
Jack Armstrong
Guide.
Joe
We'll guide ships through the strait, but no more ships got guided through the strait.
Jack Armstrong
Boy, if I hire a guide and he says, you go over there, I'm not going over there. I'm like, I thought you're a guide. Yeah, but I'm not an escort. I mean, what is that? I don't know. Secretary Pete explains Michael in clip 60. Kind of to restart the free flow
Military Official
of commerce through the street of Hormuz under the umbrella of Project Freedom. To be clear, this operation is separate and distinct from Operation Epic Fury. Project Freedom is defensive in nature, focused in scope, and temporary in duration, with one mission, protecting innocent commercial shipping from Iranian aggression. American forces won't need to enter Iranian waters or airspace. It's not necessary. We're not looking for a fight. But Iran also cannot be allowed to block innocent countries and their goods from an international waterway.
Joe
I don't know if he and if
Jack Armstrong
there is a fight, our kamikaze dolphins will settle. Oh, shoot. I wasn't supposed to say anything.
Joe
I don't know if he explained it at some point, but as listening to a rundown of what we got, we got all kinds of destroyers and ships and this and that and Apache here and 15,000 guys just with Project Freedom, which this is, as he said, distinct from Epic Fury, an Apache, helicopters and all this different sort of stuff. But it seems like, I don't know if anybody's explained, it seems like no ships tried to go through. So I don't know if that was the crews, not the captains and crews not feeling comfortable with the idea. But are the insurance companies saying no or what?
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I heard one expert say, yeah, it's less about the insurance companies now and more about the human beings on those ships. They're like, I'm not doing it.
Joe
Well, I could, I could get that.
Jack Armstrong
And, you know, all it takes is really a couple of big votes to veto.
Joe
Well, I gotta.
Jack Armstrong
You've got to have everybody agree. Yeah, this is a good idea. Here we go.
Joe
I don't know, but I would imagine you're an employee of some sort and you get paid the same whether you go through or whether you sit there because you can't go through. I doubt your employer, whoever that is, is saying, hey, either you go through or we're not paying you. I doubt that is happening.
Jack Armstrong
No, no.
Joe
So, yeah, if I'm getting paid the same either way, how about we wait until we're certain? How about we let a watch a couple more ships go through without being fired upon before we go through. I'll just go back to my cabin and, you know, play whatever game on my phone.
Jack Armstrong
Right, Exactly. Yeah. I would be sorely tempted to be the fifth, not the first or second. Right, right. Roll on, Michael. The next clip.
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Mr. Secretary, do you assess what's left
Jack Armstrong
of this small boat fleet to be a significant threat or a NUIS managed?
Military Official
Any threat needs to be taken seriously.
Joe Getty
And.
Military Official
And just like those six attack boats that the chairman mentioned were taken seriously and dealt with before there were any real threat to the American military vessels that they were approaching, and that is small craft like that are all that Iran has left. Their ability to get close with a destroyer of the capabilities that we have is, is limited. But we're going to take it very seriously and kinetically quickly. We're not going to allow a threat to gather.
Joe
Now let's listen to or watching a news show yesterday, Mark Halpern's afternoon news show, which is really, really good if you don't ever watch it, it's only on YouTube or whatever channel he has. Anyway, the two guests he add on, who are very nonpartisan sort of ghosts, they both said there's only one way to get this open back up to full traffic, and that is for us to go back to our full on bombing the crap out of them until we force something different, that's the only thing that's gonna do it. And I think that's probably right.
Jack Armstrong
I find the notion that we can accomplish it around a conference table utterly ridiculous. And I have a feeling Trump and company know that.
Joe
Getting fair opinions on this is so difficult. As I was listening to the Dispatch podcast yesterday, and one of my favorite writers, Kevin Williamson, smart guy, sober guy, but hates Trump so much, to my mind, is blinded by his hatred of Trump. He actually said. And I took it down because I thought it was so extraordinary, he said, I've always thought that our blockade has been profoundly silly. They blockaded the straits, so now we're gonna blockade their blockade. How does that make any sense?
Jack Armstrong
It makes perfect sense.
Joe
It makes perfect sense. And are you ignoring, I assume as a smart guy, you're reading all these articles and lots of Trump hating publications like the WaPo, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, whatever, talking about the economic damage that's being done, tremendous damage, every single day to Iran since we blockaded
Jack Armstrong
their blockade and whether they can hold out.
Joe
Calling that profoundly silly seems nutso to me. So, again, my only point being it's. It's hard to get fair opinions on this because some people are blinded by their love of or hate of Donald Trump.
Jack Armstrong
So can we open the strait? How's that going to one more clip?
Military Official
Iran has an ability to make that deal, but what we're demonstrating with Project Freedom is they don't control the strait. I mean, we know Iran is embarrassed by the fact that our blockade is holding and we can run ships through, and we're going to help the world run ships through. And if they hold it at issue, the whole world knows who's doing it. It's not us. We're willing to open it up. It's Iran. And that creates a dilemma for them. We hope they make a deal.
Joe
Yeah, we sent a couple of military ships through, you know, loaded for bear and ready to, you know, for World War iii. I mean, the arm, the, the firepower that we sent through there was amazing. That was part of what ended up blowing up those six little boats. But his other part, he said, has not happened yet. We can run ships through and we can guide other ships through. Okay, well, that's not happening yet. Until we start seeing that happening, then that part of the whole plan is not working yet.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, yeah, the part about they do not control the straight. If I live most of the way down a isolated country road, and I vow anybody who drives past My place will be shot on site. I don't control the road. Precisely. But until somebody's willing to go down
Joe
that road, I kind of do well. And to take that further, if I get on the other side of you and say, okay, now you're not driving down that road either. Okay, I'm. I might have the leverage at that point, but I still don't get to drive down the road yet.
Jack Armstrong
Right.
Joe
So we're in a bit of a standoff there. Somebody's got to force the issue and
Jack Armstrong
I might starve and therefore have to give in because I've got to get to town to get some food. Of course, if I was acting like I'm describing, I'd probably be some sort of survivalist. But anyway, to extend the metaphor. Right, but then you're saying, all right, you're going to act like that. You can't leave, you can't get food in or out. Kevin Williamson would call that profoundly silly. No, that would put me in a hell of a spot. Anyway, that's enough of that.
Joe
But it is a stare down. And, and I think what Pete said is not true yet. We can get ships through there. Haven't seen it. Two. Two. When it used to be 110 a day or whatever. It was supposed to be two so far. And going on 48 hours, it doesn't seem like much.
Jack Armstrong
Seems like a Mexican standoff coming up in a couple of minutes. A Mexican get the hell out of the water. Mexican sewage polluting the beaches of Southern California. I wasn't gonna go there, Johnny, but yes, that's correct. Wow.
Joe
And you're bringing that story to us on Cinco de Mayo, their Fourth of July, their cherished holiday.
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Jack Armstrong
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Joe
Incogni.com Armstrong My My final comment for now on the topic we were just on is unless a bunch of ships go through today, I think we look pretty bad. I think we look pretty bad.
Jack Armstrong
I give it a slightly greater timeline. If at the if the other parentheses is a serious escalation, an attack, a punishment that will get the attention of the irgc. Right. I don't understand what else there is unless they have intelligence and this is entirely possible that they are truly teetering on the brink of utter, utter fiscal disaster.
Joe
The presidential fitness test is back. Trump has brought it back. We'll talk about that and other things. So stay here.
Jack Armstrong
Armstrong and Getty.
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Jack Armstrong
aviation company is now conducting tests of an all electric air taxi to fly
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Jack Armstrong
That would be disconcerting.
Joe
Joe and I are very tired. We were up late at the Met Gala last night and again my outfit
Jack Armstrong
weighed 30 pounds so I'm just tuckered out.
Joe
I got a couple got to talk about some of the anti rich costumes that the various very rich and elite people wore last night. I have to get to that later.
Jack Armstrong
We're not buying it. Also, the new Animal Farm movie would make Orwell commit murder. Stay with us for that analysis. And the Democratic Party is absolutely and I'm trying to figure out which term to use that's most helpful to helping people understand the Democratic Party is absolutely the Islamist party of America. Or do you prefer Muslim supremacist? I kind of like that term because folks understand that framework you don't have to explain to them what Islamism is, which is the desire to implement Sharia law and take over the country and stamp out every religion but Islam, etc. Etc. Muslim supremacists. So I will make that case powerfully with the aid of some of the most serious writers and thinkers and publications in America. But first, Mexican poop. So do you know where Coronado, California is? It's a strip of island essentially right in San Diego, right there by the bay and everything.
Joe
Every year of my kids lives practically, I've taken a little boat over there, Dave's little boat, our friend Dave who lives down there and taking a little boat over there and walked around and had a barbecue sandwich and bought some trinkets and had a good time on that beautiful, beautiful, pristine beach. The some of the most pristine beaches in California.
Jack Armstrong
What's that I'm hearing?
Joe
Something from the studio?
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Oh yeah. I too have downed a cocktail or two while looking out on the beauty of God's creation. Jack.
Joe
Their fourth of July festivity is fantastic, by the way.
Jack Armstrong
Fantastic. So I usually hate when articles have to open with a specific person's experience, because they all do now for some reason. Just tell me what's happening. But in this case, I kind of like it. Kristin Cohen draped towels over beach chairs on the white sand, eager to take her daughter Chloe into the ocean. A yellow sign stopped her cold water contact may cause illness. I guess we can't do that, babe, she told her three and a half year old who stared back confused, then got a nice pop as consolation, which, you know, it's not a great deal, but it's a good deal anyway. Such signs are now a fixture in Coronado, an upscale resort city on a slender peninsula in San Diego Bay known for some of America's best beaches. But its legendary waters are increasingly off limits, fouled by sewage, tainted wastewater as much as. How do you feel about 30 million gallons a day from neighboring Mexico of poo poo water? Yes, 30 million gallons a day. You know, granted the Pacific Ocean is very large, but if you're next to
Joe
it, how can we not stop them from doing that?
Jack Armstrong
Like immediately send to the Navy SEALs or, you know, bomb them back to the Incan age or Mayans or something. Here's a retired surgeon and surfer, 63 years old, who just ended up leaving Coronado because of the sewage mostly. It was heaven on earth and now I call it Paradise Lost, he says. All kinds of trash you would see floating in the ocean. Food wrappers, bottles, clothing. Once In a while you even see a piece of crap fecal matter. It gets better. The stench wafts ashore. Larry Delrose, entertainment director at the Coronado Shores condo community, shuts his windows two or three nights a week. It smells like, you know, sore, he said, looking out at the murky ocean as his phone sounded. Blah, blah, blah.
Joe
Wow, man, you, you spent whatever you got to spend to have a condo where you, you're there on the nice beach and smelling the ocean. Then all of a sudden this happens. That'd be very, very maddening.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. The border metropolis of Tijuana has more than doubled in population over the last 30 years to 2.3 million.
Joe
Did not know that.
Jack Armstrong
And its sewage infrastructure cannot keep up. Raw sewage mixed with wastewater pours into the Pacific and Dr. Along the beaches of southern San Diego. Wow.
Joe
Raw sewage, like straight from the toilet into the ocean.
Jack Armstrong
Gross adequately. Treating the sewage on both sides of the border would cost an estimated $1 billion. Congress has appropriated more than 300 million so far. Everybody's mad at the Mexicans, they're mad at the American government for not doing more. And the mayor said, look, small businesses are already losing revenue and more to worse, if the water isn't cleaned up soon, quote, when the reputation sticks that it' dirty to come here, it's going to be a huge problem.
Joe
Oh heck yeah.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
Joe
I've done 4th of July a couple of times on there at Coronado and I mean it's packed full of people that come from all over because it's, it's fantastic because the military base there, you got the military bands and music and the, it's so, it's like one of the most patriotic, coolest fourth of July. But I wouldn't go, I wouldn't take the dinghy across now with all the sewer water.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, the weather's perfect. 363 days a year. Yeah. Now folks who are familiar with that area know Imperial beach, which is right on the border which has long had a E. Coli cock out problem. But now it's floating further and further north.
Joe
Wait, build a wall in the water?
Jack Armstrong
I don't know.
Joe
You want to have sewage there? Mexico, Go ahead.
Jack Armstrong
Listen to this. I almost left these stats out. Silver Strand State beach, which is right next to where Navy SEALS drill had unsafe fe bacteria levels. 265 days last year. 265.
Joe
God, I wonder what it'll be like this 4th of July which is coming up because it's the 250th birthday. So it's going to be a big deal. And right there in those waters, everybody goes out in their boats and so many boats are tied together and blasting their stereos. And then they do the, the, the Navy seals do their parachute jump. And I mean, there's so many cool things that go there for 4th of July.
Jack Armstrong
I wonder if anybody, how many people
Joe
are going to go out there when the water's full of poo.
Jack Armstrong
And are you going to spend $1,000 a night at the historic Hotel del Coronado if you've got to swim in a toilet? Probably not.
Joe
If you've got to swim in a toilet, it's crap.
Jack Armstrong
It's crap.
Joe
It's crap.
Jack Armstrong
That's not a marine biologist right there. Yeah. So the Democratic party is giving way to Islamism or Muslim supremacy and communists. Uh, holy crap. I'll bring the receipts. Coming up in a couple of minutes.
Joe
And tell your kids to practice their pull ups. The presidential fitness test is back. According to Trump,
Jack Armstrong
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Jack Armstrong
What that is Mayor Mamdani of New York City who is what I call an Islamianist. He is a Muslim supremacist. He would seek to overthrow Western civilization in the name of Sharia law and he is banded together with Marxists, far leftist progressives, whatever you want to call them, in what's known as the Red Green Alliance. More on that in a moment or two. The following segment is going to be quite serious. Serious until we play something very very amusing for you. Think you'll enjoy it a great deal. I said earlier that the Democratic Party is rapidly becoming the party of Muslim supremacists in the United States. And I absolutely believe that there are examples all over the place. Here are just a handful of them. Here is this New Jersey guy who's running for Congress and looking quite, quite strong in the race. He's a New Jersey plastic surgeon named Adam Hammawi. He is interestingly an Army, a former army combat physician. Here are a couple things to know about Dr. Adam. He did a tour of duty working at Gaza's European Hospital in 2024, was there for roughly three weeks amid a period of intense fighting between Israel and Hamas. When he returned to the US he became the go to expert for left wing media outlets seeking to rebut reports that Hamas terrorists use hospitals as command centers and operate terror cells underneath them. Something so self evident, Jack, that and well known that the Clintons have talked about it for years and years. But he told a couple of different places, including the far left Jacobin Socialist magazine, Red Green Alliance. Hello. I saw no fighters at all. I didn't see any guns in the hospital. No one I could identify as a combatant. There were definitely no tunnels underground and no command base there. And this isn't just me. This is unanimous. Everybody that's coming back, people who are at the Shifa hospital, people at the Nazra hospital, there's been no evidence to actually show that anyone like that was there. Shortly after his visit. When he got back, Hamas leader Sinwar, a Mastermind of the October 7 terror attack, was killed in a tunnel directly under the hospital's emergency department. No way where he was leading a high level meeting with many senior Hamas terrorists. In addition to Sinwar, the commander of another brigade was killed in the strike, as was South Khan Eunice Battalion commander Mahdi Quarrel. The New York Times was given a tour of the bombed out terror hideout a month later publishing a piece titled the tunnel that leads underneath a hospital in Southern Gaza. Moving along, this fellow also back in the day when he was a 26 year old medical student, the Blind Sheik, remember him? Sheik Amar Abdul Rahman, who planned and carried out the first World Trade center bombing. This guy testified on his behalf at the behest of the lawyers to deny that the Blind Sheikh had called for the murder of President Hosni Bubarak in Egypt. Or a couple of other things. The New York Times reporting on his participation in the trial at the time. Dozens of pages of testimony reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon reveal a years long relationship between the congressional candidate and the Jihadist leader in the 80s and 90s. Just lovely. That's fine. We've talked about Michigan Senate hopeful Abdul El Sayad, who I believe is leading now in the Democratic primary to run for the Senate in Michigan. Not the state Senate, the United States Senate. And this is the guy who said, hey, we shouldn't comment on the death of the Ayatollah because a lot of people around here are sad. He suggested at a campaign event that terrorists commit heinous acts because they feel pain and frustration and a lack of agency due to the hypocritical US that is creating pain and is is creating the terrorism, blah blah blah. He is a dedicated Muslim supremacist. He is justified terrorism and celebrating attacks on multiple levels. Here's another one. Here's his longtime spokesperson, defended the looting of American cities, savaged white Ann Arbor people and signal boosted messages slamming police departments as the biggest gangs in America. This is the Red Green alliance again. This is this red haired white girl, overeducated, affluent, et cetera. It's funny how what a type these people are. Let's see, she shared a media post social media posts calling you to fund systematically systemically racist police departments. Lashed out at white Ann Arbor people who pressed her on those views. Let me be very clear. The police are instigating violence across the country. People are responding. That's what happened. That's what's happening. People are really upset about stolen goods when America exists because of theft, stolen land, stolen black bodies, stolen labor and stolen wages. She went on to post if one more white Ann Arbor person dm's me asking why I'm defending looting, I'm seriously gonna explode. Your racism is showing. Check yourselves. I'm not holding back on this S anymore. I'm dropping names if you keep it up. Up she posted dedicated Marxist and she's the chief spokesperson for a desert dedicated Islamist. Which brings us to a very good piece by Noah Rothman in the national the Islamic Revolution's Red Green alliance comes to America despite his own visceral contempt for their adherents, the future Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran. This is the Ayatollah Khomeini. This is back in the day, the og he found usefulness in integrating the influence of the leftist ideologies that had made such a mark on the Middle east over previous decades into his revolutionary pitch. There's a new book out by Jason Burke, the Revolutionists that describes the genesis of what would become the Iranian Red Green Alliance. In his epic retelling of how the Marxist militants of the seventies evolved from Cuba style communists into socialist pan Arabists and eventually Islamists. So Khomeini and his deputies integrated the Marxian left's grievances and language into their own Islamist movement as well as their familiar binary divisions. The poor would be mobilized against the rich, the slum dwellers against the elites, the needy against the aristocrats, and all good Muslims against the Jews. And on that particular front, the State of Israel was little more than a fancy word, the entity that truly sought to establish the world Jewish government. Government was, in Khomeini's estimation, the United States, hence America's designation as the Great Satan. So if you've ever been a little confused about why are these Che Guevara T shirt wearing college Marxists yelling about Israel and the Jews? It's because the Muslim supremacists, the Islamists, have been using them now for gosh, what is that, 50 years? And it's just on fire on our college campuses. This is like the dominant philosophy on our college campuses. And I wish people would wake up to it and understand it and it wouldn't just be people like me talking about it. Because if you've studied political movements, this is a big one and a good one. I mean, it is. You talk about green shoots. No, this is like the best lawn you've ever seen in your life. It is so thick and lush and healthy.
Joe
Yeah, it's so depressing to me and how we're ever going to turn any of this around. My son was complaining last night. He's got 8th grade history, use my finger quotes. History at a public school that he's taken. He's only taken two classes at the public school because he's got a private tutor currently. Anywho, his history class he's really looking forward to because the Civil War was coming up. They're going to get to the Civil War. Civil War. There was one page about the actual Civil War and like a mention of Gettysburg and all the rest of it was about how it affected Native Americans.
Jack Armstrong
Oh my gosh, all of it. Yeah, yeah.
Joe
Oh my God.
Jack Armstrong
One more note on the Red Green Alliance. That is super interesting, but it helps you understand how like this sort of political movement works. You might think the Muslim supremacists despise the gender bending madness crowd. And they absolutely do. But they both have the same goal. One is from the French and the Frankfurt School of philosophy in the 20th century. We're gonna bring down civilization in the name of Marxism. Well, the Muslim supremacists want to bring down the west in the name of Islam. And so bringing down the west is no Easy task. So you take your allies where you can find them.
Joe
Sure.
Jack Armstrong
And they're absolutely great natural allies. Great. You know, obviously insidious, but great. Right. And it. It frustrates me that the house has to be on fire before people think somebody talking like I'm talking isn't, like, paranoid or crazy. I'm not paranoid or crazy, by the way. It's obvious if you know who the players are in their strategies. It's obvious to watch it unfold on the field. But anyway, that's probably enough of that. I promised you Century's nightmare. That's right.
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Thank you.
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That's a good point. Thank you. Wellsimmer. Sean Farage is Katie Green on maternity leaves. Favorite Trump imitator. And we're a day late and, as usual, a dollar short. But he had this greeting as Trump for folks yesterday.
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This is your favorite Jedi Master, otherwise known as Obi Don Kenobi. And I just wanted to wish you a very happy Star wars day. Happy May the Fourth be with you. Right. They say to me, sir, help us, Obi Dan Kenobi. You're our only hope, sir. We need you, sir. You know, they say that I'm one of the strongest Force users. I get along very well with the Force. Very well. You look at Jabba the Hutt. I call him Chris Christie. Jabba, I get along well with Yoda. Yoda said to me, sir, America, great again you will make, sir, but we're doing a tremendous job. Obi Dan Kenobi, your only hustle. God bless you. God bless the galaxy. May the Fourth be with you, and thank you for your attention to this matter.
Jack Armstrong
That's funny.
Joe
I feel like whoever came up with the may the Fourth be with you is making fun of people with lisps and are. They're ableists and I don't like it at all.
Jack Armstrong
Wow. There you go.
Joe
Dolly Parton. Dolly Parton has kidney stones. Will have full team coverage in hour
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three,
Joe
which is very, very painful. We were excited when we heard they were making a movie about the Orwell book. Animal Farm. The movie is out. Haven't seen it. My son was complaining about the trailer the other day. He feels like they've. They've changed the story. Is that what this. What's going on?
Jack Armstrong
I was enraged when I saw it. Enraged as an Orwell freak. I thought, all right, reserve judgment. It's just a trailer. They gotta sell the movie. Who knows how. How accurate it is. Well, one of my favorite writers has seen it and says, good God.
Joe
That and a whole bunch of other stuff on the way.
Jack Armstrong
Stay here Armstrong and Getty.
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Jack Armstrong
We're free. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Four legs good, two legs bad. No animal shall wear clothes huh? What? We're show pigs and all animals are equal.
Joe
You know, if you didn't know what that was, you could think it was the new Jack Black Comedy Spectacular for the summer. But it's a movie making of the classic George Orwell book Animal Farm and it's in movie form and I've been really looking forward to seeing it. My my son read that fairly recently for school and was was thrilled when he heard there's a movie coming out. But you're saying it's we're not gonna like the movie.
Jack Armstrong
I I am an Orwell freak and proudly so. I would establish my credentials, but we don't have time. Trust me when I tell you, I am. And I saw the entire trailer when it came out and I was horrified because it seemed to be a movie not about the evils of Soviet style communism, which was what the book was. In fact, the book was so on the nose Orwell couldn't get it published in 1945 because the Soviet Union was in WWII an ally of both Britain and United States to defeat the Nazis and the Imperial Japanese, mostly the Nazis. And so publishers are like, we can't publish this right now, sorry. Because it was so obviously. In fact, one publisher says if the fable were addressed generally to dictators and dictatorships at large, then we could publish it. But the fable does follow, as I see now, so completely the progress of the Russian Soviets and their two dictators that it can apply only to Russia to the exclusion of the other dictatorships. So we're not going to publish it anyway What I thought when I saw the trailer was, oh my God, they've made this about the evils of capitalism and in favor of communism. I thought, all right, it's a trailer. They're just trying to sell them over.
Joe
They can't have gone that far.
Jack Armstrong
They did. And farther. Nicholas Claremont in the Free Press writes the new film, voiced by a cast of A listers that include Glenn Close, Seth Rogen, Steve Buscemi, Woody Harrelson, earned bad press when its trailer was released last year. But the reality is somehow even worse than it seemed back then. The film feels, to put it plainly, like a bad joke about Orwell, that a right wing X account would dream up to rage bait. Hey guys, what if those crazy woke socialists in Hollywood actually went back and rewrote Animal Farm to be about the exact opposite of what the author intended? In the film, the message is no longer about how the revolutionary dreams of doing away with capitalist hierarchy are inevitably dashed by the avaricious realities of human nature. The problem is portrayed by Andy Serkis, who directed it, is instead corporate greed under capitalism. And you know, I could read you a description of it, but it makes the case. There's a pig character who doesn't appear in the book that the movie is centered on. In the opening scene, they break out of the slaughterhouse truck. It becomes clear that the revolution is not ultimately against Farmer Jones as in the original text. Rather, it's against a bank to which Jones owes unpaid mortgage payments. And the bank is working hand in glove with a gigantic faceless conglomerate called Pilkington, which seems to own factory farms, malls and hydroelectric plants. The conglomerate's evil CEO also drives an unmistakable, unmistakably Tesla like car. This is just the first sign that the movie is not about any longstanding political ideas, but rather is an attack on the right wing figures as they currently exist. More attacks come fast and thick. The Joseph Stalin like pig Napoleon voiced by Seth Rogen. Rogan Rogen repeatedly uses Trumpian locutions, arguing against the noble Leon Trotsky like Big Snowball, with such rhetorical flourishes. As many animals have been saying, you get the idea, but I promise you it's worse than you think.
Joe
I'll have to see it because I've often been misled by reviews, but did all these actors, I mean that, that, that they're already rich and famous? Seth Rogen, whoever did they. Did they know what they were doing when they read these scripts? I mean, has anybody given anything?
Jack Armstrong
They knew it and they loved it. Are you kidding? These are the People that have away America from the Oscars year after year because they are so brutally, smugly woke.
Joe
But I haven't heard any interviews from anybody, director, whoever, about this. I would think they'd be getting a message out there talking this up. I would. I would like to hear them explain why they took one of the classics of literature and tried to change the story.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, well.
Joe
Well, yeah.
Jack Armstrong
I mean, why is obvious. Because this is their worldview and they want to change the world, not the why.
Joe
The why is not problem is the I want to hear them saying it out loud. I would think they'd be out there proudly, you know, pimping. We took a mistaken book, misleading people, and corrected it for the ages.
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Jack Armstrong
I would not do that. If I were them, I would pass it off as, this is the classic you've heard about, you probably read as a kid. Let's retell it in movie form and just slip it in. It's subterfuge. It's dishonesty. It's the mark of Marx. Anyway, so Nicholas makes a Nicholas Claremont. I mean, it's not like he picks out a couple of things. He goes through the entire structure and plot of the movie and how it is clearly the opposite of Orwell. And it ends with one of the animals. Well, the pig, main pig character saying, oh, we screwed it up. You know what? We're gonna start again and do it right this time. It ends with. With Animal Farm has never truly been done. We're gonna do Animal Farm right this time. Wow. It's pro communism.
Joe
I'll have to go.
Jack Armstrong
Wow. Armstrong and Getty.
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Episode: Foul Beaches & Kamikazi Dolphins
Date: May 5, 2026
Host: iHeartPodcasts
In this episode, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty tackle a fast-moving blend of current events, politics, and cultural commentary, all delivered with their trademark irreverence and banter. The show covers headline-grabbing stories ranging from U.S.-Iranian naval standoffs and the bizarre alleged use of “kamikaze dolphins,” to the environmental disaster fouling Southern California’s pristine beaches. In the latter half, they delve into cultural and ideological clashes in American politics, discuss alarming shifts in education, and review Hollywood's controversial new adaptation of George Orwell’s Animal Farm. Expect a heady mix of humor, outrage, and insight.
[03:11 – 11:03]
Discussion of Strait of Hormuz Tensions:
Project Freedom vs. Operation Epic Fury:
Economic Context & Blockades:
[11:24 – 23:21]
Mexican Sewage Polluting California Beaches:
Local Reactions & Lost Tourism:
Infrastructure & Politics:
[26:50 – 36:23]
Cultural & Political Analysis:
Education & Cultural Critique:
[36:23 – 37:28]
[41:43 – 47:46]
Hollywood’s Animal Farm Adaptation:
Cultural Pessimism & Hollywood Cynicism:
With a mix of cynicism, outrage, and humor, Armstrong & Getty critique both current events and cultural shifts, warning listeners about geopolitical dangers, domestic infrastructure decay, and ideological trends in politics and media. The hosts’ irreverence keeps the mood light even as topics turn heavy, but their concern about what’s “really” happening in American society is never far from the surface.