He Needs To Be Dragged Out By His Beard & Abused By Crowds

Summary

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Episode: He Needs To Be Dragged Out By His Beard & Abused By Crowds
Date: March 10, 2026
Hosts: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty

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Episode Overview

This episode of The Armstrong & Getty Show dives into the ongoing U.S. military operations against Iran, the Iranian leadership transition after the death of Supreme Leader Khamenei, media coverage of gas prices, and a lively critique of “soft on crime” policy discussions in Minnesota. The hosts also take detours into sports, technological tips, and lighter segments, all delivered with their signature mix of irreverence and informed commentary.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. U.S.-Iran Conflict: Escalation & Strategy

Timestamps: 04:00 – 08:49

• Intensity of Strikes: Jack explains that today marks the most intense day of strikes inside Iran, with the highest number of fighters, bombers, and targets. Curiously, Iran's response has tapered off (“lowest number of missiles fired yet”).

• Trump’s Approach: Clips and analysis of Donald Trump's recent statements regarding the conflict and Iran's leadership (“…everything they have is gone, including their leadership”—Trump, 06:12). There’s speculation that Trump may suddenly pivot strategy if oil prices soar, comparing this to his past abrupt foreign policy moves.

• Military Targets: The show details the destruction of Iran's naval forces (“The Navy is gone. It's all lying at the bottom of the ocean. 46 ships.”—Joe Getty, 07:16). Trump reportedly said, “He said, 'It's more fun to sink them.'” (07:28), which Armstrong and Getty critique as poor messaging.

2. Iranian Leadership Succession & Legitimacy Crisis

Timestamps: 16:53 – 24:24

• Who is 'Weird Beard Jr.' (Mujtaba Khamenei):
  Joe dives into the ascendance of Mujtaba Khamenei, dubbed “Weird Beard Jr.,” who replaces his father after his death in an airstrike. Mujtaba is described as lacking religious credentials, respect, and even the approval of his late father.
  • Quote: “This guy’s a nothing… no respect as a religious scholar. They’re desperately now trying to pitch the idea that his father was a martyr.”—Joe Getty, 17:10
  • Quote from an insider: “Mujtaba is an impotent young cleric who has achieved nothing in terms of political life… all these years he has been nothing without his father’s name.” (20:08)
• IRGC’s Influence:
  His primary power base is Iran’s Revolutionary Guard (IRGC), having built connections during his youth. Despite this, both domestic and international critics (including Trump) see Mujtaba as a “nepo baby”—an impotent figurehead placed for IRGC interests.
• Hereditary Succession Hypocrisy:
  The hosts highlight the contradiction of revolutionary Iran, which once condemned hereditary rule, now engaging in it with Mujtaba’s selection: “They’ve utterly betrayed that principle.” (21:37)

3. Media Critique: Gas Prices and Inflation

Timestamps: 08:49 – 11:22

• Media Sensationalism:
  Jack and Joe slam news outlets for hyping $100/barrel oil without adjusting for inflation. Jack (sarcastically): “I did the major journalistic work of asking ChatGPT about inflation.” (09:09)

  • $100 oil now equals $79 in 2020 dollars—a fact ignored in coverage (09:21).
  • Quote: “Folks, I think we all need to together take a moment, slap our foreheads and think about how stupid our news media is and how ill served we are by their weak efforts.” —Joe Getty, 09:42

• Gas Prices ‘Man on the Street’:
  They lampoon repetitive local news shots at gas stations (“If you’re ever interviewed at a gas station...say something really perverse”—Joe Getty, 10:40).

4. Minnesota Politics: 'Benefits of Shoplifting' Debate

Timestamps: 31:45 – 38:48

• Satirical Outrage:
  The hosts mock Minnesota State Rep. Dave Pinto's request for a study on the “benefits of shoplifting.”
  • Rep. Krista Knutson’s response, played on air:
    “There are no benefits to shoplifting for the people that are being shoplifted from… I’m shocked, actually. I don’t even know what to say.” (31:48)
• Technocratic Nonsense:
  Armstrong and Getty ridicule Pinto’s framing—calling thieves “organized retail theft” (the technocratic term) and speculating on the “benefits.”
  • Notable Joe Getty line: “There are some ideas so ridiculous only an intellectual could hold them.” (33:44)
  • Joe’s fiery conclusion: “That Dave Pinto needs to be dragged out of the chamber by his ears and…abused by crowds. Good Lord. He’s advocating for lawlessness.” (38:04)

5. Iranian Women’s Soccer Team & Asylum Seekers

Timestamps: 42:53 – 44:31

• News Segment:
  Five members of Iran’s women’s soccer team seek asylum in Australia after refusing to sing the national anthem, fearing repression.
  • Jack reflects on their bravery and the heartbreaking risks to family members back home: “Oh God, yes. That is always so tough for those countries like Iran, North Korea, Russia...if they come for me, I’ll go down guns blazing. But how about your mom, dad back home? That’s a little different situation.” (44:22)

6. Short Bits: Technology, Sports, Culture

TV Tech Tip:

• If your smart TV is laggy, unplug it for 15 minutes to clear the cache and improve performance (47:45).

World Baseball Classic:

• The Italian team has an espresso machine in their dugout; baseball stars discuss caffeine and performance (28:30 – 31:14).

Drugs, Musicians, and Performance:

• Conversation about Joe Walsh, Eric Clapton, musicians’ sobriety journeys and whether they performed better sober or not (48:50 – 49:51).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Iranian New Leader:
  “He had important connections with the Revolutionary Guard...he’s so unimpressive and impotent. As unfortunately both Jack and the New York Post feel necessary to point out, he was in the hospital for two months for lack of erection.” —Joe Getty, 20:14
• On Media Coverage:
  “We all need to together take a moment, slap our foreheads and think about how stupid our news media is…” —Joe Getty, 09:42
• On ‘Shoplifting Benefits’:
  “Who benefits from shoplifting? The criminals. Once again, the criminals benefit.” —Rep. Krista Knutson, 37:54
  “That Dave Pinto needs to be dragged out of the chamber by his ears and abused by crowds.” —Joe Getty, 38:04

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Timestamps for Key Segments

| Topic | Start Time | |----------------------------------------------|------------| | U.S.-Iran Strikes & Trump Soundbites | 04:00 | | Inflation & Gas Price Journalism | 08:49 | | Weird Beard Jr. & Iranian Succession Crisis | 16:53 | | Media Mockery of Gas Price Coverage | 10:15 | | Minnesota ‘Shoplifting Benefit’ Study | 31:45 | | Iran Women's Soccer Anthem Protest | 42:53 | | TV Performance Tech Tip | 47:45 | | Baseball & Caffeine | 28:30 | | Musicians, Drugs, and Sobriety | 48:50 |

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Tone & Style

The episode is delivered in Armstrong & Getty’s hallmark irreverent, bantering, and often sarcastic style. They pair sharp, researched commentary with pointed mockery of media, politicians, and bureaucratic language, offering both comic relief and real insight into the news of the day.

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Summary

This episode is a prime example of Armstrong & Getty’s ability to balance hard-hitting political commentary with humor and cultural asides. Listeners get a deep dive into the fraught geopolitical situation in Iran, an inside look at domestic politics and technocratic absurdities, alongside lighter fare on sports, tech tips, and the oddities of modern life. It’s a fast-moving, witty episode that rewards both close attention and casual listening, laced with memorable lines and lively debate.

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[Joe Getty]

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Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Getty.

[Jack Armstrong]

Today will be yet again our most intense day of strikes inside Iran. The most fighters, the most bombers, the most strikes. Intelligence more refined and better than ever. So that's on one hand. On the other hand, the last 24 hours have seen Iran fire the lowest number of missiles they've been capable of firing yet. So that's almost hard to believe that it's going to be the most number of strikes today. Whatever we are 10, 11, 12 days into this thing, that's Pete Hegset, the Secretary of War going to hear from Trump. That was this morning. We'll hear from Trump yesterday here in just a little bit. Joe's going to tell us about the new weird beard.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, Weird Beard Jr. Controversial character Jack, as you might guess. And controversial moment in Iran's history for reasons I will explain.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay, looking forward to that. Also forgot what was the thing I wanted to talk about getting to later that flitted out of my mind because cousin being old and whatnot, things flit out of my mind. That's a drag.

[Joe Getty]

What are you gonna do?

[Jack Armstrong]

I should write down everything. I should carry on notepad and a pen. Just constantly like for thoughts I'm gonna have in two minutes you're gonna go into the laundry room and get a pair of socks.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, boy, oh, boy.

[Jack Armstrong]

Going full Bruce Willis over here.

[Joe Getty]

That would be exhausting. Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Here's a little Trump from yesterday.

[Joe Getty]

No, I don't want to brag, but,

[Jack Armstrong]

you know, they've said this about a lot of things no other president could do.

[Joe Getty]

Doing no other president that. From the Republican things I'm doing. Nobody else was going to do it. I say they say it all the

[Jack Armstrong]

time, sir, could you do this?

[Joe Getty]

You're the only one can do. Was a long form. That was fabulous. That was at the Republican retreat where they're trying to figure out how the hell to not lose the midterms.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, play 55 for me. This is the one that's getting all the attention because it's all about the timeline, which I think he was trying to bring down the oil prices on Iran.

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You called it an excursion. You said it would be over soon. Are you thinking this week it will be over no days?

[Jack Armstrong]

I think so.

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Okay.

[Jack Armstrong]

And with respect, very soon. Look, everything they have is gone, including their leadership. In fact, they have two levels of

[Joe Getty]

leadership and even actually, as it turns out, more than that. But two levels of leadership are gone.

[Jack Armstrong]

Most people have never even heard about the leaders that they're talking about. So it's obviously been very, very powerful, very effective.

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So

[Jack Armstrong]

yesterday I was talking about. There's a lot of chatter among the, the sort of people who chatter that maybe Trump's going to pull the plug on this thing with oil prices going up and decide, you know, that's good enough. We've. We've made our point and then just stop. Like, you know, sometimes he does with things. Major tariff war with a major country, and then a couple days in, because bond market does something, you just stop and you don't really have to explain it. You just do. Then because of modern world, everybody just moves on to something else and doesn't even remember it happened.

[Joe Getty]

What else are you gonna do?

[Jack Armstrong]

So I don't. I don't. I really don't know how far he plans to prosecute this. I don't know. Here's. Here's him talking about us blowing stuff up.

[Joe Getty]

The Navy is gone. It's all lying at the bottom of the ocean. 46 ships.

[Jack Armstrong]

Can you believe it? In fact, I get a little upset with our people. I said, what quality of ship?

[Joe Getty]

Excellent, sir.

[Jack Armstrong]

Top of the line. I said, why did we just capture the ship? We're going to use it. Why did we sink them? He said, it's more fun to sink him. He said, That's. They like thinking about it. They say it's safer to sink him. I guess it's probably true.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Yeah. Well, what are you gonna board them and go hand to hand? Conflict or combat? Yeah. Not sure I would have gone with that more fun line, but it was interesting.

[Jack Armstrong]

So there you go. So tell me about weird beard. This. I'm very interested in who might be in charge, although to what extent he's going to be able to do anything. Where's he hiding right now?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I want to spend just another minute on the question of when this might end. In the press conference yesterday, which was really interesting. I happen to watch the whole thing. It was long. It's obvious that they are ready for a number of different outcomes, but each one of them includes Iran cannot project its power in the region. It cannot hold up shipping in the Straits of Hormuz because that's super important for global oil movement. And the rest of it, you're probably more or less familiar with that. And that they can't attack our friends and allies and our bases in the region, that is like the lowest level of achievement that he will settle for. And that's still a fair ways off.

[Jack Armstrong]

By the way, I was complaining about this yesterday as all the news organizations for 48 hours were talking about a

[Joe Getty]

hundred dollar barrel oil.

[Jack Armstrong]

Hundred dollar barrel oil. A hundred dollar.

[Joe Getty]

The magic number. $100 barrel oil.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's a round number, it's a roundup there with nobody taking the time to say that, well, inflation over the last several years. A hundred dollars ain't the same as what a hundred dollars was just a couple years ago. So I did the major journalistic work of asking Chatgpt about inflation. So $100.

[Joe Getty]

Michael, Jack's gonna need a frame for his Pulitzer. Can you look into that? I will check it out.

[Jack Armstrong]

So $100 oil is the same as $79 oil in 20. 20.

[Joe Getty]

$79 oil. $79 oil. Yelled no one ever.

[Jack Armstrong]

Which wouldn't have got hardly any attention. But that's what oil actually is based on. $2020, which is just five years and a couple of months ago.

[Joe Getty]

Folks, I think we all need to together take a moment, slap our foreheads and think about how stupid our news media is and how ill served we are by their weak efforts. Good lord. Again, enjoy your Pulitzer.

[Jack Armstrong]

Congratulations. Well, part of it is nobody wants to tamp down an exciting story that you don't get readers, eyeballs and listeners by tamping down. Here's why this story actually isn't near as Exciting as you think it is, you just, you know, it's not the best way to get attention.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I guess we're not in the endless.

[Jack Armstrong]

The dumbest journalism on them in the world. As I was talking about. And they're doing it again last night. They'll probably do it again tonight on the evening news. They're at a gas station talking to a soccer mom or a guy, you know, driving to a construction site. Yeah, it cost me almost 120 to fill my tank. I don't know how long I can keep this up. That man is troubled. Yes, we know.

[Joe Getty]

We all people dislike high gas prices.

[Jack Armstrong]

The damned.

[Joe Getty]

All right, let's all right. This is our second Coming together moment for all of us. In one segment, you've got to vow if you're ever interviewed at a gas station like that by some local reporter, you've got to say something really perverse or just say, you know, I enjoy paying more for gas. I think everyone should pay more for gas. Or look at. Wait, no, I need footage of somebody, audio somebody saying that they get the. Oh, no, I like it.

[Jack Armstrong]

See, we got to put the camera on the thing scrolling from to a higher number. And then we need you to say, I don't know how I'm going to afford this. And then I'll say, as you can see, Jim, people are troubled by the high prices of gas.

[Joe Getty]

No, I'm going to say I blame the French. How long are we going to put up with the French?

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, some of it I put in my car and some of it I drink in the morning.

[Joe Getty]

Right, right. Spend a couple minutes thinking about it and having it in your holster, ready to go, Jack, I say just humbly, we actually break semi on time. And I'll tell you about Weird Beard junior and how this is a major moment in Iranian history. And not just in the obvious ways, but a word from our friends at Rough Greens first. Man, we love our dogs, don't we? We really do. And we want to help them live a longer, healthier, happier life. And ruff greens can be a great way to enhance your dog's diet and his health or her health. Them they thems health.

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[Joe Getty]

We spoke about Operation Epic Fury, how it's going and his thoughts on Mustaba

[Jack Armstrong]

Khamenei, Iran's next supreme Leader.

[Joe Getty]

He told me he's not happy with that selection, adding, I don't believe he can live in peace.

[Jack Armstrong]

Nice job of learning to pronounce that guy's name there.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, Trey Yinx. The fabulous Trey Youngstown, Fox News so the new guy, Beard Jr. Weird beard Jr. Who is he? What does this all mean super interesting. First of all, this guy's a nothing. And we'll get into that more. He's got, like, no respect as a religious scholar. He may or may not have showed up at the end of the Iraq war, Iran, Iraq war, to burnish his credentials for, you know, his future and that sort of thing. But they're desperately now trying to pitch the idea that his father was a martyr. The, the, the big announcement offered condolences on the martyrdom of your beloved father, who is a model of jihad and martyrdom. And that in their weird, mystical, clerical, religious, fascist society, gives the guy more legitimacy because he's the son of a Martyr, didn't he? 53, something like that?

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, he couldn't have fought in the Iran walk rock war unless he was a child

[Joe Getty]

in the 80s.

[Jack Armstrong]

He'd have been pretty young. I mean, because we were young, and he's significantly younger than us.

[Joe Getty]

Please don't make me do mathematics. I'm told that he, he, he went to the front lines at the end of the conflict. Might have been 18. Somebody do the math. Anyway, do the math. Interestingly, the weird Beard junior's mother, wife and son were also killed during and airstrikes. So anyway, in the weird way that this sort of society operates, this Iran expert at the university in Scotland says much dabo will be helped by the fact that his father was killed by Netanyahu and Trump. You can already see the mythology being built because martyrdom is a central concept in Shiite Islam, harking back to the death of the Imam Hussein, Prophet Muhammad's grandson killed in the seventh century, blah, blah, blah, the split with the Sunnis. Anyway, so they're trying to build this guy up. But interestingly, came across this in the New York Post. Nobody wanted impotent nepo baby Machtaba Khamenei to be Iran's next supreme leader, not President Trump, and not even Khamenei's own father, who held the job until he was blown up by airstrikes earlier this month. But the IRGC had other ideas, and I think I underplayed when he, he forged connections with the irgc, starting with his youthful service, quote, unquote, at the end of the war, he was their guy in the White House, as it were.

[Jack Armstrong]

He'd have been 15 when the war ended.

[Joe Getty]

What can I tell you?

[Jack Armstrong]

All right, anyway,

[Joe Getty]

so he had important connections with the Revolutionary Guard, and he was their contact, their lobbyist, their connection to the old man who ruled Iran as the supreme leader. So that's his power center. But he's so unimpressive and impotent. As unfortunately both Jack and the New York Post feel necessary to point out,

[Jack Armstrong]

he was in the hospital for two months for lack of erection.

[Joe Getty]

That in Khamene's wills. Oh, weird beard Senior. He explicitly asked that his son not be named his successor.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, wow. Oh, wow. This is a classic Lenin Stalin sort of thing. What did they say on the dead deathbed? That Lenin say, don't let Stalin take over or not. This is one of those, right?

[Joe Getty]

Exactly. So here is a quote from a guy who's close to Iranian intelligence, but we got wind of the quote anyway through means that aren't worth describing. But Mujtaba is an impotent young cleric who has achieved nothing in terms of political life, said this insider, explaining that the late Khamenei felt his son lacked the experience or capability to run Iran. All these years he has been nothing without his father's name. And they mentioned that the old man was like, well, Khomeni, the original guy was like super revered religious scholar, right?

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Kameny. More of a lightweight religiously, but a master of details in organization. He was a very capable administrator. This youngster's got nothing but the name.

[Jack Armstrong]

So he is got the problem of if he sticks his head up out above ground, he'll be killed by US or Israel and underground, he might be killed by military leaders who have no respect for him.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Although he's got the IRGC in his corner because they know he'll continue to steer enormous profits and power their way. Here's another interesting aspect of this. In the Islamic Revolution of 1979, it was made infinitely clear, like in your top three or four principles, that genetic succession of this sort. Well, there's a different term for that. What do you call it? You know, the hereditary succession is strictly forbidden. That is anti Islamic. It is no way will we ever do that again, because they didn't want the shahs and stuff like that. So they've utterly betrayed that principle. Because this seems to be the obvious guy to pick according to the irgc, which still has triggers and fingers to pull them. Another interesting factoid because I've been digging deep into the history of Iran lately, which I knew a little about, but not a lot. Do you remember the coup in 19? Was it 53, 54 kind of unfolded over that period that everybody says Obama and you know, all your academics, they always say, and then the US helped to start a coup that overthrew a popularly elected government and they draw a direct line from that to the Islamic Revolution, 1979, as if we caused it. Well, I did some digging over the last couple of days into this, and it is so much more interesting than that. The popularly elected prime minister at the time, number one, the Shah had the constitutional right to remove him if he saw fit to do that. Number two, this guy's and his, his name, I can never remember this weird by Western standards. But the, the Prime Minister at the time, he had lost virtually all of his support because he'd gone dictator. He'd betrayed all of his popular democratic principles, and he had banned the free media, he had cleansed out the judiciary, including the entire Supreme Court. And everybody from the clerics to the communists turned against him. And they came to the US and said, can you help us get rid of this guy? We stayed out of it for a long time, but then they said, look, he's totally lost his mind. We can either do it with your help or without your help. And so we said, yeah, all right, we'll help. And tried to get a more reasonable system in there. Then, of course, and this is, this is repeated over and over again in Iranian history, the Shah started out pretty reformist and pretty benign, but then started ruling with an iron hand and killing people and had secret prisons and the rest of it happens over and over. But the idea that we, we went in and they were just having an Iran style garden party full of democracy and joy, utterly false.

[Jack Armstrong]

So we have hit, according to Pete Hegseth this morning, we have hit 5,000 targets. Israel has hit 3,000 targets. 8,000 targets have been struck with bombs from the air. That's hard to imagine since the beginning of the war. Yeah, okay, that's hard to imagine. Yeah, it is. How's there anything left to hit? And today is supposed to be the biggest day yet, according to Sec. Def. Sec. War Pete.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, yeah, said a country rather of 93 million people. So yeah, plenty of targets. And as we reviewed the other day, they have hundreds and hundreds of thousands of men under arms. So it's a big military.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. Interesting to see how it turns out today. They got to get that oil flowing through the straits. Hormuz though oil prices have settled down today pretty well, but they got to get them tankers going through the straight somehow.

[Joe Getty]

Market bounced back yesterday too, so lot on the way.

[Jack Armstrong]

If you miss anything, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on Demand.

[Joe Getty]

Armstrong and Getty.

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Third inning line drive, base hit, right field. He swapped with their first base runner. They get their first hit. Judges score to third, gets him and ends the inning. Aaron jumps Judge, cuts down Ortiz, the captain for the US he does it with his arm here against team Mexico.

[Jack Armstrong]

So the World Baseball Classic is going on and I feel like I. Why am I not paying more attention to this? The big stars are playing. This isn't like a lot of these sorts of things where you know your big stars don't play. I was watching Japan Sh. Otani is just laying waste the various teams.

[Joe Getty]

Oh yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

And it's really some good stuff. And then you had Aaron Judge there, our biggest star probably of the Americans of the Yankees.

[Joe Getty]

So we beat me. Everybody's looking forward to us. Japan. The Dominican Republic is a power as well. My favorite factoid from the WBC is that Italy has an espresso machine in their dugout. I'm watching a guy using it right now. Get a nice espresso as you're watching the ball game. It's great. I tell you what, another factor is caffeine speed. Super popular among baseball players because you, you, you don't stand still. You try to keep moving but man, there's inaction. But then when the action comes, you got to be instantaneous, so you got to be super twitchy. So speed really helps. So that's one of the reason the Italians who are swinging down the espresso.

[Jack Armstrong]

So a lot of your old timey baseball players were on some sort of drug of the day, right?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, yeah. Well, yeah. It was like the speed a trucker would take to not fall asleep at the wheel. That sort of thing's been popular. It's like ultra high doses of caffeine. I did it once as a ballplayer and then decided I don't want to be that guy. But it was the best game I ever played.

[Sponsor/Advertiser]

Really?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow.

[Joe Getty]

Three hits and five scoreless innings on the mound.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow. I can't believe you didn't go back to the. Well, since it worked so well.

[Joe Getty]

I know I'm suffocatingly principled. It's disgusting.

[Jack Armstrong]

I guess we have A joke about the espresso machine. Let's do it. The Italian team in the World Baseball

[Joe Getty]

Classic has gained attention online because they

[Jack Armstrong]

have an espresso machine in their dugout, which explains why one of their players bunted a triple. That's wild. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

That. It made that much difference. A Budweiser tap. Well, I know I was a pretty good ballplayer. I mean, it's not like I was hitting.120 and couldn't pitch. I know.

[Jack Armstrong]

It was the best game of your life, though.

[Joe Getty]

Well, yeah, it was, but not by like 50%, by like, you know, 20%.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's a lot.

[Joe Getty]

That's enough.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. So shifting gears completely. This is a representative up in Minnesota mocking the fact she's coming out of. She's coming out of the room where all the legislators had been talking about their bills and laws and things they want to study and whatnot. And she comes out and she talks to the. The press about how crazy one guy's idea was. This is all around the Somali fraud that they have going on in Minnesota. This is this Republican woman. Go ahead.

[Joe Getty]

Hey.

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Minnesota State Representative Krista Knutson. So today in the labor committee, Representative Dave Pinto requested a study for the benefits of shoplifting. There are no benefits to shoplifting for the people that are being shoplifted from. I have no idea what else to say. I'm shocked, actually. I don't even know what to say.

[Joe Getty]

Who.

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I don't know what to say.

[Jack Armstrong]

Who.

[Sponsor/Advertiser]

Who benefits from shoplifting? The criminals. Once again, the criminals benefit.

[Jack Armstrong]

I like her style. She's. She's got a, like, sitcom sort of delivery as a state representative, probably from some small area in Minnesota.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't even know what to say. The benefits of shoplifting. Here's a little bit of the guy. I don't know if I need the whole thing or not. Representative Dave Pinto with his idea. It is an intriguing line of questions. Several of us are on the public safety committee, and yesterday there was a presentation of a group seeking to change how we address organized retail theft.

[Joe Getty]

And it actually had not occurred to me to ask.

[Jack Armstrong]

It probably would have been good to make sure that they would study sort of the benefit of shoplifting and of retail theft, because perhaps people are relying on that and sort of using that.

[Joe Getty]

Maybe it's assisting them in some way.

[Jack Armstrong]

I mean, these folks were describing people violating the law, but it's. I suppose it could be useful to look into that, but ultimately, it's a policy question. Right.

[Joe Getty]

We do want to make sure when

[Jack Armstrong]

we have A law in place. Boy, there's a enforcing it. There's a technocrat for you. Organized retail theft calls it. And it's must. It must be benefit them in some way.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yes. If I go down to the parking lot right now and smash open somebody's window and take the purse out of there, there's a benefit to me. I now have her purse.

[Joe Getty]

There are some ideas so ridiculous only an intellectual could hold them.

[Jack Armstrong]

What the hell?

[Joe Getty]

Boy, I want to hear that Kristen Knudsen again.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't know what to say.

[Joe Getty]

Boy. We were talking yesterday about how the Democratic Party has a favorability net rating below, like everything.

[Jack Armstrong]

Everything but Iran. They're lower than ice.

[Joe Getty]

Do you have any questions now after hearing that, any questions why that might be. No. Okay. Everybody's satisfied. That is effing ridiculous.

[Jack Armstrong]

We did that at the very.

[Joe Getty]

Holy cow.

[Jack Armstrong]

We did that at the very end of the show. So I should mention that again. Yeah. Latest NBC poll and they do the whole your, your. Your favorability and then your unfavorability. And what's your net rating like if you got more people like you than or not? It's a plus. If more people dislike you, you know, it's a negative. Obviously the Democrats overall are minus 22 because 52% have a very or somewhat negative view of Democrats versus only 30% positive. So they're minus 22. Even ICE is only minus 18.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. After all the coverage.

[Jack Armstrong]

After all the coverage nationwide, the Democrats are behind Trump, they're behind the Republicans, they're behind ICE. Only Iran at a -53 as a lower rating according to NBC's poll.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, hey, and Michael, I need 32. Another reason you got. Well, we're in favor of crime. How about this? This is James Talarico, the great white hope in Texas who's gonna take the Senate se. Turn Texas blue again. Dig this.

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Exchange something that you love that's not family or friends.

[Jack Armstrong]

I love. And just say this because it's on my mind. The trans children who showed up yesterday at the state capitol to advocate for their humanity. They shouldn't have to, but it was an inspiration to watch. There you go.

[Joe Getty]

Anybody need anything else?

[Jack Armstrong]

There's some mainstream opinion.

[Joe Getty]

What do you love outside of family and friends? Trans kids. Poor children. My God, I feel bad for them. This Joseph Mengele style experimentation on them. Yeah, I feel bad for them a

[Jack Armstrong]

completely different way than you do, sir.

[Joe Getty]

I. Caramba.

[Jack Armstrong]

I like the guy in Minnesota calling shoplifters organized retail theft and then saying

[Joe Getty]

we need to do specific thing.

[Jack Armstrong]

I Know, but I feel like it's an antiseptic. You're going out of your way to use the most antiseptic term for what's happening in our stores while everything's locked up. Well, I gotta get somebody with a key to get my deodorant. And then to talk about the benefits,

[Joe Getty]

we need to study the benefits. That is either a soft head or a dedicated Marxist. He's part of the Democratic Farm Labor Party in Minnesota. I mean, because the idea of decriminalizing crime and overloading the system and breaking it and blah, blah, blah, it's straight out of Marxism and, you know, cloud pippin, blah, blah, blah. But yeah, he's. He's a dedicated Marxist.

[Jack Armstrong]

See, if I was in any congress, I would not be saying organized retail theft. I'd be saying the scumbags who rob us blind. So I have to find someone with a key so I can get deodorant at the cvs. That's what I would be saying.

[Joe Getty]

They're locking up my toothpaste. I know. Reverend Al.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's incredible. I like.

[Announcer]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Play her again just a little bit. We don't have to hear the whole thing. But her.

[Joe Getty]

She's aghast.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, hey.

[Sponsor/Advertiser]

Minnesota State Representative Krista Knutson. So to today in the labor committee, Representative Dave Pinto requested a study for the benefits of shoplifting. There are no benefits to shoplifting for the people that are being shoplifted from. I have no idea what else to say. I'm shocked at.

[Announcer]

Actually.

[Sponsor/Advertiser]

I don't even know what to say.

[Joe Getty]

Who?

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't know what to say. Yeah, I don't believe you.

[Sponsor/Advertiser]

Who benefits from shoplifting? The criminals. Once again, criminals benefit from shop.

[Joe Getty]

That Dave Pinto needs to be dragged out of the chamber by his ears and. And. And abused by crowds. Good Lord. He's advocating for lawlessness.

[Jack Armstrong]

He seems to be drugged up by his ears and abused by crowds.

[Joe Getty]

Barbaric.

[Jack Armstrong]

Speaking of an antiseptic way to present something.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, abused by crowds. Great history podcast where they use terms like. And then they were ill used by the mob.

[Jack Armstrong]

Ill used?

[Joe Getty]

You mean had the crap beaten out of them.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, that was a good one.

[Joe Getty]

Odd times, folks. If somebody had told me about them, like, in another country at another time, I would have thought, wait a minute. There are, like, representatives arguing that, well, crime has its upsides because people get free stuff. I think you're. Come on, you're making this up.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. So we. We got a couple other stories that we need to check in on. Oh, I'll have the quick what you do if your TV is laggy helped me out. I read it in the New York Times and and pass that along to you because once you have your smart TV for a while, just like with your phone, it gets gooked up with all the memory stuff and then it doesn't work quite as well. So got that for you among other things on the way.

[Joe Getty]

Stay here Armstrong and Getty

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iflag.org the Iranian Women's national team had come to the Gold coast to play in the AFC Women's Asian Cup. Their tournament had barely begun when the team made a decision to stand in silence as their national anthem played back In Tehran, state TV's reaction was swift, this host calling the move a pinnacle of dishonor, saying they were traitors during wartime who must be dealt with more severely. Three days later, something had changed. Before their second game in Australia, the players sang the anthem and saluted, prompting fears of coercion by traveling Iranian minders.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Announcer]

Earlier Monday, news that five women had fled the team hotel and are now seeking asylum under the protection of Australian police.

[Jack Armstrong]

And we know we mentioned yesterday that Trump called the prime minister president of Australia and said, can you do something to help these girls out? But then the problem is they're worried about their family back home. Although I think that ship has sailed. I mean, they can't go back and their family's probably gonna get the brunt of their actions whether they go back or not.

[Joe Getty]

Of course that math has changed with the, the war. But yeah, what a awful, unthinkable position to be in. Terrible.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh God, yes. That's. That is always so tough for those countries like Iran, North Korea, Russia, where you might be brave. I mean, I could bravely, especially as a young person Decide you know what? F my country, I'm not saluting or standing for the national anthem, but if

[Joe Getty]

they come for me, I'll go down guns blazing.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, but how about your mom, dad back home? That's a little different situation.

[Joe Getty]

Your siblings? That sucks.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, it's a sucky country.

[Joe Getty]

A miserable fascist autocracy. Yes. I just got into this article about this AI startup.

[Jack Armstrong]

I want to finish this before I

[Joe Getty]

talk about it more.

[Jack Armstrong]

I didn't reel about it. Turns out they were lying about their revenue, so they're not as successful as they want.

[Joe Getty]

But their pitch was

[Jack Armstrong]

that they were going to be the AI that helps

[Joe Getty]

you cheat at everything.

[Jack Armstrong]

That was going to be like they're

[Joe Getty]

going to do it on purpose as

[Jack Armstrong]

opposed to all these other AIs that, you know, their alignment is going to be, you know, to try to not have kids, write their term papers or

[Joe Getty]

cheat on your taxes anyway.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. That. You can't go on there and say, hey, hey, chat GPT. What's the easiest way to cheat on

[Joe Getty]

your taxes and not get caught? This.

[Jack Armstrong]

This AI was going to be all about.

[Sponsor/Advertiser]

It's all about cheating.

[Jack Armstrong]

How to get out of, you know, how to avoid speeding tickets, how to cheat on your taxes. But like you just said, it's all there anyway. Just have to word it the right way. Yeah, that's the future, though.

[Joe Getty]

That's.

[Jack Armstrong]

We're all living in la la land. To pretend that that's not going to be the dominant AI at some point.

[Joe Getty]

Wow. Wow. I remember bringing you the. The story about the cheater stuff. The kids. I'm sorry, kids using AI to cheat in school. And how some of the big platforms market aggressively to students with thinly veiled messages that, hey, we can help you totally write a paper and all meanwhile putting out public statements and responding to pressure from schools saying, oh, we are instituting new policies and safeguards, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Then marketing more to the kids. Hey, no, don't worry about it. Just come and download us.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. It's inevitable though, right, that there'll be an AI company where it's like, if you want to go there and ask, how do I do drugs without my parents finding out or, I mean, whatever it is, they got the answer for you. They don't care about the alignment problem.

[Joe Getty]

Right. How do I cheat my way to a victory in the Omani camel pageant scandal rocking the Middle East. Details to come. Live team coverage. That's right. Camel beauty pageants. Hello.

[Jack Armstrong]

You cover the CBPS more than anybody else I know.

[Joe Getty]

They're a window into Middle Eastern society.

[Jack Armstrong]

Jack Camel beauty pageants So I came across this on the New York Times. I'd never thought about this before. If you ever get a new smartphone, like a new iPhone. Every time I get a new iPhone, I open it up and I'm like, oh yeah, that's the way my phone used to work. Everything just moves around so smoothly before it gets all messed up. With apps you download or whatever happens. But your brand new technology, it's always so nice to use. If the smart TV you bought a few years ago has gone from snappy and responsive to lagging and slow, there's a reason for that. Like smartphones, TVs run out of storage space, become bogged down with cache sizes, and require updates to continue running smoothly. We all know about the updates, so you're not imagining this. But the quickest way to do it is you turning it on and off. Doesn't help. You got to unplug it. And I didn't know you unplugged it for this long. I thought, I thought everything. You unplug it for like 30 seconds or a minute, it's fine. Unplug your TV for 15 minutes. I've never heard that before. Unplug your TV for 15 Minutes, then plug it back in. And that should get it back to running like when you new got it new.

[Joe Getty]

So wow, interesting.

[Jack Armstrong]

I did not know that the whole down updating your software. Go to watch a TV show, go to use my microwave to cook an egg and you gotta update your app or whatever. What the hell, I hate all that. Yeah, it's all just to steal your info. Right, right, right. Well, steal. You signed it, so I signed it.

[Joe Getty]

You clicked.

[Jack Armstrong]

Did I have an option to not

[Joe Getty]

sign it in the real world? No, of course not. Of course not. Also coming up as quickly as we can get to it. Camel beauty pageants and Billy Idol claim smoking crack helped him quit heroin. So there you go. If you got a heroin problem, smoke crack. Take it from Billy Idol. Rock the cradle of love, friends.

[Jack Armstrong]

I heard a tease on NPR today that intrigued me. Musicians who are out and proud saying that they thought they played better drunk or stoned and now fully believe that they did not. And it's like a message to young people or musicians or something.

[Joe Getty]

Happen to hear an interview with the great Joe Walsh the other day in which he was saying that very thing. He had to rebuild himself emotionally because he had been sucking down vodka so long he didn't know if he could play, record, perform, write if he wasn't drunk and it took him a while to figure out, yeah, not only can I but I'm better lot so I wonder if he's part of that group.

[Jack Armstrong]

Lots of your drunk drug addict guitar players, particularly Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan got sober and say that. No, I always thought that I had to be, but I play better sober. But you also kind of have to convince yourself of that to stay sober. So I'm not. I'm not sure. I think it's probably true. I mean your brain certainly functions better, but I think there's probably an optimal level.

[Joe Getty]

It's like the game of golf. Everybody knows it. If you've got just a teeny little buzz going turns off that your cerebral cortex or whatever that part of your brain is that tells you o something might go wrong, didn't you. You tell it shut up with a couple of drinks.

[Jack Armstrong]

Didn't you say the other day that two drinks you could beat completely sober you?

[Joe Getty]

Oh, like a drum.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. That's interesting.

[Joe Getty]

That is really times out of ten. Wow. Yeah, I know. But I'm trying desperately to learn to do that sober. I'm now about eight years into that experiment. It's not going well.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay, we got all that stuff Joe mentioned all the way. If you missed the segment of the podcast Armstrong again on Demand

[Joe Getty]

Armstrong and Getty.

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