Joe Getty (2:53)

I just read a brilliant piece by Holman Jenkins in the Wall Street Journal. It was just pointing out how many of the free kisses Trump gets involved in. Like the Jimmy Kimmel thing. It's pro wrestling.

Jack Armstrong (3:05)

Oh, absolutely.

Joe Getty (3:06)

Jimmy Kimmel is a pro wrestling opponent. Just Trump understands. Okay, here's another great chapter in the. The, you know, the drama that we're unwinding here. And, and it's good. Kimmel wins and Trump wins.

Jack Armstrong (3:20)

We all move on. Here's a story I wanted to get on, and this is from the San Francisco Chronicle. And I couldn't. I'm not wearing a hat, but if I were, tip it as high as I could tip it, or however you tip a hat for them doing this story. Headline, San Francisco's first equity weed store was an epic failure. City hall insiders still may pocket millions.

Joe Getty (3:43)

Wow.

Jack Armstrong (3:43)

And the reason I wanted to do this story is it's a classic socialism story. It's a classic. The reason socialism doesn't work will never work. And idiots like the people that are supporting Mom Dummy in New York just, well, you're just too young to know this or stupid or something. The cannabis shop on storied Hate street had it all. Prime real estate, star power, political clout and social justice. Then things got ugly. The idea of it to start with is amazing. This was going to be the first permit holder. Remember, when weed became legal, it was all about, you know, who gets to have the permits to open up weed stores. And they're going to be limited on, you know, how many per street and all that sort of stuff. Just like a liquor store or anything like that. And Hate in the Haight Ashbury area, big tourist area. If you've never been to San Francisco, tons of foot traffic. This would be a big hippieville. This would be a big deal. I mean, how many people would be coming from around the world that would love buying weed on hate in San Francisco, Right.

Joe Getty (4:45)

Sad. People who imagine some sort of hippie utopia and just want to absorb a little bit of that, you know, three and a half generations later.

Jack Armstrong (4:54)

Right. The first permit holder in the city's social equity program, which reserved cannabis business licenses for people unfairly burdened by the war on drugs. So the only way you could get a license to open up one of these gold mine weed stores was if you were part of the crowd unfairly burdened by the war on drugs.

Joe Getty (5:19)

A drug dealer.

Jack Armstrong (5:21)

So they had experience.

Joe Getty (5:22)

I like the policy. Makes sense.

Jack Armstrong (5:24)

Well, it was just you, you had to be black because the idea of a poc, a person of color. Because throughout history According to this, people of color have been unfairly targeted in the war on drugs and suffered. And two, and this social equity, weird situation for people who believe this is true. That by helping some dude today that had nothing to do with what was going on 30 years ago, you've somehow fixed the world. I just, I don't even understand that concept.

Joe Getty (5:55)

So people of color. How about like dudes in dresses, Trans crowd. Do they get pot licenses too?

Jack Armstrong (6:02)

This would be an experiment, the store on hate to see if legalization could atone for decades of racist law enforcement excesses and empower small businesses, some owned by members of the city's dwindling black populace. You gotta like it already, right? This social experiment.

Joe Getty (6:20)

There's another great example of luxury beliefs coming up in a gender bending madness update next hour. Stay tuned.

Jack Armstrong (6:26)

So this dude got the license and didn't sell it. As the only weed retailer that was gonna be allowed on the main drag of Haight Asbury thanks to the strict zoning laws, he resisted temptation to sell out. He said he rejected cash offers from some really big dogs out there that wanted to buy his permit once he got it. Well, he ended up being a big dog. Is the reason he. Hang on. Hung onto it. We, we find out at the end of this. I hope every other person of color can look at this and see that it can really happen. Yeah. If you grew up with the mayor of San Francisco. So he literally was friends with Mayor Breed since he was a kid their whole lives.

Joe Getty (7:09)

Funny coincidence.

Jack Armstrong (7:10)

Yeah. His contacts in the, in the mayor's office. And so they're trying to figure out how are they going to dole out these permits in a fair way. And they came up with all kinds of different ways that how you could do it. And a lottery. No, somebody could rig a lottery. No, we could do it this way. No, somebody could rig that. I know what we'll do. We'll just make it. Whoever fills out the form the fastest, they get the license. And unbelievably, believe it or not, they opened up the applications online in the city of San Francisco for the form, showed up at whatever it was 10am on April 1 or whatever it was. And immediately, you know, everybody is waiting around to click on the computer and get the forms and download them and fill them out and get them back in as fast as they can. And just the craziest coincidence of all times. This guy who grew up with the mayor and has known her his entire life and his friends got their application in first.

Joe Getty (8:06)

Wow, those high school typing classes really.

Jack Armstrong (8:08)

Paid off and they, they got the license and they opened the store and then the. And I'm not going to go through all because it's a very, very long article, but the ending is they made millions while the place went bankrupt and it ended up closing. But they got millions and millions of dollars through all kinds of different government things that went on.

Joe Getty (8:29)

And the cronyism and the connected get rich that is socialism. Every single, single, every single time.

Jack Armstrong (8:39)

Amid the good vibes, there was little to indicate what was to come. That the store would go belly up in little more than four years, that the great expectations of the equity program and legal cannabis would crumble along with it. And that despite the failure, Richard, that's the guy's name, who grew up with Meer Breed and his partners would still be poised to pocket millions with taxpayers footing the bill. Good for the Chronicle for doing that story. But that is what happens every single time in socialism. The people that claim that it's all about fairness and equity and the downtrodden, it's always their buddies or somebody who bribes them that gets the cool deal and gets rich and it doesn't help anybody.

Joe Getty (9:23)

Right. The whole argument of the reality of equity is it is a quasi fake. It's a fake moral argument for why some people should get special treatment from the government. And that always turns out to be the people well connected with those in power for whatever reason, for whatever kinship, whether it's skin color or political philosophy or they're just cronies. But yeah, equity is a fake argument for special favors from the government.

Jack Armstrong (9:54)

They interviewed a whole bunch of people because there were some big time people that were trying to get that particular license to open up a weed store. And so they were ready to log on. And they had, you know, all kinds of smart people there to jump into, filling out the forms and get them in as fast as possible like that. And they didn't even come close to getting in as fast as this other guy did. And they're all like telling the San Francisco Chronic. They're all telling them like, please give me a break. I mean, don't even pretend this was on the up and up. Well, right.

Joe Getty (10:24)

No, we can't have a lottery because you could rig a lottery. Let's have a speed typing contest that our friends and family happened to win.

Jack Armstrong (10:32)

Yeah, good lord, isn't that something?

Joe Getty (10:35)

They don't even try to hide it anymore. They don't.

Jack Armstrong (10:37)

And they're the people that preach equity all the time and how the systemic this and that, it's Just. It's amazing.

Joe Getty (10:44)

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Jack Armstrong (11:53)

Why does the term crony capitalism exist but not the term crony socialism? Maybe because you don't need it because all socialism is crony. It's the whole thing.

Joe Getty (12:02)

Yeah, but you're right, that is, that is useful though, because that's exactly what that was to be tattooed with that.

Jack Armstrong (12:09)

That was crony socialism.

Joe Getty (12:11)

Yeah. It is redundant. You're right. But obviously we're in a situation right now for reasons we've discussed many times, where our young people are absolutely primed to fall for the giant scam that is socialism.

Jack Armstrong (12:23)

Oh yeah.

Joe Getty (12:24)

So we got to talk them out of it.

Jack Armstrong (12:25)

Oh, and wait till you see what happens in New York when mom dummy wins. And I was listening to some people who follow this closely. He is going to win. Even with Eric Adams getting out, he's going to win. When they have government grocery stores. Check and see who got the license to open up the grocery store and see what their connection is to the powerful. Probably be just like this weed story we told you from San Francisco.

Joe Getty (12:46)

Oh yeah, blah blah blah, Stacey Abrams, $12 billion. Blah blah blah. Please.

Jack Armstrong (12:54)

We got more Pete Hegseth that you haven't heard from. His big speech to the fat generals yesterday that we want to play for you. It's pretty interesting. A conversation starter. I definitely want to talk about the Lyft driver I had from Syria, Libya, Libya a couple of days ago is really interesting about the whole immigrant thing. Anyway, lots on the way. Stay here.

Joe Getty (13:14)

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Joe Getty (14:17)

Post yesterday on Truth Social, President Trump announced that he will impose a tariff on any country that does not make its furniture in the US which explains why Ikea is now selling meatballs for.

Jack Armstrong (14:28)

99 bucks a piece. That's funny. Kind of got lost in the whole there's been so much going on. The tariffs on furniture and movies, 100% tariff on foreign made movies.

Joe Getty (14:42)

That's unimplementable. A couple of not like hardcore newsy notes. Can't wait to hear the Pete Hexit stuff. Next segment which is what we're going to do. Hearing from a bunch of active duty folks from, you know, privates and corporals to to we read an email from a colonel who absolutely love it. Actual soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen, coast guard. Haven't forgotten about you guys. And gals, they love this stuff. So number one, once in a while I come across emails that say essentially guys, I wrote you this or I asked you this and I know you have different priorities or your corporate fathers or I think you stop, stop, stop. I didn't see it. Okay, we get hundreds of emails. Don't be butthurt that I missed yours. I just missed it. Follow up if it's important. Secondly, I'm looking Speaking of email, we I am on a bunch of different news newsletters from our favorite news coverage organizations from the National Review to the Free Press to the Washington Free Beacon to the even, you know, the, the Bigfoot Media, New York Times, Washington Post, et cetera. And every damn one of them, their big newsletter. Their headline was welcome to Another Shutdown from the excellent Jim Garrity at the the Morning Jolt at the National Review. I'm trying to find the rest of them, but. But you get the idea. Every single one of them was government shut down. What do what to expect with the government shut down. The stakes for the gop. Every single.

Jack Armstrong (16:27)

What's interesting because you write this stuff with the idea that your readers, viewers, you know, get up in the morning and, you know, want to know what's going on. I don't think people in real life give a crap about this.

Joe Getty (16:42)

Right. Right. Here's even the Daily Wire. Ben Shapiro is a genius. His. His outfit, Government Shutdown. Follow Live updates what? And here's my philosophical takeaway from this.

Jack Armstrong (16:57)

Live updates. Oh, my God.

Joe Getty (16:59)

The media thinks the government is the United States of America. I think they the media reports on the government. The government has become so omnipresent in our lives. The news is now about the government. I have to realize it's always going to be about it somewhat.

Jack Armstrong (17:18)

But I've thought this for years. They regularly think that people are paying attention to stuff, but that they aren't. But this is the biggest disconnect between the performative politicians in the media and the people of all. It's the shutdown thing. They apparently think that out in the country people are discussing this and are worried. I've lived through several of these. I've never had a single human being ever bring it up, ever.

Joe Getty (17:46)

Yeah, definitely worth a read of Mark Leibovich's again, that name is Leibovich. His book, this town, about Washington D.C. and the government media complex and how they're all part of one big industry. And the unholy, unhealthy part of it is people, they grow up with it, they hear it, they see it. And a lot of people start to think the government is the country and they don't understand that we should bump up against the government once every couple of weeks. Maybe not like four times a day every day. That's not what we're supposed to be.

Jack Armstrong (18:23)

It's interesting you mentioned all those conservative publications that wrote about the shutdown, because that ruins what I'm about to say because it doesn't fit with what I'm about to say. But I've been thinking that most of the mainstream media coverage is based on if you're the sort of person that when you hear the government word government, you think, oh cool, an entity that helps me and gives me stuff. As opposed to the way when I hear the word government, I think something that gets in my way and takes things. The word government to me means makes it harder for me to do something I want to do and take stuff away from me.

Joe Getty (18:57)

Get out of the way, Boomer. Even though you're an actual Gen X guy, because it used to be we had one small government, small spending party and then one big spending party. We now have two big spending parties.

Jack Armstrong (19:11)

Pete Hagseth, Secretary of War, gave a heck of a speech yesterday. Some of the stuff you haven't heard, it's really good.

Joe Getty (19:18)

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Jack Armstrong (20:21)

So lots of things we want to get to. We're going to play some Pete Hegseth from his big speech he gave to the generals yesterday, which has gotten a heck of a lot of attention and gotten a bunch of emails and texts about that. Want to talk about my immigrant Lyft driver that I had and why this can't be the focus of our whole immigration discussion to a greater extent. And a bunch of other stuff. Hope you can stick around for.

Joe Getty (20:42)

Yeah. Including a exciting celebrity gender bending madness update.

Jack Armstrong (20:47)

Celebrity version.

Joe Getty (20:48)

Yes. Harry Potter fans. Hermione Granger gets a right cross to the chops from J.K. rowling. So stay tuned for that.

Jack Armstrong (21:00)

Okay. Fictional character gets punched by the author of the book. Cam having trouble.

Joe Getty (21:06)

It's a metaphor. You know what a metaphor is? Okay, so it's not literally true. Right. Anyway, so we're, we're gonna do Pete here. Yeah, some more Pete stuff Yeah, I just.

Jack Armstrong (21:16)

I thought these were different. I was. I was misled by my own something or other.

Joe Getty (21:21)

Ah, I hate when that happens. I've been scanning our email reaction and it is among actual fighting people, universally positive. Just came across another one. A career army, army and Army Reserve. When I first came back from my basic training, blah, blah, blah. Reported to my unit all fit and ready to be all I can be. But we had a captain who was the one in charge calling the shots for our training. I can only see even back then they found ways around the fitness requirements. Just. He's making the point. That's very lax, very slack. What I'm trying to say is this fitness thing is nothing new, but they need to get it done. I'm summarizing.

Jack Armstrong (22:11)

Okay, let's hear a little Pete from yesterday.

Pete Hegseth (22:13)

This means at the War Department, first and foremost, we must restore a ruthless, dispassionate and common sense application of standards. I don't want my son serving alongside troops who are out of shape or in combat unit with females who can't meet the same combat arms physical standards as men, or troops who are not fully proficient on their assigned weapons, platform or task, or under a leader who was the first but not the best. Standards must be uniform, gender neutral and high. If not, they're not standards, they're just suggestions. Suggestions that get our sons and daughters killed.

Jack Armstrong (23:03)

How did we get so off track that we ever allowed. I know they do this for cops and firefighters, but how did we ever get so off track that we ever allowed different standards based on your gender? That's insane.

Joe Getty (23:17)

Yeah, I know.

Jack Armstrong (23:18)

It makes no sense.

Joe Getty (23:20)

Are you doing the same job? Yes, same standards. Next topic, please.

Jack Armstrong (23:26)

Does that come out of the whole Clinton era, 90s, whatever vibe? It's just, it's nuts.

Joe Getty (23:34)

And we always look at like the side of the coin that is the positive, the strength, the fitness, the capability. Let's look at the other side of the coin. If you have somebody who's too small and weak to do the job to the standards that it's always, you know, been held to, what the hell do I care if it's a man or woman, right? That's the other side of the coin. If, if there's some scrawny person or in shape person, no fault of their own because of their lack of muscle mass and size, they cannot drag me out of a burning building. What do I care if it's a weedy guy or a really fit woman? I'm dead either way. So at both ends of the scale, it makes no sense.

Jack Armstrong (24:16)

Right? This is. We, we played this yesterday, but everybody should hear it. In case you didn't, because this was the home run, the home run ball from Pete Exif.

Pete Hegseth (24:28)

This administration has done a great deal from day one to remove the social justice, politically correct and toxic ideological garbage that had infected our department. Department to rip out the politics. No more identity months, DEI offices, dudes in dresses. No more climate change worship. No more division distraction or gender delusions. No more debris. As I've said before and will say again, we are done with that.

Jack Armstrong (25:03)

We are done with that.

Joe Getty (25:04)

S right.

Jack Armstrong (25:06)

Identity months for the Pentagon. DEI offices for the Pentagon.

Joe Getty (25:14)

Keeping in mind, friends, DEI is near, is neo Marxism. Not everybody involved in the effort knows that, but at its core, it's 100% Marxism. In our Pentagon.

Pete Hegseth (25:29)

We are done with that.

Jack Armstrong (25:31)

But, man, brother, I did see it portrayed by every single outlet I took in yesterday, broadcast outlet other than Fox, as a horror. What Pete said yesterday, either it was completely unnecessary or it was, you know, beyond unnecessary into just awful. That we aren't going to have.

Joe Getty (25:54)

You.

Jack Armstrong (25:54)

Know, a military that looks like America and women will be denied this and black people will be denied that. I don't know how you take that out of that speech that. I don't know where you, how you get there from there, but one aspect.

Joe Getty (26:07)

Of why that's true is that it's been, you know, well observed that there's like a subset of American society that comprises military families, including both of ours. And then there's this part of America that the military is just like an abstraction to them. They've heard about it, they've seen it on tv. They hear about the equity programs and say, yeah, that's good because equity is good. But they really don't have any experience of the military or military life. And they are heavily, I should say the media is heavily populated with those people.

Jack Armstrong (26:42)

Well, there will be fewer women in combat roles.

Joe Getty (26:45)

Right.

Jack Armstrong (26:46)

If they're going to hold it. And the answer to that has got to be so what? Who cares if you're. If your answer to that is not who cares? I do not understand the way you look at the world.

Joe Getty (26:56)

Yeah, you know, this reminds me. I think it's just a historical thing. I'm always, not always frequently talking about the, the spectrum between necessity and nicety, where if, if a guy is coming at you with a knife, good manners don't really factor into the way you're going to react. Okay, you have no time for nicety because you're 100% in a moment of necessity. Well, post Cold War, Moving through the 90s into the 2000s, there was a pretty widespread attitude spoken and unspoken in America that we don't need a big military that kills people and breaks stuff. What do we. You know, there are several famous Bon Mo's from campaign trails, Earth to Matt Fong, the, the. You know I remember Dianne Feinstein running for the Senate made fun of a guy who said we still need a strong because we have the peace dividend now. And Barack Obama mocking Mitt Romney for saying that Russia was still a geopolitical threat. We were at a time where the need for the military was purely theoretical. And since that's true, it's just a big institution with a lot of jobs. So let's make sure everybody gets their fair quota and there's plenty of equity in the rest of it because war fighting and killing people, that's what the military used to be.

Jack Armstrong (28:21)

Can you imagine how they choose the who gets to be in combat units in China? It would be very.

Joe Getty (28:30)

Fairness. Is that what they use? Lens of fairness?

Jack Armstrong (28:33)

It would be very clear cut on a combination of physical and mental abilities. The end they no concern whatsoever about first of all, you probably can't even be in the military unless you're the right race. They are incredibly racist in China.

Joe Getty (28:49)

Oh yeah.

Jack Armstrong (28:49)

But yeah.

Joe Getty (28:51)

Which you know, lends cohesion. I'm not in favor of it but you know it does. Yeah.

Jack Armstrong (28:57)

That's a while the wild that this was met with any was controversial on any level. We don't want people to be fat and we don't want people who can't do the, you know, the same number of push ups or whatever as you need to do.

Pete Hegseth (29:11)

We are done with that.

Joe Getty (29:14)

Right. It's like we're designing a gun and all of our attention is to how pretty it is.

Jack Armstrong (29:19)

Identity months.

Joe Getty (29:21)

Yeah.

Jack Armstrong (29:24)

Will those come back immediately? Like if Gavin Newsom is president.

Joe Getty (29:29)

For better or worse, number one, don't you threaten me. For better or worse, the Pentagon, when it doesn't want to go along with stuff, drags its feet. I'm hoping Pete and Donald J. Can really, really inject that fighting force spirit, that warrior spirit into the Pentagon so that it'll have some resistance, it'll have some natural immunity for a while toward any effort to drag it back into the whole, you know, diversity, equity and inclusion jobs program. Fairness, Pentagon.

Jack Armstrong (30:08)

We got a funny text that I want to read. WTF Jack? I've been listening since the show started and your Lyft driver has been from Lebanon Then Syria and now Libya.

Joe Getty (30:22)

So I have a. I was thinking the same thing. The correct man from Morocco. What did he say?

Jack Armstrong (30:28)

The correct answer is Libya. And I do want to talk about my Lyft driver from Libya, not those other two places. Among other things. Coming up. Stay here.

Joe Getty (30:37)

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Jack Armstrong (31:57)

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Jack Armstrong (32:14)

That was pretty funny.

Joe Getty (32:17)

Colin Jost doing a broadcast from Beth Page Black during the Ryder Cup. That didn't sound like him.

Jack Armstrong (32:23)

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Joe Getty (32:32)

I had to take a tick off my wife the other day.

Jack Armstrong (32:34)

Really?

Joe Getty (32:35)

Yeah. You want to live in the woods? You're gonna get ticks now and again. Especially if you have a big furry dog.

Jack Armstrong (32:40)

Where on her was the tick? Or is that private?

Joe Getty (32:42)

That's a little personal.

Jack Armstrong (32:43)

Okay.

Joe Getty (32:43)

No, they generally go where like an article of clothing stops. So, like the shoulder, not the. What do you call it? Your collarbone.

Jack Armstrong (32:53)

Trump just signed some sort of a I Childhood cancer thing. I don't know what it is, but it reminded me there's a story out about a canary in the coal mine about how many jobs AI will destroy or not around radiologists that I want to get to next hour. That's pretty interesting, but since I've Teased this like five times, I should probably mention it. So I needed to get a ride from Lift the other day because I had a truck that was getting repaired. So I need to get a ride from my house there. And I get picked up by this guy and we're talking a little bit, and he's got a very thick accent. And I asked him where he's from. Older dude, quite a bit older, like 70s. And he said that he was from Libya. And he started talking about his. Or I asked him about his car. That's how originally he started. So what year's your Camry? And he said, oh, it's a 24, and blah, blah, blah. I said, my brother drives in 99. He said, Good for him. He said, because I had. I had a 2003 that I put 275, 000 miles on it and there's no reason to get rid of one unless you have to. And then he started talking about, this is a sidebar. I didn't know this, but with Lyft and Uber, they prioritize rides based on how new your car is, which is an incentive for, if you're a Lyft driver, your car is getting older to replace it with a newer one because you get way more rides sent your way if you have a newer vehicle. He said it wasn't anything wrong with his older Camry, but he gets way more rides with a 24 than he did with a, with a 2002 or whatever.

Joe Getty (34:30)

It was interesting.

Jack Armstrong (34:32)

I did not know that.

Joe Getty (34:33)

You know, it's funny, having taken a lot of rides in London, that virtually every car I was in was brand spanking new. That explains it, huh?

Jack Armstrong (34:40)

But he said, he said, I didn't buy this. My daughter bought it for me. She's a. I forget something. In the medical field, he had three daughters that he had brought to this country that all went to universities and got degrees and doing really, really well. And he is just. He was just so optimistic about the United States. And I started to ask him about. Well, I asked him where he's from. Then he said. And I said, so were you there during Muammar Gaddafi? And he said, oh, yeah, my entire life was. Muammar Gaddafi ruined the country. And he said, it's worse now. The new guy is worse than Muammar Gaddafi was. Which is interesting to me. I. I was not aware of that story. But, you know, that's the guy, the Muslim Brotherhood guy that took over, you know, that whole thing.

Joe Getty (35:23)

That's serious.

Jack Armstrong (35:24)

Oh, you're right. So who took over and who took over in Libya? Doesn't matter.

Joe Getty (35:28)

I don't. Hellhole.

Jack Armstrong (35:30)

Yeah.

Joe Getty (35:31)

To every question about Libya, asshole. Nice job, Hillary Obama. Way to take out the leader with no plan of succession. Oh, boy.

Jack Armstrong (35:37)

But the. The main thread of this whole thing is what is the deal with so many immigrants that come from really awful countries, so happy to be here, get their kids here, do well, versus the crowd that marches in the street with the flag from their former country and is angry about the way we're treating.

Joe Getty (36:00)

Them, and lecture us about how you can't get ahead.

Jack Armstrong (36:02)

And is there any way. Cause I gotta believe there are tens of millions, maybe hundreds of millions of people around this world that are like this guy who would love to get here and would be happier and crap to raise their family here. Is there any way we can make sure those people get in here and the people that want to get here and complain about it stay the f out?

Joe Getty (36:25)

You know, we get used to stuff that is so abhorrent that you'd think you couldn't possibly get used to it. Picture me as an immigrant to pick a country. I don't know, Germany. I often. I, as a young person, I thought I might live there. So I usually use it as an example. And I was somewhat annoyed with German immigration policy and I organized a bunch of American expats to protest that policy. And we marched through the streets waving American flags and thought that would do.

Jack Armstrong (36:59)

Us any good, maybe throwing rocks at cops and setting things on fire.

Joe Getty (37:02)

Exactly. That would be effing crazy and stupid and unproductive. And the people of Germany should probably. Oh, I almost said something unfortunate. They should probably move swiftly to export my ass back to where I came from. And how could any country not react that way? Because we've gotten used to that. It's absurd.

Jack Armstrong (37:25)

Well, my point is, since there's. I think there are plenty of the other kind of immigrant that would love to be here and would work really hard and do well. Let's just prioritize them. You don't like hearing, swap them out.

Joe Getty (37:36)

I endorse your plan.

Jack Armstrong (37:37)

I'll pay for your damn ticket. Get out. Don't ever come back. I don't care what you don't like about the country. It doesn't get any better than this. If you can't make it here, you can't make it anywhere. Get the f out and bring in the hundreds of millions of people that would love to come here and raise their kids and be really successful like this guy.

Joe Getty (37:54)

Run America like a hot Nightclub, two people leave, two more come in. You two, come on in. Come on in. You're hard workers. You love this country. Glad to have you. Welcome, friends.

Jack Armstrong (38:03)

This guy had not a tiniest thing negative to say about his situation in the United States of America. He's thrilled to be here and raise his kids here. Talking about the opportunities that they would have never had back in his home country of Syria, Liberia or Lebanon, whichever one it was.

Joe Getty (38:19)

And maybe Latvia. Nobody's sure.

Jack Armstrong (38:21)

He's certainly not gonna be waving his country's flag and attacking cops and complaining about it. God, why would we put up with that? Why do we put up with that? You don't like it, go the freak back, right? God, that makes me mad.

Joe Getty (38:38)

We're off track. We're so off track, and we're trying to get closer to on track, but it's gonna take a minute.

Jack Armstrong (38:44)

The fact that the media sympathizes with the people from other countries complaining about being here. Then leave. There are plenty of people that want to be here that would love it.

Joe Getty (38:53)

Excuse Frank talk, but we live in a world where if you're 6 foot 4, you have a beard, a penis, and text testicles, and you call yourself a woman, about a third of the electorate, well, at least 20% of it will say, that's a woman right there. That's a woman. Yes. And if you say that's not a woman, you're. You're a bigot, terrible person and a transphobe. Gender bending madness update. Coming up next hour, special celebrity edition. Don't miss it. Armstrong and Gannon, ready. This is an I Heart podcast.