He's Rich...She's a Man

Summary

Armstrong & Getty On Demand

Episode: He's Rich...She's a Man
Date: June 15, 2026

Episode Overview

This episode sees Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty dive into current headlines and social commentary, focusing on:

• The controversy over Elon Musk’s newfound status as a “trillionaire” and debates about wealth, government contracts, and economic misconceptions.
• A detailed discussion of Fareed Zakaria’s recent scathing analysis of California’s mismanagement and decline.
• Colorful coverage of Trump’s 80th birthday UFC event at the White House, with jaw-dropping soundbites.
• Reactions—often amused, sometimes critical—to social and political trends, including the identity politics of major parties and international takes on American life during the World Cup.

Throughout, the hosts maintain their irreverent, skeptical, and sharp-witted style.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Soccer’s Place in America

[03:08–04:34]

• Commentary on the World Cup in Los Angeles and America’s unique relationship with soccer:
  • Most kids in the U.S. play soccer as young children, but few remain fans into adulthood.
  • Armstrong reads from Neil Ferguson’s essay: soccer fandom as “addiction and collective suffering.”
  • Quote: “Most of the world considers soccer the number one sport. Here it’s... where you put your kids when you don’t want to pay for daycare.” (Sports Commentator 1, 03:16)

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2. Elon Musk, Trillionaires & Economic Illiteracy

[05:10–16:10]

• Extended critique of the backlash toward Elon Musk becoming the first trillionaire:
  • Many on the left, including politicians like AOC and Bernie Sanders, allege Musk’s wealth is a product of government subsidies, taking from taxpayers.
  • Armstrong & Getty argue these are competitive contracts where Musk delivered results cheaper than NASA.
  • “So many people feel like Elon becoming a trillionaire took money out of their pockets. That’s insane.” (Joe Getty, 05:44)
  • Discussion highlights the difference between true handouts and payment for services rendered.
  • Musk’s companies create jobs, pay record taxes, and drive innovation. Conversely, failed subsidized programs yield no returns.
  • Quote: “Wealth is not a pie of a fixed size; you can create wealth.” (Jack Armstrong, 10:00)
  • The politics of envy and zero-sum thinking are called out harshly.
  • On capping income: “Envy is like a shot of fentanyl. It just numbs you.” (Jack Armstrong, 15:19)
  • Getty frames business achievement as something to admire, not demonize.

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3. Trump’s 80th Birthday UFC Event at the White House

[20:17–24:19]

• Trump celebrates with a UFC cage match on the White House lawn, attended by right-leaning celebrities.
• Highlights an over-the-top post-fight interview:

  “There’s only one person more incredible than the Incredible Hulk, and that’s my Lord and savior, Jesus Christ... Michelle Obama is a man, am I right, America?” (Josh Hockett via Weston McKenna, 21:52–22:21)

• Armstrong & Getty react with bemusement, noting the lack of decorum and making tongue-in-cheek historical comparisons.
• Comparison is drawn to Joe Biden’s drag queen celebration: “In an ugly world where men must be ready for war, yeah, I’d rather have a punch up... than that sick, twisted, troubled individual showing his completely fake breasts to America for some reason.” (Jack Armstrong, 24:01)

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4. American Identity, Ideological Entrenchment, and Political Bubbles

[24:25–24:57; 39:19–41:51]

• Discussion of how personal identity is tied to party affiliation, making it difficult for voters to change their minds.
• Armstrong: “One of the cornerstones of your identity is that conservatism is evil... It makes going trans look subtle.” (39:19)
• Speculation on what “too-red” Republican states look like: perhaps restrictive abortion laws or performative legislation, though less severe than left-wing monocultures.

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5. Fareed Zakaria’s Blistering California Takedown

[29:32–38:23]

a. Fiscal Management & Governance

• Zakaria describes California as “a case study in how a rich society can spend more and more while producing less and less of what its ordinary citizens need.”
• Government spending has ballooned without commensurate improvements in outcomes.
• “The state employee number has grown 50% this century.” (Joe Getty, 31:04)

b. Housing Failure

• Strict zoning and litigious environment stifle residential construction.
• Excessive regulations impede progress.

c. Public Education

• Despite per-pupil spending being well above the national average, educational results remain dismal.
• “In the 2024 Nations Report Card, California was 43rd in fourth grade math, 39th in fourth grade reading, 36th in eighth grade math, and 38th in eighth grade reading.” (Fareed Zakaria, 31:52)

d. Employment Trends

• CA’s economic growth driven by a few industries; public spending used to hide sluggish private sector job creation.
• “The state is using public spending to paper over private sector stagnation.” (Zakaria, 32:54)

e. Homelessness

• $24 billion spent over five years, yet record-high homelessness persists.
• “The Capital California audit of Sacramento homeless shelter costs showed no strong link to good outcomes. They couldn’t find a link to it doing any damned good. Yet the money continues to flow.” (Jack Armstrong, 34:13)

f. Hollywood’s Decline

• Film and TV production fleeing to other states and countries due to taxes and regulation.
• “When nothing is happening, [Michael Linton] said, Los Angeles is becoming a sunny version of Detroit.” (Zakaria, 36:05)

g. Summary & Political Implications

• Despite crumbling institutions, most voters aren’t becoming Republicans. Zakaria asks: “Why does a state with so much money, talent, and promise make life for ordinary people so hard?” (37:57)
• Armstrong notes the blue state’s “sucker scale” is registering unrest but not nearly enough for major change.

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6. World Cup Soccer & International Reactions to America

[45:46–49:48]

• Coverage of the U.S. team’s victorious performance and the festive atmosphere.
• Stories from visiting Europeans marveling at American gas stations, barbecues, convenience stores, and “flyover” military displays at sporting events.
• “It’s the beaver nugget nuggets at Bucky’s. I don’t even know what that is.” (Jack Armstrong, 47:53)
• Amused at the international spelling of “Türkiye”: “America runs the world. We spell it like our Thanksgiving dinner.” (Joe Getty, 46:58)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Economic Fallacies:

  “Wealth is not a pie of a fixed size. You can create wealth... If you don’t know this, you will be an ignoramus till the day you die.”
  — Jack Armstrong [10:00]

• On Political Identity:

  “One of the cornerstones of your identity is that conservatism is evil... It makes going trans look subtle.”
  — Jack Armstrong [39:19]

• On California’s Mismanagement:

  “It is a case study in how a rich society can spend more and more while producing less and less.”
  — Fareed Zakaria [29:32]
  “When nothing is happening, [the movie lots] are becoming a sunny version of Detroit.”
  — Fareed Zakaria [36:05]

• Trump UFC Event Soundbite:

  “There’s only one person more incredible than the Incredible Hulk, and that’s my Lord and savior, Jesus Christ... Michelle Obama is a man, am I right, America?”
  — Josh Hockett via Weston McKenna [21:52–22:21]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Soccer in America & Fandom: 03:08–04:34
• Elon Musk: Wealth, Contracts & Envy: 05:10–16:10
• Trump’s UFC Birthday Bash: 20:17–24:19
• Fareed Zakaria on California’s Mismanagement: 29:32–38:23
• Political Identity and American Partisanship: 39:19–41:51
• World Cup & International Impressions of America: 45:46–49:48

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Tone & Delivery

• The hosts employ a witty, sardonic, and occasionally exasperated tone.
• Passionate about economic literacy, skeptical of government inefficiency, and unafraid to poke fun at spectacle and ideology on all sides.
• The show blends incisive social commentary with humor and a sense of cultural bewilderment.

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This episode is a must for listeners interested in the intersection of politics, economics, and American culture—offering both sharp critiques and lively entertainment throughout.

Transcript

[Jack Armstrong]

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[Jack Armstrong]

broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and get.

[Joe Getty]

And now here's Armstrong and Yeti.

[Sports Commentator 1]

A lot of sports going on. The World cup is here in la. Most of the world,

[Fareed Zakaria]

people love it.

[Sports Commentator 1]

Yeah, most of the world considers soccer the number one sport here. It's, it's, it's for where you put your kids when you don't want to pay for daycare. That's I don't get the attraction of soccer. I, I, I don't there's, there's more scoring at Bible camp. But okay, if you love it, you love it and I'm glad you have it.

[Joe Getty]

I grew up before soccer became a thing so I'd never played soccer in my life. Now I Very, very few little kids don't play soccer at least one year when they're like five years old.

[Jack Armstrong]

Very very few.

[Joe Getty]

But write a good piece somewhere New York Times or somewhere on and this was someone who doesn't care for soccer really either as a grown up and played when they're a kid like where the breakdown has occurred in America because it's now like everybody plays soccer. Everybody puts their kid in soccer.

[Jack Armstrong]

Every kid plays soccer.

[Joe Getty]

And then there's somewhere a breakdown between that and the popularity of it and they went through the ratings and comparing it to major league Baseball and basketball and all the different things and just we just somewhere in there we lose our interest in soccer as opposed to other countries where they, they, they just absolutely they, they played as little kids and then love it the rest of their lives.

[Jack Armstrong]

That is an interesting dichotomy for sure. Neil Ferguson, the historian wrote a beautiful piece quoting an author who wrote one of the most famous books about soccer ever. About how soccer fans, hardcore fans like the Euros that they're their fans in order to suffer because and they all suffer together and it's mostly frustration and it's a, it's like an addiction which I don't quite get. I enjoy watching the games but then if I don't for a year and a half I don't miss it.

[Joe Getty]

I don't know how far to get into the weeds on this whole Elon Musk conversation. I got sucked into it because it was making me so mad. Over the weekend the number of posts I was seeing and cable news hosts on the non Fox channels about how all various government. Your elon Musk, Sierra, AOCs, your Bernie Sanders. I predicted this on Friday. We would hear from them by the end of the day, and we did. They all had very strong statements about how awful this is and how it's a sign that our country is just completely off track that we now have a trillionaire.

[My Favorite Murder Narrator]

Wow.

[Joe Getty]

And somehow believe. They seem to actually believe, as do a lot of the people that vote for them, that Elon having a trillion dollars took money out of your pocket. So, like I tweeted out that specific phrase over the weekend, something along the lines of, I can't believe the economic literacy we have in this country thanks to our public school system, that so many people feel like Elon becoming a trillionaire took money out of their pockets. That's insane. Well, the pushback is all the various government subsidies or contracts that he has that still don't make sense for, for all kinds of reasons that I can read to you. Here's one. This was a pushback against a. A senator that had posted that, you know, the taxpayers made Elon Musk rich, not Elon Musk, by us giving him all these various breaks. Elon Musk was awarded, not given cost per result, contracts to perform a service for the US government. The total of those for SpaceX specifically is $22 billion, which includes repaid loans, state tax incentives, etc. The deal was simple. Put stuff into low entry orbit at or below a set cost. If SpaceX does it below the set cost, SpaceX keeps the difference. If it doesn't, the company is responsible for the overrun. It was SpaceX versus first of all, they, they bid against other companies and won out, and then against NASA. The end result is that SpaceX and Elon lowered the cost of getting a kilogram into low entry orbit by a hundred percent versus what NASA was previously doing. In other words, it would cost us, the taxpayer, all this stuff we were trying to put in space, so much more money if we did it with the government program of NASA versus the SpaceX program of Elon. In other words, we got tremendous bang for our buck.

[Jack Armstrong]

And as a government, we incentized innovation in a way that's going to pay off for generations. Centuries maybe.

[Joe Getty]

Right? And then once again, responding to this particular senator, most of what is cited are government contracts. The money going to Elon Musk. You see, the government which you help run, I forget which Senator, it was one, one of your lefty socialist centers. The government which you help run wanted services and decided his company was best to provide them, which they did at a negotiated Price. How on earth that entitles you to the profit he made providing those services which you guys wanted and agreed to is beyond, well, anyone, especially me. And the subsidies he got for electric cars were from your party because he did what you wanted him to do. Remember when he was your darling. So there's that part of it. I was against the subsidies for all the electric cars. I don't think taxpayers should be giving Everybody else a $7,500 or $12,000 break on their electric car to incentivize them. But all y' all on the left decided that was a good idea, which got Elon started on the whole rich thing. But on, on the, the other thing with SpaceX is we were mentioning earlier, Elon's the biggest taxpayer in world history already, and that is going to go exponentially higher because of all of his dealings, everything like that, plus the hundreds of thousands of jobs and all the taxes that they pay. And this has been pointed out already in a couple of these things. I've read the service that are being provided to people that people want. Where are you all complaining? When the cylinders of the world happen, they take your tax money, they give it to these green ideas that never pan out. So you don't get any jobs, you don't get any green energy, you get zero bang for your buck.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right? Right.

[Joe Getty]

Cronies get rich tax money because nobody's profiting in any way. And when is anybody complaining about that? So when one of these programs works out and somebody makes some money, then you're angry. That is just nonsensical. Beyond nonsensical.

[Jack Armstrong]

I wish I still had in front of me that brilliant essay I read you part of a few weeks ago about how when the rich have a successful business and they come up with more, they end up with more money than they could ever spend. They don't spend it. You know, depending on which guy you're talking about, maybe they buy a super yacht or whatever, but most of it, they reallocate. They take that money and put it somewhere they think is even more productive, creating more companies, more jobs. And if you are Mark Zuckerberg and you decide you want a mega yacht, okay, hey, somebody built that mega yacht. Somebody's maintaining it mechanically. You have captains and crewmen and cooks and cleaners and dock workers and all sorts of people. That creates wealth. The wealth of the world. Here's the one thing you have to know. If you don't know this, you will be an ignoramus till the day you die. Wealth is not a Pie of a fixed size, you can create wealth. Wealth can start with a dollar and end up with a trillion dollars a few generations later. If people are smart and they allocate, you allocate money wisely. Oh, my God.

[Joe Getty]

That seems to be one of the breakdowns, is that in watching the pushback. The pushback seems to come from a crowd that thinks there is a fixed amount of money. Always right. That was Senator Ed Markley, by the way. How much of Musk's wealth, How much of Musk's wealth comes from government help? Virtually all of it.

[Jack Armstrong]

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[Joe Getty]

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[Joe Getty]

Incogni.com armstrong for instance, this back and forth, which was on our Twitter feed. Elon gets paid roughly $8 million a day by the American taxpayer via his government contracts. Explain how taxpayer subdies aren't literally money out of our pockets. One of our very smart listeners, thankfully was willing to argue with all these people all day yesterday when I wasn't somebody that goes by the handle common sense. Do you understand the difference between a contract for delivering A service or product versus a handout? I don't think so.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, well said. That's astonishing ignorance.

[Joe Getty]

Nearly all competitive contracts that had deliverables, launches, Starlink services, etc. SpaceX won those awards by offering a lower cost than other companies or that the government could do themselves.

[Jack Armstrong]

The government understand the difference between Stacey Abrams and SpaceX.

[Joe Getty]

That was Elon's pushback. For instance, the Stacey Abrams thing. Stacey Abrams started an NGO and 30 days later was given $2 billion by the Biden administration. She has not had to return a penny of that. The NGO never did anything. And there are tons of those kinds of things that happen all the time are do you all get mad about that or you just don't notice because they're failures? They're all failures. And so nobody is making money off of that. If we could invest in someone that would clean up the homeless situation and make it cheaper than all the homeless government programs and that guy gets rich, I'll sign up for it today.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right.

[Joe Getty]

I don't care if he gets rich if it ends up being cheaper than the government programs that are doing nothing. You give out money to these green. I keep mentioning the green programs because there's. But there's tons of stuff that's not the. Just all kinds of crap that they put money into that doesn't produce any taxpayer revenue, doesn't make a thing, it doesn't do anything for anybody. It's not a product that people want. It's just a money hole.

[Fareed Zakaria]

Right?

[Joe Getty]

Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

So we've been addressing the faulty and dopey he had government contracts argument. We haven't even gotten to the main socialist argument, which is that income essentially should be capped and once you have a certain amount, you should be restricted from ever making anymore. I want to get to that. I will tell you two things. I'm going to lay two truth bombs on you. One is an old great old saying. I can't remember who came up with it. But a triumph is temporary because you'll go seek new challenges and battles and you might not win all of them, but an excuse is eternal because you can just lay there with your excuse covering you like a warm blanket and never try anything. All right, that's truth bomb number one. Number two is envy is like a shot of fentanyl. It just numbs you. You get sleepy, you bend over at the waist and you stop thinking. The politics of envy are so powerful and so easy.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I hope I raise my kids in such a way that they have the feeling I have when there is a, you know, a guy like Jeff Bezos inventing Amazon or Bill Gates and you know, doing what he did with computers all through the 90s or Elon now. I think it's freaking cool as heck. I admire it. I want, I wish I could be more like that as opposed to the immediate feeling being I've just been taken from.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's bad.

[Joe Getty]

I have a negative feeling you stole from me. God, that's sick.

[Jack Armstrong]

Because the valuation of his company is such that his share of it makes him a trillionaire. You lost what? How? What?

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[Georgia Hardstark]

We cruised around LA in the Hyundai Ioniq 5 and dove into the fascinating life of actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Want the full story? Take a listen.

[My Favorite Murder Narrator]

She starts dating Howard Hughes and in fact she helps him design a faster plane so she finds the fastest bird and the fastest fish and sketches out a drawing of what the two would look like as a plane. And that becomes the plane that we know today. And he calls her a genius.

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Yesterday was Trump's 80th birthday. Is that right? And he claimed all along that the big giant UFC match on the White House lawn was not because it was his 80th birthday. It was just a coincidence. It was part of the 250th anniversary of our country celebration. But clearly it was for his 80th birthday. Funny piece in the Wall Street Journal today. Of all things, what astrologers see in Trump's birthday horoscope in the Wall Street

[Jack Armstrong]

Journal, what phrenologists have to say the President.

[Joe Getty]

That's people who read the lumps on your head, folks. As I recall, yes, the President's cage match celebration Makes perfect sense for a Gemini. The Wall Street Journal goes on to explain. What the hell, right?

[Jack Armstrong]

Anywho, they stoned over there. Was there a gas leak?

[Joe Getty]

I don't know.

[Jack Armstrong]

So it was. Yeah, go ahead.

[Joe Getty]

So they had a whole bunch of different matches and stuff like that. And it's like, you know, bouts. I don't follow UFC for real, but I did see the celebrity pictures. Anybody who's. Anybody leaning right. Celebrity or politician was there with Shane Gillis to J.D.

[Jack Armstrong]

vance. They were all there, Jack and Joe Rogan and.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, all kinds of different people. So I don't know this heavyweight guy who won his match.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, Josh Hockett. He's a stud. Oh, boy.

[Joe Getty]

He won his match. And then, you know, they put the microphone in his hand. He's all amped up, having just beaten the crap out of some guy in front of the President of the United states on his 80th birthday. And he had this to say, hey,

[Weston McKenna]

shout out to Trump for having the balls to put some like this on. And if I'm gonna anything, there's only one person more incredible than the Incredible Hulk, and that's my Lord and savior, Jesus Christ. Now listen, Alex Pereira, I want a shama on your mama.

[Ryan Reynolds]

What?

[Weston McKenna]

And lastly, Michelle Obama is a man. Am I right, America?

[Jack Armstrong]

That was not as dignified as when John Quincy Adams Jr. Held a Virginia Real in the Eastern. Oh, my God.

[Joe Getty]

It took a turn mentioning Jesus. And then that I like.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, that was quite the winding road, wasn't it, Michael?

[Joe Getty]

I like him saying Jesus is even a bigger deal than Hulk Hogan. Okay, yes, Michelle Obama is a man. He closes with.

[Jack Armstrong]

After winning his fight, Hockett, wearing an American flag, bandana, and sunglasses, presented Trump with his gold chain necklace. That's a beautiful moment. So not quite Churchill in the Resolute desk or whoever. Get it? Was that Queen Elizabeth. Doesn't matter.

[Joe Getty]

That was some flyover. I don't know if you saw that. Some of our coolest. That was. That was awesome. I should have been there for that. I. I'm not. Not, like, hurt or appalled by this, but I mean, if I got to vote, do we do that or not? I would go with a no.

[Jack Armstrong]

I say bring back the roller derby next right there on the South Lawn.

[Joe Getty]

But for everyone who has pointed out Joe Biden, during June when he was president, had

[Jack Armstrong]

up with trans.

[Joe Getty]

What do you call the dudes who dress like women and dance around? Drag queens.

[Jack Armstrong]

Queens, yeah.

[Joe Getty]

At the Drag Queen Dance Celebration up on a stage. So is that also dignified in a way? That I'd like. No.

[Jack Armstrong]

In an ugly world where men must be ready for war. Yeah, I'd rather have a punch up and, and you know, nutty fighters saying, oh, Michelle Obama's a man than, than that sick, twisted, troubled individual showing his completely fake breasts to America for some reason.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, that's right. The guy took his shirt off. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So there you go.

[Jack Armstrong]

You know what I want to bring you, speaking of America and what a wonderful country this is. Although last night, I agree, was kind of out there. European or international soccer fans coming to the US and marveling at this country, seeing it for the first time.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I've seen that Twitter meme.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, it's fun.

[Joe Getty]

People who've never seen a giant, giant convenience store before, for instance, like in the US and apparently don't have in Europe.

[Jack Armstrong]

Fareed Zakaria believes California is falling apart.

[Joe Getty]

I wonder why he thinks that. Among other things.

[Jack Armstrong]

On the way.

[Georgia Hardstark]

Armstrong and getty

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[Joe Getty]

We gotta check in on Oran again. There's some new details and quotes come out have come out. Not details about the deal though. For some reason that's being kept a secret. What kind of who announces a peace deal and then we. But we won't tell you what's in it. What is that? It's.

[Sports Commentator 1]

It's.

[Jack Armstrong]

We have a memorandum of understanding of a framework for a negotiation.

[Joe Getty]

That's not a deal.

[Jack Armstrong]

No, it's not. To our surprise and delight, FAREED Zakaria on CNN's what the Hell's in the Compass Point GPS. That's it. Unleashed a 6 minute 13 second screed last night that was utterly calm, gentlemanly, non bomb chuckery and an incredibly thorough indictment of the misgovernance of the state of California. It was absolutely terrific. He's a man of, I would say the center left. He used to make me a little nuts talking about foreign policy because he was very much the internationalist. But I think this is so good. Let's start with 51. Work our way, Michael.

[Fareed Zakaria]

The frustration is real and justified. California is one of the most dynamic places on the planet. It has Silicon Valley, Hollywood, world class universities, extraordinary agriculture, ports, talent and natural beauty. But it is a case study in how a rich society can spend more and more while producing less and less of what its ordinary citizens need. The paradox of California today is a successful economy attached to a failing model of governance. Consider the fiscal record. Since 2000, California's population has grown by roughly 15%. But the state's general expenditures have grown more than 200% from 78 billion to about $248 billion. General spending per person has risen from about 2,300 to about $6,300. The number of state employees has grown by more than 50% by one count. Does anyone think that California government and its benefits have gotten 200% better in the last 25 years?

[Joe Getty]

I live here, so I know it's not true.

[Weston McKenna]

Wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

I knew the expenditures and number of employees had skyrocketed. But that is beyond, I mean beyond reasonableness certainly is practically beyond imagination. It is a giant jobs program for cronies and lackeys.

[Joe Getty]

The state employee number has grown 50% this century.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, wow. So in the next section he talks about the failure of housing in California. And the essence of it is that California produces new dwellings at a rate that is a tiny fraction of other functioning governments production of those dwellings because of incredibly strict zoning and hypocritical zoning and also the you can sue developers over A list of 150 different ridiculous things as a blackmail so they have to pay you off. And how that culture is rampant in California and so they under build housing. Let's move on to 53 where he talks about education.

[Fareed Zakaria]

Oh, look at education. For years California schools had a plausible excuse. They were underfunded. Total spending on education through 12th grade has more than doubled since the early 2010s and per pupil spending by 2023 was well above the national average. Yet the result results remain dismal. In the 2024 Nations Report Card, California was 43rd in fourth grade math, 39th in fourth grade reading, 36th in eighth grade math and 38th in eighth grade reading.

[Joe Getty]

Well, bet Gavin didn't like this. He's hoping that and he's right that nobody watches CNN weekend shows. But you know, whoever's those opponent, if he would end up being the nominee. They're going to grab this stuff.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh yeah, yeah. I hope it goes viral. I hope it gets retweeted and sent around a million zillion times. Yeah, the educational system is absolutely miserable. Go ahead, play the next chunk, Michael.

[Fareed Zakaria]

California's headline prosperity, generated in good part by a few industries like high tech, masks weaknesses underneath. Job creation has been sluggish. In 2025, California essentially failed to add any new jobs on net. Private industries outside government and government supported health care actually shed jobs. According to the center for Jobs in the Economy, the state is using public spending to paper over private sector stagnation.

[Joe Getty]

Wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

Correct. Yeah, significant net loss of jobs if you exclude government, which we discussed in government supported health care directly. Government support important. Let's talk about homelessness in 54, Michael.

[Fareed Zakaria]

Homelessness tells the same story in a more painful register. A 2024 audit revealed California had spent $24 billion on the problem over a five year span. Yet in 2024, California reached a record high in homelessness. Almost 200,000 homelessness did decline by about 3% from 2024 to 2025. But the state's expansive, expensive and elaborate homelessness aid complex has not proven to solve homelessness in any significant way.

[Joe Getty]

You don't have to be a genius to know that.

[Jack Armstrong]

Now there was a headline in the very left Sacramento B the other day. The Capital California audit of Sacramento homeless shelter costs showed no strong link to good outcomes. They couldn't find a link to it doing any damned good. Yet the money continues to flow.

[Joe Getty]

I'm not an accountant. I can look around. You spent millions of dollars. It looks worse than it used to be.

[Jack Armstrong]

So what is happening right, right now? The next section, Fareed, goes into a couple of minutes on la and it's, it's, it's longish. So I'm going to summarize some of it. You know What? Go ahead, do 56, Michael. And then we'll go from there.

[Fareed Zakaria]

Nowhere is this more vivid than Los Angeles, where Hollywood, the city's defining industry, is in slow motion collapse. The effects are being felt not by celebrity actors and influencers, but the carpenters, costumers, sound engineers, camera operators, editors, drivers, caterers, dry cleaners, prop houses and small businesses that once formed one of the world's great industrial clusters.

[Jack Armstrong]

And then he goes into the statistics about the number of shooting days in LA are just, they're down 85% shooting

[Joe Getty]

films, not shooting other people.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's a good point. Those days are up, but the shooting films days are down. All those gigantic Sound stages and movie sets and, and, and complexes are empty. They're just completely empty. And all of those working class, class people, many, many of whom I would guess lean left and vote for these policies of way over regulation, insanely high taxes, lawsuits for everything, they probably support those policies, which is tragic. Then in 58, he summarizes the LA situation.

[Fareed Zakaria]

Hollywood is still the symbol, the brand, the mythology, and it still houses the big studios that produce most of the world's greatest entertainment for almost a century. But thanks largely to high taxes, costs and regulations, the work has moved elsewhere, to Georgia, New Jersey, Toronto, London and Warsaw. Michael Linton, who ran Sony Entertainment, told me that the big studio lots look like ghost towns now with tens of acres of sound stages and recording studios. When nothing is happening, he said, Los Angeles is becoming a sunny version of Detroit. Consider the simple fact. According to Fortune, none of the 10 films nominated for Best Picture this year were primarily produced in Hollywood. Los Angeles still hosts the Oscars, but increasingly it does not actually make the movies being honored there.

[Joe Getty]

So I've toured the big movie lots just in the last couple of years that my kids doing the tourist thing. Universal and Warner Brothers. Yeah, they. That's interesting. So they, they look so. It's more of like. It's like going to an old west, old Western town that used to be, you know, during the gold rush or something like that, and all these buildings that used to be saloons and whorehouses or whatever, but they're no longer those things. They're. They're selling candy to kids as tourist stuff. So now the big movie lots are a tourist thing to go to to see where some of the best movies, you know, of the last hundred years were made. And you can Star wars and Jaws or you know what of all these great movies, but they're not doing it anymore. Where are the great movies made now, dad?

[Jack Armstrong]

Literally anywhere but California, son.

[Joe Getty]

That's interesting.

[Jack Armstrong]

Enjoy the tour. Finally, this.

[Fareed Zakaria]

For years, Democrats in California have governed without any real competition. The recent primary results suggest that even in deep blue territory, voters are restless. They're not becoming Republicans, but they are asking a reasonable question. Why does a state with so much money, talent and promise make life for ordinary people, people so hard?

[Joe Getty]

Good question.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's an excellent question. I don't know that I saw enough unrest to give me a lot of optimism in the recent primaries, but it registered on the Richter scale of this sucks the sucker scale.

[Joe Getty]

Well, as long as people have their identities, their entire identities tied into a political party.

[Jack Armstrong]

So true.

[Joe Getty]

It's different Than like I've never had my identity tied into a car brand.

[Jack Armstrong]

Really.

[Weston McKenna]

I don't know.

[Joe Getty]

Would be another good example, but just a lot of restaurants or something, you know, this place has got better chicken at a lower price. I don't care. I'm just going to go to the one I like the best and has the most bang for the buck. My identity's not tied up in it, apparently. Especially now we have our, we have our self worth tied up in being an R or a D so much. We just won't change.

[Jack Armstrong]

And remember, if you're a, if you're a D, one of the cornerstones of your identity is that conservatism is evil. Republicans are evil. Not wrong, not misguided, not where the party is policy wise right now. Doesn't suit me. No, they are eternally evil. And so, I mean, it's like the most extreme example of changing your identity you can imagine. It makes going trans look subtle.

[Joe Getty]

You're the political scientist, answer that question.

[Jack Armstrong]

One more, one more thought. I like how Fareed said they haven't become Republicans. I mean, right?

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Come on, let's be reasonable here.

[Joe Getty]

Disgusting. So we know what states that are too blue look like. We just described one. What are states that are too red? They're one party, but Republican. Is there, is there something bad that happens?

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, I think they can go a little far in like outlawing things that are harmlessly lefty dopey. Like, like what? Oh, gosh, I'd have to think about it for a while. I don't know, you know, passing resolutions to end gay marriage or something like that. Even though it'll never get by. Constitutionally, a little too fundamentalist. It's generally a subset of conservatism that is really feeling its oats. And there's no, there's no pushback. I, you know, I, if you want, I can work on it and come up with some examples for you.

[Joe Getty]

I should ask.

[Jack Armstrong]

Fairly rare, though. See, the problem is there's no such thing as a right wing bubble that's as bubbly as a left wing bubble for the reasons we've discussed many times.

[Joe Getty]

Right. I should ask a lefty that. Like that.

[Jack Armstrong]

They said abortion rights. Nobody can get an abortion anytime. Including, you know, victims of rape, incest or right, you know, terrible health, threat to the, the mother, that sort of thing.

[Joe Getty]

Other than that, wonder what it would be.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, they would invent stuff. And my proof is all of the talk about how if Trump is reelected, gay marriage will end, gays will be hunted, down in the streets, trans people, et cetera. Yeah, hey, hey, let me know when that starts, all right? It'd be be scary to watch. I want to watch.

[Joe Getty]

Hey, Gavin running for president. When Fareed Zakaria dedicates that much time to what a mess your state is. That ain't on cnn.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, amen to that. Well said, metal guy.

[Joe Getty]

We gotta check in on World cup soccer, which I actually watched some of over the weekend.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yes, Ed of the seat stuff. Usa.

[Joe Getty]

USA and a bunch of other stuff on the way. Stay here.

[Jack Armstrong]

Armstrong and Getty.

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[Karen Kilgariff]

hi, it's Karen and Georgia from My favorite Murder.

[Georgia Hardstark]

We cruised around LA in the Hyundai Ioniq 5 and dove into the fascinating life of actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Want the full story? Take a listen.

[My Favorite Murder Narrator]

She starts dating Howard Hughes and in fact she helps him design a faster plane. So she finds the fastest bird and the fastest fish and sketches out a drawing of what the two would look like as a plane. And that becomes the plane that we know today. And he calls her a genius.

[Georgia Hardstark]

Check out our new episode spotlighting groundbreaking innovators like Hedy and Lamar and Billie Jean King.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Presented by the Hyundai Ioniq 5.

[Joe Getty]

Goodbye.

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[Weston McKenna]

Weston McKenna into the middle. It's an end goal. It's the United States on the board. Less than seven minutes in

[Jack Armstrong]

for usa. The Americans are here in their home country.

[Weston McKenna]

Long Los Angeles Stadium. The United States 4, Paraguay 1.

[Joe Getty]

As you can hear from that crowd, I mean, I. I didn't have any idea because I'm not a soccer fan, but I didn't have any ideas. There going to be a ton of people there cheering like crazy for the United States, apparently.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yes, it was electric. I was watching on tv. I wish I'd been there in person, but oh, it was fantastic. And it was an arse whooping too. The American boys look extremely sharp. 40 over Paraguay.

[Joe Getty]

So we play Australia Friday in Seattle.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. Oh, I want to go to that. I'm not gonna. But I wanna.

[Joe Getty]

It's in Seattle.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

And then Thursday the 25th versus. They spelled Turkey T, U with a couple of dots above it. R, K, I, Y, E. I guess that's the international spelling of turkey.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's how turkey spells it.

[My Favorite Murder Narrator]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Well, good for them. I'm not. America runs the world. We spell it like we spell our Thanksgiving dinner.

[Sports Commentator 1]

Exactly.

[Jack Armstrong]

And we certainly run America. Where are you right now? Reading exactly in America. Damn it.

[Joe Getty]

Where are you playing freaking soccer.

[Jack Armstrong]

Anyway, I send some of those MMA guys over to whoever wrote that. Anyway, back to you. Oh, so I've. I'm Loving this meme online. It's a meme hashtag whatever of folks from all over the world visiting the US for the first time and to see World cup games and traveling around. And the difference between what they thought they would find and what they actually find in America is charming. And it's kind of funny. Here's a one guy says, dude, lmao. This is a gas station with three weeping faces. It's a Buc ee's. It's a Buc eeps. The king of all rest stops, which my.

[Joe Getty]

But I've never been to one.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, and gas pumps for miles. It's amazing. And then inside, a different guy. The European mind cannot comprehend how intoxicatingly good these things are. It's the beaver nugget nuggets at Bucky's. I don't even know what that is. Here's Freddy. Just had our first Waffle house experience at 1am Great food, great prices, friendly staff. 10 out of 10. We'll be coming back. And here is a. I think this guy's a Brit. I've just discovered barbecued ribs in America, Carolina style with a vinegar sauce. And frankly, every other meat is ruined for me now.

[Joe Getty]

That's awesome.

[Jack Armstrong]

Here's a different guy. Let's see. What flag is that? It might be France. We found another surreal place on our way. I know some people will say I'm too positive about everything I'm seeing, but this place was crazy. They had a shooting range in the store and instant exterior shot and two interior shots of a bass pro shop Outdoor World store to each other.

[Joe Getty]

But you never went to the United States until your soccer team was going to be there. I mean, like, I've never been to France, but if I ever go, it's not going to be because an NBA team I like is playing. I got other things I want to see in France rather than a basketball game.

[Weston McKenna]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Honestly, like, a lot of football fans go, they think, all right, that's an excuse to go. My. My favorite team is playing in London or whatever. I'm going to check it out. Having gotten there, I wouldn't want to spend all that time at a football game. Right. I can go to the 100 of those at home.

[Weston McKenna]

Anyway.

[Jack Armstrong]

The final one I like is this guy. Again, I'm not sure which flag. This is first time experiencing the flyover thing Americans do before big sporting events. And I gotta say, I've got chills. There's two giant bombers flying over the stadium. Spectacular. Welcome to our land. Enjoy yourself.

[Joe Getty]

Mind your P's and Q's. Those are bombers for a reason. All right, stand up.

[Weston McKenna]

Oh, wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

You turned it belligerent.

[Georgia Hardstark]

Armstrong and getty

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hi, it's Karen and Georgia from My Favorite Murder.

[Georgia Hardstark]

We cruised around LA in the Hyundai Ioniq 5 and dove into the fascinating life of actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Want the full story? Take a listen.

[My Favorite Murder Narrator]

She starts dating Howard Hughes and in fact she helps him design a faster plane. So she finds the fastest bird and the fastest fish and sketches out a drawing of what the two would look like as a plane. And that becomes the plane that we know today. And he calls her a genius.

[Georgia Hardstark]

Check out our new episode spotlighting groundbreaking innovators like Hedy and Lamar and Billie Jean King.

[Karen Kilgariff]

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[Joe Getty]

Goodbye.

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