He Owns An Incontinent Cat

Summary

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Armstrong & Getty On Demand

Episode: "He Owns An Incontinent Cat"
Date: January 28, 2026
Podcast by iHeartPodcasts

Episode Overview

This episode covers the political fallout and conspiracy buzz around an attack on Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, who was sprayed with a foul-smelling liquid at a public event. The hosts riff on the absurdity of the incident, examine America’s rising political incivility, and probe connections to progressive and leftist politics. The discussion veers into New York City’s policies on homelessness, sensationalist media coverage (notably regarding Sydney Sweeney), the threat of war with Iran, and a few trademark Armstrong & Getty comedic digressions.

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Key Topics & Discussion Points

1. Ilhan Omar Syringe Attack – Facts, Theories, and Mockery

• Incident Recap: Omar was attacked in Minneapolis by a man with a syringe of "foul smelling liquid," potentially urine.
• Safety & Civility: Concerns over increasing incivility and threats against public officials.
• Media & Political Response:
  • Trump and others speculated the attack was staged; hosts criticize this as reckless.
  • Hosts emphasize the normalization of violence against politicians is deeply problematic, regardless of personal dislike.

Quote:

“I find Ilhan Omar loathsome in all sorts of different ways, but squirting her with foul smelling liquids is not the way to deal with it.”
— Joe Getty (02:18)

[00:47 - 07:40]

• Speculation on what the substance was.
• Joking about how hard it would be to fill a syringe with cat urine, the mechanics of obtaining it, and references to “cat pervert.”
• Discussion about Omar’s personality, her tough response (moving toward, not away from, attacker).

Quote:

“It’s just a flat out personality difference … Some people just have that personality. She is an ‘I’m coming toward you’ person.”
— Katie Greener (09:58)

[11:12 - 12:05]

• Parodying conspiracy: “He owns an incontinent cat, they connect the dots.”

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2. The Normalization of Political Violence & Its Consequences

• Consequences:
  • Increasing numbers of public officials no longer holding open town halls.
  • Reflection on an “inflection point” where major violence could erupt.

Quote:

“It just feels like there’s gonna be an inflection point of some sort where there’s 20 dead in a place like Minneapolis … or a big-time politician gets assassinated.”
— Katie Greener (06:18)

• Media & Politician Reaction:
  • Hosts condemn both left and right for suggesting attacks are staged.
  • Satirical questioning of New York Times' pursuit of quotes from distant ex-spouses of suspects.

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3. Progressive Politics & Policy Critique – Focus on NYC’s Homelessness Policy

[12:05 - 24:01]

• Zoran Mamdani: Critiqued as “Islamist communist mayor.” His team allegedly filled with anti-Semites; references to “Orwellian” job titles.
• Far-Left Agenda: Hosts argue there’s a refusal in America to see “organized leftism” for what it is—a drive towards crisis and system overload to push socialism.

Quote:

"If you look at progressive policies, like what Zoran Mamdani is starting to do in New York through the filter of 'they don’t want to solve the problem, they want to make it worse and overload the system...'"
— Joe Getty (15:49)

• Homelessness Policy:
  • NYC policy: Police instructed not to dismantle homeless encampments.
  • Critique: “Misguided compassion” ignores residents, taxpayers, business owners.
  • Public health risks: Discussion of leptospirosis (“rat urine,” with ongoing jokes about cat urine).

Quote:

“Where’s the compassion for the taxpayer who lives here?”
— Katie Greener (20:20)

[22:26 - 24:01]

• Homeless used as “political tools” to push for government housing and socialism.

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4. Media Critique – Sydney Sweeney Coverage

[24:01 - 26:20]

• Hosts mock overblown media coverage of actress Sydney Sweeney being charged for hanging bras on the Hollywood sign.
• Lampooning TV “news” for running endless montages of Sweeney in lingerie instead of reporting genuine news.

Quote:

“This is one of the newsiest periods in my lifetime … and we’re gonna spend two minutes on Sydney Sweeney just to show her with boobs hoping people will stick around longer.”
— Katie Greener (25:02)

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5. Gary Busey Tangent – Is He for Real?

[26:26 - 27:48]

• Hosts ask whether Gary Busey is a real eccentric or putting on an act.
• Old stories resurface (motorcycle accident, public incidents), leading into a classic digression on pop culture oddities.

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6. Potential War with Iran – Strategic and Moral Questions

[27:48 - 33:40]

• News Update: Reports on Iran’s crackdown, potential US military action; casualties disputed in Western reporting.
• Iranian Bluster: Iranian leadership’s threats—host dismisses as posturing given their weak air defenses.
• Debate:
  • Is Iranian repression enough reason for US military action?
  • Whether now is an opportunity to remove a malign regime.
  • Acknowledgment that such a war could easily “go sideways.”

Quote:

“If you avoid everything that could go sideways, you will do nothing, whether as an individual or a country. I am no monger of war, but it is a hell of an opportunity and they have been an awful malign presence for a very long time.”
— Joe Getty (34:53)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Civil Unrest:

  “We become an uncivilized people.” — Joe Getty (03:23)

• Conspiracy Satire:

  “He owns an incontinent cat, they connect the dots.” — Katie Greener (11:26)

• Media Critique:

  “I’ve done a fact check. She is hot.” — Joe Getty (25:28)

• Personality Assessment:

  “Some people just have that personality. She is a ‘coming toward you’ person.” — Katie Greener (09:58)

• America’s Left:

  “The refusal to see organized leftism as what it is really interests me ... They’ve won the day culturally in a lot of ways.” — Joe Getty (14:58)

• War Risks:

  “It is a hell of an opportunity and they have been an awful malign presence for a very long time.” — Joe Getty (34:53)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 00:47–07:40: Ilhan Omar attack, civil discourse, cat urine jokes
• 09:14–11:12: Analysis of Omar’s response, personality under stress
• 12:05–13:59: Progressive politics, anti-Semitism in NYC government
• 15:49–17:00: The “system overload” theory of progressive policy
• 20:20–24:01: Homeless policy, unintended consequences
• 24:01–26:20: Mocking media obsession with Sydney Sweeney
• 27:48–33:40: Iran military posturing, war rationales, policy debate
• 34:47–34:53: Joe Getty’s summation on risk and war

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Episode Tone and Style

The episode is classic Armstrong & Getty: irreverent, sarcastic, and quick-moving, mixing news analysis, speculation, and offbeat humor. The hosts toggle between deeply serious concerns (political violence, homeless policies, geopolitical war) and their trademark comic relief, offering both trenchant social critique and breezy comic banter—punctuated by notable deadpan deliveries and running gags (this episode: cat urine, “incontinent cat,” and media cheesecake coverage).

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Transcript

[Jack Armstrong]

This is an iHeart podcast, guaranteed human.

[Joe Getty]

Broadcasting Live from the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

[Show Announcer]

Armstrong and Getty.

[Joe Getty]

And now here's Armstrong and Getty.

[Kristi Noem Critic]

And VHS Secretary Kristi Noem must resign, sign, or face impeachment.

[Katie Greener]

I don't know.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, my God.

[Kristi Noem Critic]

I need a napkin. To know nothing.

[Katie Greener]

Why did Ilan Omar need a napkin? It was to wipe whatever got sprayed on her face last night. I don't think he got her in.

[Joe Getty]

The face, did it.

[Katie Greener]

Okay.

[Joe Getty]

Look at you.

[Katie Greener]

I saw her put her hand to her face, so I didn't. But she might have just been worried about her face because some nut job ran up to her with a syringe and started squirting stuff on her. What was the foul smelling liquid?

[Joe Getty]

Has it not been analyzed? I need to know.

[Katie Greener]

So she's okay? There's no indication thus far that it was anything damaging whatsoever. Thank God it wasn't, you know, acid or gas. And then he lights a flame or just, you know, all the horrible things it could be. And the guy seems like a nut. But speaking of nuts, we played this clip yesterday. What is this? A college professor or whoever this is.

[Joe Getty]

Nurse.

[Katie Greener]

Nurse. She's one of your activist nuts who. This went viral with her idea of how to be part of the resistance and fight back against people.

[Jack Armstrong]

All the medical providers grab some syringes with needles on the end, have them full of ice, saline, or succinylcholine, you know, whatever, whatever. That will probably be a deterrent, but.

[Katie Greener]

So she put that out. That got a lot of attention. That idea of filling a syringe with something and then within 24 hours, somebody puts something in a syringe and goes after, you know, a controversial figure.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, yeah. That's not good. No, it's horrible. And. And I find Ilhan Omar loathsome in all sorts of different ways, but there's squirting her with foul smelling liquids is not the way to deal with it.

[Katie Greener]

No, she's the worst person in Congress. She may be among the worst people that we've ever had in Congress in terms of hating the country and possibly being, you know, involved in a $9 billion fraud scheme and all these different sorts of things, but still, I don't want anybody attacking anybody because then the whole. A whole thing falls apart once we start normalizing that. Now, Trump, speaking of normalizing things, immediately tells ABC News she probably faked it. She's that sort of person, so. Oh, boy.

[Joe Getty]

Not helping.

[Katie Greener]

Shot guy. The guy who been shot and then, and then almost, you know, shot again. And a lot of your most irresponsible people on the left saying that this probably staged, which I thought was abhorrent. Then Trump does the same thing when the Ilhan Omar gets attacked. Using my fingertips because it's pretty mild attack.

[Joe Getty]

But yeah, as we mentioned earlier though, there are increasing numbers of congress people who've decided we can't even do town hall meetings anymore. I can't meet with my constituents in more than very small groups because just there's always a maniac or an activist or a group of five hardcore leftist Democrats who scream through the whole thing and nothing can get done. It's just we become an uncivilized people.

[Katie Greener]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

And it's interesting. Ilhan Omar wants to tear down liberal democracies in western civilization. And so far I think she's winning the show, winning the game. But she got sprayed again with some foul smelling liquid. I think cat pee probably. That's my working theory.

[Katie Greener]

Do you have anything to base this working theory on?

[Joe Getty]

Just my Sherlock Holmes style deductions. That had to be something readily available, fairly harmless.

[Katie Greener]

How readily available is cat be. Mike, Mike's got, Michael's got several cats. How would you come up with a syringe full of cat pee if you needed to?

[Michael (Technical Director)]

I don't think I could exactly.

[Katie Greener]

What are you doing?

[Joe Getty]

Very, if you're not very clever, then.

[Katie Greener]

I mean you gotta hold the cat really still. I don't, I don't know what you're doing.

[Joe Getty]

You squeeze it. It's like milking a goat. Just like it. Anyway, here's defiant Ilhan OMAR in clip 37.

[Kristi Noem Critic]

Here is the reality that people like this ugly man don't understand. We are Minnesota strong and we will stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw at us.

[Katie Greener]

Gotta go away. That, that I, I, I called that phrase off limits I don't know how many times ago. Where Boston strong. Where California strong. We're New Orleans strong. Whatever. It's just everybody's got to quit with the claiming that your particular city, state, region is stronger than the average. It just, I'm, I'm over it.

[Joe Getty]

Well, it, it makes, we've played all over this country and nobody rocks like Detroit. Seem like a reasonable, you know, bit of praise. Come on. Everybody's more or less strong.

[Katie Greener]

All right, let me go with where I'm from. We're Davis afraid, that's what we are.

[Joe Getty]

I like the. Whenever there's some storm apocalypse predicted and it just is windy for a while, and when people post the pictures of a lawn chair blown over with the caption, we will rebuild. Hashtag whatever. Chicago Strong.

[Katie Greener]

Exactly. Now that's. That's in. That's in bounds. That's funny. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

That is really funny. Yeah. I don't. It's just so ugly.

[Katie Greener]

Something. I keep saying something really bad's gonna happen. Something really bad. Several bad things have happened. And some really, really bad things have almost happened. See Trump getting shot in the ear. I just. Doesn't it just feel like there's gonna.

[Joe Getty]

Be a.

[Katie Greener]

Inflection point of some sort where there's 20 dead in a place like Minneapolis on one side or other, or a big time politician gets assassinated or something. It just feels like it's in the air, that sort of thing. I hope not. I don't want it to happen, no matter which direction it's toward.

[Joe Getty]

Right. No, but I agree. You're right. That is the feel. The attack on Ilhan Omar. What's the headline? Authorities investigate attack on Ilhan Omar in Minneapolis. Is the top of the website. Live, ongoing coverage story of the New York Times. Man sprayed her with a foul smelling substance. Probably cat pee.

[Katie Greener]

Cat pervert.

[Joe Getty]

They're Investigating the man. 55 years old. Anthony Kazmer.

[Katie Greener]

You're really glossing over how difficult it would be to obtain a syringe full of cat urine.

[Joe Getty]

Again, not if you know what you're doing. Kazmirczyk had recently told neighbors he's going to the town hall and might get arrested. The neighbor said he didn't think Kacmer Zix meant he would attack the congresswoman.

[Katie Greener]

Yeah, he sounds like all the crazy people that do these sorts of things. One of the great things about Death by Lightning, that James Garfield little miniseries on Netflix, was that the guy that assassinated President Garfield was just like all the people of the modern era. It's just a freaking nut loser struggling with life and then latched on something to vent his anger toward.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, yeah. Self important. Yeah.

[Katie Greener]

It didn't make any sense. Wow.

[Joe Getty]

This is. This is a really interesting slice of the modern world. The New York Times now Patrice Benoit, who has married Anthony Kesmerczyk, the man accused, blah, blah, blah, for a little less than four years, until 2017, said that she was, quote, heartbroken to hear of the attack and wanted to wish peace, strength and healing to everyone affected, including Ilhan's family and community and Anthony's family. And she's not had any interaction with the guy in eight years. But the New York Times got a quote from her.

[Katie Greener]

She Wishes everyone well, including the cat who had the urine extracted from it. Right.

[Joe Getty]

Or was gonna go anyway. It's all about timing.

[Katie Greener]

Unpleasant process. Probably cat pervert. Yeah. Way to go to his ex wife who hasn't talked to him in years and get a comment.

[Joe Getty]

What the hell.

[Katie Greener]

I know about as much about him right now as you do, so write whatever you want.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I didn't. The. At no time did he spray anything foul on any congress people when we were married. So I don't know what I'm going to tell.

[Katie Greener]

I feel like I'm off the hook at this point.

[Joe Getty]

Does he seem like the sort of guy who'd spray something? I don't know. I don't know.

[Katie Greener]

If you haven't seen the video though, one of the most notable things is Ilana Omar, as opposed to like backing up, goes forward almost, almost immediately goes toward the guy, even though they're, they're wrestling him and with her fist, like, if I have to get involved with this, I'm gonna punch the dude. So that's an interesting aspect of her personality.

[Joe Getty]

Well, she does come from a war torn hell hole, which tends to toughen a person up.

[Katie Greener]

Well, that's what I was wondering. I was talking to Hanson about that. She grew up wealthy and they got out of. Were falling apart. But that doesn't mean, you know, it wasn't a pretty rough childhood or I don't know. Or some people just have that personality. Yeah, I, I remember.

[Joe Getty]

Oh boy.

[Katie Greener]

I don't want to. I.

[Joe Getty]

Two kids, considering.

[Katie Greener]

I won't say what. Two kids. They are. Two kids. I know two kids when they were younger, like really young, like three and five. They got into it and when they got into it, one of them was taking steps backwards and the other ones was taking steps forwards. And I. That's just a flat out personality difference of how you react to that situation. You're either I'm coming after you or I'm trying to get out of this situation. And I just thought that was interesting. And she is a. I'm coming toward you person. Yeah. I wouldn't, I wouldn't be beating up on her if she decided to take steps back and let you know, bodyguards take care of this guy.

[Joe Getty]

Because she's got enormous goons. Well, right.

[Katie Greener]

And he might have a gun or a knife or whatever else.

[Joe Getty]

Unless he was a false flag operation. Who she hired.

[Katie Greener]

Unless Trump is right. And she had no reason to be afraid whatsoever and she wanted to look all hard ass.

[Joe Getty]

Right.

[Katie Greener]

Which is not impossible because she is Trump's Right. When he says she's the sort of person that would do this sort of thing. Marco Rubio is not. Let me pick a Democrat, to be fair, who's a Democrat that would not do this sort of thing. Rahm Emanuel wouldn't, but there's lots of Democrats that wouldn't either. Ilhan Omar is the sort of person that would.

[Joe Getty]

So they found. Everyone knows it. They found a middle aged patsy, a Neil, not in touch with his ex wife. He's got a cat that drinks too much water and they think, wait a minute, how do we turn this to our advantage?

[Katie Greener]

He owns an incontinent cat, They connect the dots.

[Joe Getty]

Cost him 500 bucks. Right. Right. And she gets sympathy. Right. When the whole. The liberal democracies are Gestapo and we need to overturn them. And yay with Marxism and Islamism. Speaking of which, Mamdani in New York City start, my friends, start using this filter. When you look at progressive policies. I'll explain the filter after this.

[Katie Greener]

Armstrong and Getty continuing a conversation Joe and I were having that you won't understand. How did that not come up? The lack of us being there come up. Like why aren't that. Did anybody. Oh, I didn't. As opposed to the way it turned out.

[Joe Getty]

I don't have any idea. I'm utterly mystified.

[Katie Greener]

Me too. Well, I'm tempted to follow that up anyway.

[Joe Getty]

Okay. I think you should sue Zoran Mumdani, who's the Islamist communist mayor of New York that the stupid fools voted for because they fell for some of the oldest cons in the world, including socialism and rent control and that sort of thing. He's got a cabal of anti Semite types around him that's fairly well known. His director of appointments had to resign after old posts in which he referred to money hungry Jews repeatedly came to light. Others used the word Jew as a slur. Praised Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for saying Israel is a cancer which will be eliminated very soon.

[Katie Greener]

Well, and we played that clip of Bill Maher yesterday where he said Democrats are trying to figure out if he's a Democrat or a Democrat Socialist. And Bill Maher, the lifelong Democrat, wouldn't vote for a Republican under any circumstances, I'm sure said, let me settle it for you. He's a communist.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Yeah. Well, he has hired an anti Israel activist who blamed Israel for October 7th. Defends the slogan from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free. He will serve as Mamdani's Orwellianly named deputy communications director for economic justice. This is Waleed Shahid, who has previously advised far left politicians like aoc and former Congressman Jamal Bowman, who you may remember was prone to panic attacks in vestibules which caused him to pull a fire alarm.

[Katie Greener]

Oh, God, that is so weak. How do you get to stay in Congress after you've pulled a fire alarm to try to get out of a meeting.

[Joe Getty]

Wow. Or to stop a vote?

[Katie Greener]

Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Joe Getty]

It was horrible. Of course he's a moron. His voter said, no, we, you know what? We want leftist lunatics, but not one this stupid. So they went with somebody else. But here's the, the thing I, I said we were talking about. I think it's useful. And Americans refusal to see organized leftism as what it is really interests me. It just as an amateur sociologist, I think it's that the whole Cold War being anti leftist, anti communist, anti socialist, is so out of fashion in the intelligentsia that they've done a good job of portraying anybody who sees neo Marxism for what it is as, you know, paranoid or something like that. It really, really interests me as somebody who's been studying political science since I was a child.

[Katie Greener]

Well, it's, it's, it's part of our history, though. You go back to the Whitaker change chambers, Alger Hiss, you know, Wikipedia if you want. That was such a giant moment in US History and the mainstream media and the left held onto the idea that it was awful the way we are going after Al, who turned out was a freaking communist.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Katie Greener]

He was working for the Soviet Union.

[Joe Getty]

Right, right. Well. And they were, you know, the press at the time was riddled with leftists, as it is now, and universities and the State Department were too. And so they manage. But again, the fact that they do what they do and did what they did, I get. But their ability to convince Americans that, oh, anybody who's seeing these shadowy figures, oh, no, it's communists or something, you know, you people are fools. And they've won the day culturally in a lot of ways, which is interesting to me. But anyway, so the filter I was talking. If you look at progressive policies, like what Zoran Mondomini is starting to do in New York through the filter of they don't want to solve the problem, they want to make the problem worse and overload the system. So the system collapses and then they can claim, look, the system has collapsed, it has failed. We need a new system. Hey, wait a minute, we have one. It's called socialism and everybody shares. And it's wonderful. Think about that. When I tell you this Mamdani has declared the New York City Police Department will not close down any junkie camps, any homeless camps, any tent cities across the five boroughs. They're not gonna clean out behind or, I'm sorry, under bridges or.

[Katie Greener]

Okay, well, after really cleaning up New York quite a bit over the last several. Many years. And to where? The last several times I've been to New York, I hardly saw a single homeless person. Welcome back. The homeless era of New York City. Soon, I would guess. Right?

[Joe Getty]

With diseases and death from cold and stabbings and continued junkie dumb and the rest of it. He knows that's going to bring New York to ruin. That's his point.

[Katie Greener]

Yeah, That'll make him happy. Interesting.

[Jack Armstrong]

Armstrong and Getty, all the medical providers grab some syringes with needles on the end, have them full of saline or succinylcholine, you know, whatever, Whatever. That will probably be a deterrent.

[Katie Greener]

Okay, before we get back to Mom Donami, the commie, we got into a conversation during the break. More about the. Whatever the syringe full of liquid was that was squirted on Ilhan Omar yesterday, if you've been following that story. So I didn't.

[News Reporter]

I didn't.

[Katie Greener]

I didn't know this term. So when she said succulents Congo or whatever, that nurse there. So as a TikTok viral video of a nurse saying, fill a syringe with succinic chlorine, or whatever that is, which a doctor friend of mine texted me, is a paralyzing agent. None of your skeletal muscles will. Will work. If you're injected with this, you cannot move, you cannot breathe, you cannot do anything. Without artificial ventilation, you will die. Oh, my God.

[Joe Getty]

I. I said yesterday it was a paralyzing agent. I didn't realize it paralyzed.

[Katie Greener]

Really big deal. So the fact that she suggested that, and then, you know, later that day, somebody gets a syringe and squirts something on a controversial congressperson. That alone is weird.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Katie Greener]

And then now Katie's got a conspiracy theory.

[Michael (Technical Director)]

Well, and the fact that she wasn't rushed immediately to a hospital or taken care of by some hazmat team not knowing what the substance was or even.

[Joe Getty]

Saying, look, folks, give me 10 minutes. I gotta change my shirt. I don't know what this stuff was.

[Katie Greener]

But maybe it's because we're so far from 9, 11 or whatever, but back in the day, you know, with the anthrax scares and everything like that, man, it would have been a lockdown Hazmat thing, like you're saying right there get her to a hospital. We don't know what this is. Wouldn't it have been.

[Joe Getty]

You'd think. As opposed to that tough. Jack.

[Katie Greener]

She's Minnesota Somali tough.

[Joe Getty]

Right. Yeah.

[Katie Greener]

There's more to this story. Why don't turn out to. Wouldn't this be all unbelievable if somebody can nail this down as one of your false flag operations or whatever you call those.

[Joe Getty]

I still doubt it.

[Katie Greener]

I doubt it too. I doubt and I still think it's.

[Joe Getty]

Outrageous that the President of the United States immediately played that card.

[Katie Greener]

Right.

[Joe Getty]

But the fact that she went at the guy with a fist cocked like she was going to fight him. He's a pretty big dude. Or he seemed to be a fairly big dude. Of course, her behemoth security guards were, you know, holding on to the guy.

[Katie Greener]

But.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I don't know. I don't think it was a setup. But if you do, I get it. Anyway, back to, you know, poo poo, pee pee stuff, oddly enough.

[Katie Greener]

What?

[Joe Getty]

Talking about Mamdani and his let the junkie camps grow policies, which is in defiance of the way New York's been going. Even though even under fairly progressive leadership. This is. It's crazy and outrageous. And even his fellow left lefties are like, what the hell are you doing? Which we will get to the reason the answer to that. But actually, interestingly, the New York Post wrote this. Mumdani is showing a misguided brand of compassion for the homeless and no compassion whatsoever for residents and business owners.

[Katie Greener]

That's the very phrase that I used in my own town because of our homeless situation. Where's the compassion for the taxpayer who lives here? But I was in New York over the summer with my kids and Sam and I were walking around all over the place talking about how when's the last time we saw a homeless person compared to the town we live in in New York. And now Mamdani is gonna, like, allow that to grow again. That's too bad.

[Joe Getty]

Well, right. But getting back to that sentence that the New York Post wrote, He's showing a misguided brand of compassion for the homeless. Once again, even the cynical New York Post is taking at face value his reasons for doing his stated reasons for doing what he's doing. We've gotta be more compassionate to the homeless. They actually come around later in the article, which is weird, but encampments, they point out crime, filth, and distressing declines in street civility. They also bring diseases like leptospirosis, a bacterial infection that can lead to kidney damage, meningitis, and even Death. Officials in Berkeley, California right now are battling a leptospirosis outbreak in local junkie camps. The germ is found in cat urine. I'm sorry, rat urine. I'm fixated on cat urine. The germ is found.

[Katie Greener]

What animal this urine comes from, we can't just to be inaccurate. It's important we get it right.

[Joe Getty]

It's found in rat weasel urine. It spreads via contaminated surfaces or liquids, blah, blah, blah. Even local Democrats are infuriated by mum Donnie's unwillingness clear encampments. People are upset, said one of the city council ladies. Uh, you cannot have defecating. You not cannot have food on the street. You cannot have all these boxes. Eric Adams took a hard line against the encampment, but here it is. But Mumdani's policy aims to use the homeless as political, political tools as he pushes a vision of government controlled housing. What better, you know, visual aid to say, look, clearly the government needs to be in charge of housing. Look at all these poor unfortunate people who are. You're all one bill away from being where they are. No, they're, they're, they're junkies.

[Katie Greener]

Yeah. And even, even if you're not a prop, even if you're not a Marxist, wanting to tear down the country, this is probably was the thinking in San Francisco for a long time. It's not good that there are areas of the city where the rich people eat, work and shop where there are no homeless people. Then they get to ignore the problem, the income inequality that we deal with every day. So we got to get these homeless people in front of Saks Fifth Avenue, in front of Morton Steakhouse, in front of where the Mercedes are parked so that they're forced to reckon with income inequality. And that's what he's going to do in New York, right?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, exactly correct. They mentioned that even Gavin Newsom, for the love of God, who's. He's not a Marxist. He's just a criminal and a liar. And the rest of it criminal? Oh, absolutely, yeah, yeah. He spreads out billions of dollars in taxpayer money to his cronies. It's graft. It's good old fashioned graft. But even like your Gavi, newsoms of the world have realized, all right, we got to remove the encampments or the, you know, the people are going to go crazy. The LAPD, they mentioned crime data shows from 2018 to 2022, the quote unquote, homeless who are again, mostly junk junkies. It's not some poor single mom who was one bill away from Blah, blah, blah. It's junkies. But anyway, 1% of the population, 11 to 15% of all violent crime suspects. 11 to 15 times more likely to be a violent crime suspect.

[Katie Greener]

I'm surprised it's not higher.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Anyway, but Mamdani's gonna use him as a visual aid and a prop and an argument for greater Marxist government control. Whether it works or not, we shall see.

[Katie Greener]

You want to know what my sigh was? Looking up at the television. Oh, some news outlet. Their news right now is a bunch of pictures of Sydney Sweeney and lingerie.

[Joe Getty]

I thought it was Epstein. I thought it was an Epstein.

[Katie Greener]

I wish it was Epstein. That's closer to a news story than Sydney Sweeney's hotel. But she got run and follow the law and any excuse. So she hangs bras from the Hollywood sign. It's a minor trespassing thing. But then you can claim that's a news story. And then you do two minutes of pictures of her in lingerie, various states of undress. This picture they got up there right now, where she's in a movie theater in, like, the sexiest of lingerie with a popcorn bucket pouring it onto her face with her head tilted back. I mean, it's just practically porn. And this is your news story?

[Joe Getty]

How many days do you figure they can milk this story for? No pun intended.

[Katie Greener]

I just. It's. I don't know how you do that. I'd be embarrassed. We're a news site. This is one of the newsiest periods in my lifetime of things going on. And we're gonna spend two minutes on Cindy Sweeney just to show her with boobs, hoping people will stick around longer.

[Joe Getty]

Sydney Sweeney has made a statement about the charges. She has made a statement. Quick, get some more cheesecake pics of her ready.

[Katie Greener]

That's so weak.

[Joe Getty]

I know. It's the dumbing down of America. And look, you know, I've done a fact check. She is hot. Really? Oh, yeah. But, yeah, yeah, we're about to, you know, but there's maybe attack Iran. There's China's. Blah, blah, blah.

[Katie Greener]

There are plenty of places to go to see her. Someone who looks like her. Really doing anything your imagination can come up with is one click away on your things.

[Joe Getty]

It probably can't.

[Katie Greener]

So why God. Now they're going through the loop again. I love it when TV stations do that. They've done all the pictures. We got to start it over again. They got to go through the scroll again one more time. All the different pics we've got as we cover the news story. It's a misdemeanor, but it could carry a fine up to. Oh, whatever. Shut up. Quit pretending.

[Joe Getty]

This is day two or three of Ms. Sweeney and her breast is least a couple leading the news.

[Katie Greener]

Yeah, the trespassing on the Hollywood sign.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Katie Greener]

Okay, we will finish strong.

[Joe Getty]

Next, Armstrong and Getty.

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[Katie Greener]

Okay, so conversation before the show is. Is Gary Busey jerking us all around pretending to be a weirdo or is he actually having listened to that, he's completely bonkers.

[Joe Getty]

That is not. He no longer retains his marbles.

[Katie Greener]

By the way, if you're not hip to the Gary Busey story going way back, he's pretty much always been this way. I remember Melan Letterman back when he was Oscar nominated, Buddy Holly actor. He was nuts.

[Joe Getty]

Well, now, was that in pre motorcycle accident?

[Katie Greener]

Accident, he was nuts.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Katie Greener]

Then he cracked his head open. Then he got caught masturbating on a park bench in la. That was a low moment.

[Joe Getty]

Who's judging whom now?

[Katie Greener]

Come on, right?

[Joe Getty]

We all have our mistakes.

[Katie Greener]

Pot, kettle, casting stones. I understand.

[Joe Getty]

Right. Glass houses.

[Katie Greener]

Can we transition into something serious? I suppose we should. I'm paying a lot of attention to the Iran story. I think it's way, way underplayed right now. I mean we could be in a full on one of the biggest military battles we've been in in 10, 15, 50 years. Very easily with Iran, depending on how things turn out here. Here's a little report from. I don't know, what is this from? What's the story is. What the hell is that? Is that a show somewhere? Anyway, I want to hear number 80 there, Michael.

[News Reporter]

The U.S. military is fortifying its position in case of a potential strike on Iran. The USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group is now in the Indian Ocean. President Trump has threatened military action over Tehran's crackdown on anti government protesters. Rights groups report at least 5,500 have been killed with an additional 17,000 deaths still being reviewed. Allies are urging the US not to strike.

[Katie Greener]

I don't understand the news organizations that are going with those really low numbers. Some organizations like CBS goes with the 15, 20,000 but a lot of organizations go 3,500 according to the government, but some say higher. Why are you giving them the. You don't do that. Probably when it's Hamas and Hamas giving you the information, you go with their number.

[Joe Getty]

Right. Why is that?

[Katie Greener]

Anyway, I don't want to get sidetracked by that. This is from same news program on how Iran's responding to this.

[Iran News Correspondent]

Iran's leadership is sending a very strong and defiant message to the United States and specifically, of course, to the Trump administration. You could see it here on this gigantic poster on Revolution Square in central Tehran. The message on this massive poster is, if you sow the wind, you will reap the whirlwind, obviously, meaning if the United States attacks Iran, Iran will retaliate in a massive way, which could of course, lead to a major military confrontation between the United States and Iran.

[Joe Getty]

Could. I'm calling camel crap on that.

[Katie Greener]

You are, because. So we used to have a listener named Basil who was from Iraq. And it was very handy having a correspondent who grew up in Iraq when, you know, Iraq war and all the various things were going on. But he, he would always like, roll his eyes at that sort of stuff. I know blood running in the streets. I grew up in Iraq. They say that all the time about everything that's coming. They. Blood running the streets of death. And you're. And you're saying the same thing there.

[Joe Getty]

Well, yeah, yeah. Partly because they have no air defenses. I mean, we could lay waste to the country, never mind, you know, our incredible abilities as a military and a superpower. But the Israelis utterly exposed, well, in the US on the attack on the Fordo facility, the nuclear facility, utterly exposed their lack of air defenses. What, Seriously? They're going to get into it with their hands are handcuffed behind their back defensively.

[Katie Greener]

Now, what they're saying is, so we did that big strike on their nuclear facilities and they had to save face by, you know, hitting back at the Great Satan. But they gave us a heads up. We're going to hit this military base, suggest you get your people out of there. We got our people out of there. They hit it, nobody gets hurt. They, they're saying ain't going to happen this time around. We're going full after your military bases. We're going to try to kill as many as you want. We ain't kidding. That's what they're saying. Whether they mean it or not. I don't know. They may mean it because they'd be in a full on existential threat. We might as well try it because if we, if this doesn't work, I'm going to be hanging upside down and chopped up in pieces in the street in a revolution. So, you know, do I have much of a chance of taking on the Great Satan and winning? No, I have zero chance if I, if I stay here and a revolution happens. Other angle of this is the aircraft carrier that's there. The, the, the amount of firepower we have. Any time an aircraft carrier is anywhere is just crazy. I mean, we could do anything, anything you can imagine militarily. But Saudi Arabia announced today they're not going to let us use their airspace. So if you try to attack Iran, you can't go through Saudi Arabia like you did last time when you took out their nuclear stuff.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, that's the old story in the Middle East. They've got to not go too far because then the radicals in their midst will go crazy and create domestic problems for them. It's, you're the best you have is, you know, friends of convenience in the Middle East.

[Katie Greener]

But you asked the question earlier and it's a good one of do we go to war with Iran? Iran's a serious country, you know, even with what Joe said there, their defenses are down and all that sort of stuff. They're a serious country. They've killed a lot of Americans over the years. Do we go to war with Iran because they were too heavy handed with their protesters?

[Joe Getty]

Wow, that's, that's a really interesting question.

[Katie Greener]

I don't think that's the right question, but it's when I ask, I'll have the right question in moments.

[Joe Getty]

Well, the reason it's so interesting is that that sort of pretext, that sort of COVID for why now? Well, they were slaughtering their people in the streets. You know, in the world of realpolitik, looked at, you know, over the long term, that sort of thing doesn't matter. I mean, it's sickening and on a human level it matters tremendously, but it doesn't really matter strategically as you look 50 years down the road. But that sort of thing is frequently used as a pretext.

[Katie Greener]

If Trump thinks it's a good idea to use that as the causus belli or whatever you say for why we're doing that's fine. I think the conversation they're having is do we want to take out the Iranian leadership and hope that something better comes together under it? They're never going to be weaker than they are now. They're the number one enemy of the United States. Over the last 50 years. Should we or shouldn't we? I think that's the question, right?

[Joe Getty]

Clearly.

[Katie Greener]

I don't know. I don't know what my answer is either.

[Joe Getty]

Holmes here, freezing my cheeks off in Texas right now, waiting for Donald Trump to commute my sentence. Maybe you could ask for me now. Final thoughts.

[Katie Greener]

Well, that's a throwback.

[Joe Getty]

Wow.

[Katie Greener]

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

[Joe Getty]

Hey, let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew to wrap things up for the day. There is our technicule director, Michelangelo Michael. What's your final thought?

[Michael (Technical Director)]

We were talking about self defense driving. And I'm waiting for the day when you can be going down the road, you look over and somebody's sitting in the back seat with their feet hanging out the window and the car is just driving.

[Katie Greener]

You know, I think we're close to that reality.

[Joe Getty]

Be a beautiful, beautiful day when it happens. Katie Greener, esteemed news woman, has a final thought.

[Katie Greener]

Katie?

[Michael (Technical Director)]

I'm going with it. This whole Elon Omar story, I don't believe it. She pulled a Jesse Smollett.

[Katie Greener]

That'd be so awesome if we could figure that out.

[Joe Getty]

You're the female Alex Jones. This is outrageous. This is a crazy claim. Jack, a final thought for us.

[Katie Greener]

Trying to answer my own question. Do I think we should go to war with Iran? I think I'm a yes. I think if I'm in that room and they need me to vote, here's our chance. Let's take it.

[Joe Getty]

It's definitely the sort of thing that can go sideways.

[Katie Greener]

Absolutely could.

[Joe Getty]

But if you avoid everything that could go sideways, you will do nothing. Whether as an individual or a country, I am no monger of war. But it is a hell of an opportunity and they have been an awful malign presence for a very long time.

[Katie Greener]

Armstrong and Yeti wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.

[Joe Getty]

Yank him out by the beard. That's what you got to do, Jack. You're the author of that plan.

[Katie Greener]

Yep. We will have all of your Sydney Sweeney news and updates tomorrow.

[Joe Getty]

Boy, so many people to thank, so little time. Go To Armstrong and getty.com for the hot links for Katie's Corner. Drop us a Note [e-mail] Pick up some Angie swag. I myself am sporting the Armstrong and Getty champion hoodie. Deliciously warm and comfy.

[Katie Greener]

La Sweeney's lawyer will be in court today to respond to the charges that just any reason to have that news story continue so they can put pictures of her in a bra on television. That is so weak. Oh, my God. We will see you tomorrow. God bless America.

[Joe Getty]

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[Katie Greener]

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