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Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

Jack Armstrong (2:52)

Armstrong and Getty.

Joe Getty (2:54)

And now here's Armstrong and get. A judge gave the man who attempted to assassinate Brett Kavanaugh only eight years in prison after he began identifying as a woman. You don't say. Said the Menendez sisters. That's a good joke.

Jack Armstrong (3:24)

That is a good joke. That's a well crafted joke.

Joe Getty (3:27)

Yeah.

Jack Armstrong (3:28)

I've got a question about UPFs ultra processed foods. Joe has been trying to scare us about for quite some and I'm sure it's true that whenever you're eating something that's got a list of 50 ingredients, you can't have no idea what they are, that it's probably not good for you. And, and lately they've been saying that, like, this is really, really bad for us. Right. Like this could be. Yeah, this could be a lot of what all our problems are. Obesity, health, this and food addiction. But I often think in addition to all the ingredients, just stuff that's like sealed in a bag or whatever is probably that. But like the kettle chips, like the healthier potato chips that you get. Look at the ingredients, and it's just potatoes, oil, salt, that's the only thing on there. Does that mean it isn't ultra processed or is it just a slightly better version of ultra pressed because it's still in one of those bags, sealed up, that the food would stay fresh for the next 150 years, which doesn't do those.

Joe Getty (4:27)

The more, you know, basic down to earth potato chips. Do they have that long shelf life? I don't know.

Jack Armstrong (4:31)

I don't know that either. Actually.

Joe Getty (4:33)

It's. It's hell. But better for you than the ones that have a zillion ingredients, chemicals and stuff. Yeah, I actually bought some chips.

Jack Armstrong (4:40)

I was watching The Tucker Carlson 911 documentary that I assume is going to end up. It was the Jews. I haven't finished it yet, but Tucker was doing an endorsement just like we do on the radio for some healthy chip. And I actually talked me into it. I bought some and they come in the mail this week and I'll try them out. I'm all for trying to get away from that ultra processed stuff. Eat way, way here. I've been looking at my bread.

Joe Getty (5:02)

It's hard to buy bread.

Jack Armstrong (5:04)

Bread's a tough one because my experience has been if you buy bread that doesn't have a million ingredients, it's fresh for like a day. Either got to eat that day and make your sandwich or forget about it.

Joe Getty (5:15)

I eat homemade whole grain bread because I'm better than you. And yeah, we keep it in the freezer because we have to. You, you, you bring it out and let it thaw on the countertop if you're going to walk the dog or something like that, or pop it in the toaster for a minute, minute and a half just to get the, you know, frostiness off of it. But yeah, you have to at least refrigerate it and probably freeze it.

Jack Armstrong (5:36)

I don't know if I can plan that far ahead on my bread.

Joe Getty (5:39)

A minute.

Jack Armstrong (5:40)

Don't you just.

Joe Getty (5:41)

No, no, no. A minute.

Jack Armstrong (5:43)

It takes, it only takes a minute to thaw out your bread.

Joe Getty (5:46)

Yeah. In a toaster, sure.

Jack Armstrong (5:47)

Oh, you toast.

Joe Getty (5:48)

Minute and a half.

Jack Armstrong (5:49)

Okay.

Joe Getty (5:49)

Yes.

Jack Armstrong (5:50)

Michael, don't you just eat a white wonder bread and that's all you eat? That's generally what I've been eating, but I'm trying to get away from the ultra processed food. And bread's a tough one. I love sandwiches, man.

Joe Getty (6:00)

Think you'll be happy with it? So a little featurette here might have to go into the next segment, but that's fine. Politico was out with a report, a private polling memo run by the dnc. I think one of their big consultant groups are pushing their candidates to go on the offensive on crime ahead of the 2026 midterms because that's one of their weakest electoral issues. And that is. I'm not sure exactly how they're going to go about that, but it was shared exclusively with Politico. The Battleground District survey from global strategy group nonprofit Blah blah blah offers a bleak assessment of Democrats. Starting point. 89% of the likely voters surveyed want their Congress member to take steps to keep them safe. But only 38% trust Democrats over Republicans with that task. Voters also reported preferring Republicans to Democrats with preventing and reducing crime and cracking down on violent crime gaps that grew among swing voters. But the voters swung toward Democrats in all four categories after hearing messaging acknowledging crime is a problem and showing steps the party has taken to increase safety. Specifically, pollsters cited cracking down on gun trafficking and strengthening firearm background checks. And if you emphasize that the Democrats are doing that, the poll numbers change a lot. Plus, the persuasion efforts include criticisms of GOP cuts to gun violence prevention, funding, the Trump administration's attempts to roll back firearm regulations and Republicans ties to pro gun groups. So the whole gun control thing is about to be one of the loudest issues in America again. But when they, you, when you give them just a little talking to, there was a double digit swing among voters. So they're going to be hammering on that apparently and sending around the usual spate of speakers calling for gun control, which will never and has never squared with the Second Amendment. But they don't talk about that because they don't care. They just want to win the next election.

Jack Armstrong (8:13)

Are you moving on from polling? Because I have an interesting poll thing.

Joe Getty (8:17)

Yeah, go ahead.

Jack Armstrong (8:19)

This was on CNN yesterday. This is just about Trump's approval rating in general. This was on CNN. Again, they're pointing out that he's hanging around the mid-40s. And I'll just quote the analyst they had on CNN as they had the numbers up on the board. Trump is basically doing what the American people thought that he was going to do. Indeed, if you look at the numbers, Trump is basically the steadiest favorability rating at this point in the presidency of any president on record. And it's basically where he was a year ago, good enough to get him reelected at the time. All the news, almost all of it negative about Trump. He's just hung around 43, 44% steadier than any president that has been recorded through the first nine months. And he was at this number when he got reelected. So that's pretty amazing. I don't know.

Joe Getty (9:17)

It is amazing.

Jack Armstrong (9:18)

I don't know if that's just because our dials are stuck regardless of who it is or it's something special about Trump or whatever.

Joe Getty (9:24)

But yeah, yeah, it's, it's interesting nonetheless. So speaking of crime, Jason Riley, brilliant columnist for the Wall Street Journal who wrote a great book, he just wrote another thing, a column about public housing and how miserable how the progressives insisted that the poor black neighborhoods be torn down in the 50s and 60s especially. Literally torn down. Everybody, given the what the government said their place was worth and then all put in giant public housing projects. That was the progressive solution to the black poverty problem. And I'd really like to get into this at length, but the one point he makes that was, is incredibly powerful is, yeah, they gave him the minimum a judge would let them, the government give them for their properties. They missed out on every penny of future appreciation of the value of those properties.

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Right.

Joe Getty (10:19)

They lost their businesses. There was a great system of upward mobility within those black neighborhoods. There's like totally stunted upward mobility in the progressive designed public housing projects and the public financing thing. Anyway, that's a discussion for another day, but he wrote a couple of weeks ago and I held onto it because it's so good. He's talking about policing and how more policing means less crime and black people proportionately have way bigger benefits than any other people in America from more policing. Not the opposite. It's, it's, it's great for them. And, and he talks about Brandon Johnson saying that we can't arrest our way out of poverty and we need more affordable housing, not more police. And, and then Jason gets into my favorite part of this. It, that point of view is held widely on the left that crime can mostly be blamed on poverty. You hear it all the time in blue states. In this respect, it's the mayor's views that are out of touch. Not only are most poor people not criminals, but the most impoverished communities in the US are not the most violent. Further, violent crime was significantly lower in earlier eras when poor Americans were materially much worse off than they are today. If anything, more evidence points to crime driving poverty than the other way around. And this is the part that, my God, I wish the Republican party was any good at communicating to people. Merchants are more likely to abandon lawless neighborhoods. How many times have we seen that recently? All the damn time. Where operating costs are higher, taking employment opportunities and economic activity with them. As businesses leave, the tax base shrinks, property values decline and public services suffer. In the 40s and 50s, the homicide rate for black males fell by double digits and black incomes rose faster than than white incomes. This is the 40s and 50s. Safer neighborhoods are conducive to upward mobility and police help keep neighborhoods safe. And then my favorite part is this. We are not going to eliminate crime or poverty anytime soon. But there are better and worse ways to address both. Family makeup and education play important roles in reducing social pathology. Cultural habits and attitudes matter. Single parent households were a minority of all black households for most of the 20th century. The welfare state expansion of the 60s and 70s which subsidized irresponsible self destructive behavior, led to social retrogressions that some black communities still haven't recovered from more than 50 years later.

Jack Armstrong (12:56)

Yeah, well, I have very strong opinions about this whole thing. I think the breakdown of the American family is the cause of tons of our problems and nobody wants to talk about it because they feel like it'd be mean or they're participating themselves or.

Joe Getty (13:19)

They'Re blaming the victim or something.

Jack Armstrong (13:20)

Yeah, and nobody wants to talk about it. Hey, households that stay together do way better. Kids do better, parents do better, everybody does better, neighborhood does better. It's just better all the way around. But that's not a popular thing to talk about.

Joe Getty (13:33)

And then one of the last things Jason writes on this topic, he quotes our hero, the great thinker Thomas Sowell, another black man, for what it's worth. But Sowell remarked, when you take away stable families, decent schools and safe streets, there's nothing left. Stable families, decent schools and safe streets. How are the Democrats doing on those three things? I'll let you answer for yourself. It's good talk about. People would listen to Jason Riley. Yeah. You know, and one final note. We don't really have time for this, but a study has come out that there's, there's a, an old saying among lefties that zip code is destiny. And it turns out that's complete bunk. It all has to do with family education and safety.

Jack Armstrong (14:28)

What does that mean? Zip code is destiny. That, like where you were born determines your life.

Joe Getty (14:33)

Yeah, exactly.

Jack Armstrong (14:34)

Well, that's nuts.

Joe Getty (14:35)

It's a zip code is destiny and that's the major source of inequality in the US the rich stay rich, the poor stay poor, and you've got to get the, the poor kids, you know, bust them to other neighborhoods and other schools and stuff like that. And, and some of that may be somewhat effective sometimes. But again, to your point, nobody wants to talk about the family.

Jack Armstrong (14:59)

Yeah, that's a depressing topic, but very, very true. And there's gazillions of stats to back it all up, by the way.

Joe Getty (15:06)

Yeah, it's funny. I don't find it depressing because there's a solution. It's when I don't see a solution that I get depressed. Now, getting people to actually talk about that solution in an honest way is going to be a hell of a battle. But the solution is there.

Jack Armstrong (15:21)

Any thoughts that? Text line 415295 KFTC ARMSTRONG and GETTY.

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Joe Getty (19:37)

The letdown tonight after King James highly anticipated announcement turned out to be an ad for a collaboration with Hennessy Cognac. James teased the reveal yesterday, sending ticket prices for the Los Angeles Lakers final regular season home game skyrocketing as fans speculated he could announce his retirement.

Jack Armstrong (19:57)

Yeah, kind of a silly little gimmick, but I was doing a little sports reading yesterday with the idea that this really signals that LeBron James is no longer the leader of the LA Lakers. It's Luka Doncic's team now. LeBron is a role player because that is not the sort of thing you do as the season is starting in just a few days. Pretend you're going to retire, have everybody on your team and the coach and management thinking, what? This is your last year and. And it turns out you're promoting something to make you richer. That's not cool.

Joe Getty (20:33)

He must really just enjoy the challenge of building businesses. I mean, like you're, you're LeBron's James and your, your George's Clooney that don't need any more money.

Jack Armstrong (20:44)

Yeah.

Joe Getty (20:45)

Or never will. Yeah. But they just enjoy the challenge of it.

Jack Armstrong (20:48)

That's fine. But you can't on the eve of a new season. Hint you're retiring just for fun, to promote a product with your teammates. Like what? That's not cool.

Joe Getty (21:01)

Unless you don't care anymore.

Jack Armstrong (21:03)

Unless you don't care. You know, that's why it's, it's not his team anymore. That, that's not his main focus anymore, I guess, is the point. Different LA story. This is wild. This is breaking news. They've arrested a guy and Charged him with starting the deadly Palisades fire in California.

Joe Getty (21:21)

Oh wow.

Jack Armstrong (21:22)

Which you know, all along it's been talked about it was lightning or whatever started all these fires. A man was arrested Tuesday, killed 12 people. Destroyed a huge swath of some of the most expensive property and nicest Property in America. 29 year old idiot of Florida, Florida man was charged with destruction property by means of fire. A felony that carries a up to a 20 year prison sentence. Should be more than that. Near his home in Florida, he was arrested. Scheduled to make his first appearance in court this coming Wednesday. It'll be interesting to hear what they actually have on him and why they think he did.

Joe Getty (21:57)

Yeah.

Jack Armstrong (21:59)

The Palisades fire was began on January 7 last year. Burned 23,000 acres, which is absolutely amazing.

Joe Getty (22:10)

Well, in all the death that's surely 20 years.

Jack Armstrong (22:13)

No, he's, he's got to be more.

Joe Getty (22:14)

Put away forever or put him on the rack or something. Quartered.

Jack Armstrong (22:19)

I'll put him on the rack. That seems like a good idea.

Hakeem Jeffries (or related political figure) (22:21)

Yeah.

Jack Armstrong (22:22)

How much time have I got, Michael?

Joe Getty (22:23)

At about a minute 30.

Jack Armstrong (22:25)

So yesterday, the other day, where am I? I'm at like the target or something like that. Beautiful sunny day, a Camaro pulls in, windows down, AC DC back in black blasting out the windows.

Joe Getty (22:41)

Oh yeah.

Jack Armstrong (22:42)

And I told my teenage sons that exact thing has been happening since 1981. A beautiful spring day Camaro with its windows down, blasting back in black from AC dc.

Joe Getty (22:54)

Correct.

Jack Armstrong (22:55)

That's wild that that was happening when I was their age and it's still happening today.

Joe Getty (23:00)

The hairstyle may have changed slightly or the length of the person's socks. Other than that, everything's the same.

Jack Armstrong (23:06)

Everything's exactly the same. You're doing it for the same reason, you're enjoying it the same way with the same male hormones and, and wants and needs flowing through your brain.

Joe Getty (23:17)

And that's, you know, I'm not big on nostalgia at all, but I have memories tied to when that album came out and the people I was hanging out with and the baseball team I played for and how we would have beer soaked poker games and just listen to that, that album. It's just good times.

Jack Armstrong (23:34)

You're not big on nostalgia? You don't like looking back fondly on things?

Joe Getty (23:38)

Oh, I, I do. I just, I tend not too much, probably too little. In the great, in the words of the great Neil Peart, I let the past go too fast.

Jack Armstrong (23:47)

Yeah, I don't want to revel in today, which is kind of sucky.

Joe Getty (23:52)

I don't know. I try to make days less sucky and like, like goodish.

Jack Armstrong (23:59)

We got, we got, we got more we gotta get to, so stay here.

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Jack Armstrong (28:14)

As you know, of two years ago, October 7th. The the horror that Hamas unleashed on Israel. And for some people it was a moment to restate their allegiance to Hamas, particularly like the young college crowd across the country with a number of fairly big demonstrations. A little frustrating, highly annoying. You come off as crazy people in many cases. You're about to hear one right now. So there's this guy named Nate Friedman, young Jewish man, by the way, but he's got a popular YouTube channel where he interviews some of these idiots and exposes them for their idiocy. He comes across, I believe this was at the New York protest. New York had a pretty damn big Hamas support protest yesterday, which is troubling. Anyway, this particular guy was flying some sort of gays for Hamas flag or.

Joe Getty (29:17)

Something when Nate trans or. Oh, that was his. His flag, yeah. Is that the one that's kind of pink and blue and brown?

Jack Armstrong (29:25)

I must admit I don't keep up on that sort of thing, but Nate Friedman talked to the Well, I guess it's a she because he says he's a trans. Anyway, he talked to the person. So is this the. This is the trans flag.

Hakeem Jeffries (or related political figure) (29:37)

This is the Palestinian flag mixed with the trans.

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Jack Armstrong (29:42)

Who say that trans people would be killed in Palestine?

Hakeem Jeffries (or related political figure) (29:45)

I mean, I don't know about that, but I know that I'm standing here today. At least 50% of the Gazan government needs to be trans women. Like Muhammad herself was in fact a trans lesbian. Muhammad was a woman? Yeah. Islam is a trans idea. It's a trans religion. Mohammed herself was a proud tribute. Trans lesbian.

Joe Getty (30:09)

In Iran, the morality police and also.

Hakeem Jeffries (or related political figure) (30:11)

In Gaza, they kill trans people. Do you think that that's not true or. I mean, I think they're secretly Jews if they do that, because no Muslim would actually do that. Like Islam is a gay religion.

Joe Getty (30:28)

They asked Muslims in Gaza what you.

Jack Armstrong (30:30)

Would do with trans people.

Joe Getty (30:31)

They say, we don't have that here.

Jack Armstrong (30:32)

We kill those people.

Hakeem Jeffries (or related political figure) (30:34)

I mean, I don't know. But that's why we need to protest harder that we need at least 50% of the Palestinian government to be trans women.

Jack Armstrong (30:43)

How do we.

Joe Getty (30:45)

So, you know, how many people does.

Jack Armstrong (30:49)

That person represent in terms of their intelligence, knowledge of the subject, etc. I don't know. I think a lot larger than I'd be comfortable with. I mean, but that guy, that guy shouldn't be involved in anything.

Joe Getty (31:06)

Anything at all. Yeah. How do you feed yourself? How do you get through the day being that good nuts and ignorant? You know, there are more sophisticated versions of that. I would like to ask, you know, a less loony young queer or like trans activist about the whole, you know, Islam is unbelievably intolerant and by the way, is in fundamentalist Islamic countries. They utterly reject the idea of the rights of women. I mean, completely reject them. Doesn't that bother you? I'm sure they'd come out with some evasive answer to that, that their professors taught them. That is just because of the colonialism that they suffered under or something, I suppose. Right? I mean, the ability of human beings to ignore what is clearly true, to cling to an ideology is amazing and terrifying.

Jack Armstrong (32:03)

If you got. Best case scenario with Gaza, it's still not going to be a friendly place for the LGBTQ community. Almost certainly no. And probably not much. For women's rights?

Joe Getty (32:19)

Certainly not. No.

Jack Armstrong (32:20)

I mean, they've. Last time they had an election, they voted for Hamas, for crying out loud. Anyway, this guy wants 50% of the new Gaza government to Be trans women, I mean.

Joe Getty (32:29)

And again I ask, what about trans men? What the hell is going on here?

Jack Armstrong (32:32)

What an odd request. Anyway, he goes on, how do we make that happen?

Hakeem Jeffries (or related political figure) (32:37)

I mean, we have to protest. We have to push, Put pressure on the Jews who control the world to make this happen. Like, we. They own everything. We have to make this.

Jack Armstrong (32:47)

Are you Jewish?

Hakeem Jeffries (or related political figure) (32:48)

No, I'm. I'm Italian and Muslim. Yeah.

Joe Getty (32:52)

So Jews own everything? Yeah.

Hakeem Jeffries (or related political figure) (32:56)

How do you think. How do you think that happened?

Joe Getty (32:58)

How did Jews start owning everything?

Hakeem Jeffries (or related political figure) (33:00)

I don't know. They use their dark magic, I guess. Like, I'm Jewish and I. I would.

Jack Armstrong (33:07)

Like to have some magic, but I.

Hakeem Jeffries (or related political figure) (33:09)

Don'T feel like I have any magic.

Jack Armstrong (33:10)

How do you think I can access this dark magic?

Hakeem Jeffries (or related political figure) (33:13)

I don't know if you're maybe using your magic on me right now.

Joe Getty (33:16)

No, I. If I am, it's the first time.

Jack Armstrong (33:18)

Ever hearing about magic.

Hakeem Jeffries (or related political figure) (33:19)

Because we. We used to have, like, the thing where you would tie a stone to the leg of a witch and dunk her in the water, and if she floated, she was a witch.

Joe Getty (33:27)

Should we do that with Jews?

Hakeem Jeffries (or related political figure) (33:29)

Yes.

Jack Armstrong (33:30)

Okay. Should we do that with Jews?

Hakeem Jeffries (or related political figure) (33:31)

Across the whole world, everywhere. And there's the other one where you, like, put the. The Bible on one scale and the Jew on the other, and if they're lighter than the Bible, they're a witch.

Joe Getty (33:43)

All right, so he's an interesting combination of. He could only exist in the 21st century, and his attitudes are from the 14th century. What is going on there?

Jack Armstrong (33:57)

Right, Right.

Joe Getty (34:00)

Dark magic in the Jews.

Jack Armstrong (34:02)

What?

Joe Getty (34:03)

Right.

Jack Armstrong (34:03)

There has never been a point in history, really, where they were going to put up with the whole trans thing. But you are in favor of drowning witches.

Joe Getty (34:13)

No, no, no, no, no. You don't understand, sir. And I realize you're sporting a little lipstick. You're a dude. Look, be a gay dude. Be an effeminate dude. You're a dude anyway, you understand when they taught you that at school, that was to point out how ludicrous it was. Stay with me. Now, if the person floated, they were a witch and they'd be put to death. What if they didn't float? They would drown and be dead. Does that not strike you as an odd judicial system? Now you go. Now you talk a bit seriously.

Jack Armstrong (34:50)

So this guy's a half a nut, maybe three quarters of another. He might be a full 92% nut, but what he says in this next clip, if a white, southern, drawled guy in a maga cap said it would be national news and caused Joe Biden to run for president. Listen to this.

Hakeem Jeffries (or related political figure) (35:11)

Should we just kill all the Jews, though? I think so.

Joe Getty (35:13)

Yeah.

Hakeem Jeffries (or related political figure) (35:14)

Yeah, we need to throw. Yeah, they are. Am I. I'm a Zionist. Don't talk to them. Well, we're on YouTube, too. Can I look up what you do on YouTube?

Joe Getty (35:25)

We're just having a conversation.

Hakeem Jeffries (or related political figure) (35:26)

I mean, not now. I'll do it later.

Joe Getty (35:28)

So, okay, so we should call Jews.

Hakeem Jeffries (or related political figure) (35:30)

How should we kill all the Jews? We should throw the Jew down the well so that my country at least can be free.

Jack Armstrong (35:36)

So what is your country?

Joe Getty (35:37)

Which is your country?

Hakeem Jeffries (or related political figure) (35:38)

Well, America. America's your country. But also Palestine.

Jack Armstrong (35:42)

But also Palestine, he says. Okay, that's enough of this idiot.

Joe Getty (35:44)

Well, not only would it be a white supremacist saying something horrific like that, it would be in the midst of a giant demonstration. Who agreed with him? That agreed with him.

Jack Armstrong (35:53)

Yeah. He just flat out said, we should kill all the Jews. And that doesn't make national news or whatever because we just dismiss them as. Well. They're college kids. They don't know anything. Or.

Joe Getty (36:01)

Or what. Why.

Jack Armstrong (36:02)

Why did Charlottesville. Google it if you don't remember it, why was Charlottesville enough to make Joe Biden run for president? When I saw the hate in their eyes, the venom when they are chanting, they will not replace us, I knew this country. I couldn't let this happen to my country. Why was that such a moment? A turning point in history for you? But all of these college numb nuts flatly saying, we need to kill all the Jews, just, well, what are you gonna do, young people? You know how they are.

Joe Getty (36:31)

You know, I'm flipping through the New York Times just looking for any coverage of any of the demonstrations in New York City calling for the death of Jews, in the death of Israel, and up with Islamic supremacism. I'm looking for it in vain. I'm not finding it.

Jack Armstrong (36:48)

In New York, the biggest Jewish population in the world outside of Israel.

Joe Getty (36:54)

Yeah, yeah. No, nothing.

Jack Armstrong (36:58)

Why aren't more Jewish people pressuring? The New York Times and CBS News say, hey, there are people on the street over there, like, right outside the window. You can see them from here. From Rockefeller center, you can see him. They want me to be dead. It seems like a news story.

Joe Getty (37:14)

Arab mediators believe Hamas could be open to partially disarming. That's like, one of the first headlines on the whole topic, but nothing on the demonstrations.

Jack Armstrong (37:26)

I think Israel should say back, well, we'll blow off your junk, just like we did with Hezbollah. We'll blow your junk off.

Joe Getty (37:32)

Right.

Jack Armstrong (37:33)

You Want your junk blown off?

Joe Getty (37:35)

Careful picking up your remote control. Yeah, wow. Okay. I just. It's frustrating.

Jack Armstrong (37:44)

So do you have any idea, like, if I could ask Hakeem Jeffries or some high level Democrat on the left, why was Charlottesville a turning point in history? But these numb nuts. Fine, what would he say?

Joe Getty (37:57)

Is he being honest in this scenario or is he being Hakeem Jeffries politician? Because I could give you both versions, but.

Jack Armstrong (38:05)

Well, both.

Joe Getty (38:06)

The honest version.

Jack Armstrong (38:08)

The honest one is pretty simple, I think.

Joe Getty (38:10)

Yeah, the honest version was Charlottesville was a handful of numb nuts, but it gave us a great opportunity to portray Trump supporters and Republicans in general as racist bigots and get them on their, their heels. So that was really, really useful for us. This one's not. A lot of these people are our allies, so, no, we're not gonna call them out. Were you and I follow up? So do you actually think Charlottesville was. Those half wits was like a significant movement? He'd say, oh, no, no, no, no, no. They're just super useful for us politically.

Jack Armstrong (38:43)

That'd be disappointer. That's a disappointing answer.

Joe Getty (38:46)

Well, wake up, grow up, grow up and wait. Or wake up first and grow up and understand. That's what politics is. These lion liars. It's like that J. Jones monster running for Attorney General in Virginia who openly espouses violence against Republicans. Cuz only when they suffer per personally and watch their children die in their arms will they be ready to change policy. This guy's serious about this and the Democratic Party is with him for Attorney General of Virginia. I don't know.

Jack Armstrong (39:18)

You don't want to grow up first, then wake up, wake up, then grow up.

Joe Getty (39:22)

Well, you'd hate to miss your formative years being asleep.

Jack Armstrong (39:26)

Wake up, grow. Do you take anything to sleep? Melatonin or anything like that? No.

Joe Getty (39:31)

No. Well, yes.

News Reporter (39:32)

Scotch.

Jack Armstrong (39:36)

Well, that's. That's a good. That's. That's a pretty accurate true answer, I guess. Yeah. Because. Well, yeah, that played a role in going to sleep at night. Definite.

Joe Getty (39:44)

Yeah, it does, absolutely. It doesn't do any good for your quality of your sleep.

Jack Armstrong (39:49)

Dismiss military. Oh, God, no. What?

Joe Getty (39:55)

Taking something for sleep. I didn't. I don't dismiss it. I just. I never haven't needed to.

Jack Armstrong (40:01)

Yeah, I think I take a tiny amount. Like a tiny amount. But I think. I really think I've just convinced myself that it plays a role. I'm not sure it doesn't.

Joe Getty (40:12)

It doesn't do any harm. Why not?

Jack Armstrong (40:15)

Yes, Katie, I've started I've actually had.

Joe Getty (40:17)

To start taking Unisom and it works like a charm for me.

Jack Armstrong (40:20)

I don't know that I thought that was a, a charity that helped hungry children. What, what is unisom?

Joe Getty (40:25)

It's just an over the counter sleep aid and I started actually taking it about five days ago and it's working wonderfully.

Jack Armstrong (40:33)

What's it got in it?

Joe Getty (40:36)

Sleep juice.

Jack Armstrong (40:37)

I don't know.

Joe Getty (40:39)

Yeah. Judy was taking her doctor our, our general care. What do you call it, the primary care doctor recommended a little Benadryl and she was doing that for a while and it worked great. Then it kind of stopped working. Wow. The classic your kid is, you know, overtired, needs to go to sleep. Here, take it. Or take a little sip of that.

Jack Armstrong (41:02)

Yeah.

Joe Getty (41:03)

It contains things that I can't pronounce, but it is non habit forming, which I was a big fan of.

Jack Armstrong (41:08)

Yeah. My only problem with that is there's a lot of things they've claimed throughout the years are non habit forming, but they absolutely are habit forming, whether physically or psychologically.

Joe Getty (41:20)

Luckily, alcohol is not one of those.

Jack Armstrong (41:23)

Yeah, well, like the melatonin thing, it's. It seems like reasonable that it would make sense that like if you took 3 milligrams and it made you drowsy, 6 milligrams would make you trials a year. And I was under that. I just was assuming that along. Then we got an email from a doctor a while back, said, no, no. It's a weird thing about like, if you cross a line, it does you more harm than good. It keeps you awake, you want to take a tiny amount. So that's when I started taking out. Take like one and a half milligrams or something, which is barely anything. And in my mind it's helping. I don't know if it does anything.

Joe Getty (41:56)

Yeah. You know, when I was a baby in Italy, the Italian parents, if the kid had had teething pain, they would dip their finger in their wine and the kid would like suck the wine off the finger. It's a tiny amount, but it helped as a painkiller. And the kid would be like, you know what, I'm turning in.

Jack Armstrong (42:16)

That's what Bill Cosby was doing to his dates. Was that sort of the sleep juice? That's, that's what you need? I need something with some sleep juice in it.

Joe Getty (42:25)

Yeah. Sleep ification came up.

News Reporter (42:29)

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Jack Armstrong (42:30)

Jacko weighing in one state, asleep and has been asleep for quite some time now. We will finish strong.

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Jack Armstrong (46:49)

I was just looking at our list of things we haven't played. We haven't listened to the elderly protesters singing this land is your land in Portland. I haven't heard this yet. Sounds.

Joe Getty (46:58)

Can we hear that?

Jack Armstrong (46:59)

That is.

Joe Getty (47:00)

What number is that?

Jack Armstrong (47:00)

12.

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Joe Getty (47:22)

All right.

Jack Armstrong (47:24)

So you know the worst thing that happened in America?

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Jack Armstrong (47:27)

It was a great thing that happened in America. Civil civil rights movement was fantastic. It was the right thing needed to happen. Good result. But the fact that it worked with the help of hippies has led everybody to believe that that's the answer to causing social change. It wasn't that. This is clearly something that needed to happen. You know, majority of people came around to what obviously, you know, fit in with our. The way we believe America ought to be. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It wasn't because of the songs or the chanting or the, or the sandals. It wasn't because of those things. Those, the beards. The beards. Those elements don't need to be present to cause social change.

Joe Getty (48:11)

I would argue the banjo was an impediment to social justice. Exactly.

Jack Armstrong (48:16)

Yes, exactly. We got civil rights despite the banjo. Not because of the banjo. That's what we need to learn.

Joe Getty (48:24)

I'm with Kristi Noem. Clips A62. Michael, come on, hit it. Come on. Speak truth to power. One of the things I've been dealing with all day here in Portland is a bunch of pansies that are elected into political office who won't make a decision to keep their citizens safe. This mayor is going to wait until somebody gets violently hurt or killed. He's going to have blood on his hands because he sat around and thought too long because he was too scared of the political ramifications of making a big decision to keep his city safe. That actually does sound pretty accurate.

Jack Armstrong (48:55)

Let's say this is an interesting man. I got a lot more on that. But Portland will still be what it is tomorrow. So I can talk about it then, I suppose. Final thought with.

Joe Getty (49:11)

Wow, that's where you.

Jack Armstrong (49:12)

Before that song makes. Oh, the entire show. Usually I am at attention, but that.

Joe Getty (49:17)

Song makes me floored.

Jack Armstrong (49:19)

Here's your host.

Joe Getty (49:19)

This is harassment.

Jack Armstrong (49:21)

This is your.

Joe Getty (49:22)

Don't go down to HR together.

Jack Armstrong (49:24)

Here's your host. For final thoughts, Joe Getty.

Joe Getty (49:26)

Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew to wrap up the show. How about Michelangelo, our technical director, leading us off? Michael. Well, Jack's comments just made me forget my final thoughts. All I know is it's Prime Day, and it was something about a Christmas list.

Jack Armstrong (49:38)

It's Prime Day.

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Yeah.

Jack Armstrong (49:40)

Today's Prime Day.

Joe Getty (49:41)

I don't know what that means.

Jack Armstrong (49:42)

I've seen it. Amazon Prime.

Joe Getty (49:43)

Yep.

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Yeah.

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All right. We make people pay for commercials.

Jack Armstrong (49:50)

Michael.

Joe Getty (49:51)

Katie Greener, esteemed newswoman, has a final thought. Katie, we used to call people pansies all the time when I was in.

Jack Armstrong (49:56)

High school, and I'm bringing it back.

Joe Getty (49:58)

That she just reminded me of how.

Jack Armstrong (49:59)

Great of a slam that is. Pansy's a pretty good term.

Joe Getty (50:02)

That's a great term. There are a lot of terms. I'm stealing Jack Slot. There are a lot of terms that we were told for years are racist or bigoted or impolite or rude or whatever we shouldn't use. And, you know, I tend to be a polite person in real life, but I'm calling it like it is. I don't care who I offend. Here on out. Brace yourselves. Jack, final thought.

Jack Armstrong (50:21)

I kind of did mine. It was a comment on my engorgement. Or back there.

Joe Getty (50:25)

Oh, Lord. For crying out loud, Michael, why do you have an off button for his microphone?

Jack Armstrong (50:31)

Armstrong wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.

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Jack Armstrong (50:48)

Yeah, that is cool. We I got an interesting thought about Portland. We'll talk about that tomorrow among other things. See you then. God Bless America.

Joe Getty (50:59)

Armstrong and Getty from pansies in Portland.

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Joe Getty (51:24)

I don't want to keep doing this. I'm gonna call it Armstrong and Getty.

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