I Have Big Boobs & Offend The Left

Summary

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Armstrong & Getty On Demand

Episode: "I Have Big Boobs & Offend The Left"
Date: January 27, 2026
Hosts: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty
Producer/Contributor: Michael, Katie Green
Podcast Network: iHeartPodcasts

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Episode Overview

This Armstrong & Getty episode dives into a variety of hot-button cultural and political issues, with pointed, humorous, and occasionally irreverent commentary. The main themes are the rise (or denial) of openly communist ideologies in mainstream American politics, ongoing sanctuary city controversies, Trump’s support among Hispanic voters, high-profile pop culture stunts (notably about Sydney Sweeney), the reality of new warfare technology, and a smattering of offbeat news and banter. True to form, Armstrong & Getty blend serious policy talk with comedic asides, keeping a rapid-fire, conversational tone.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Communists, Socialists & the American Left

• (03:27–04:56):
  • The hosts reflect on Bill Maher's comments about New York City councilman Zohran Mamdani, accurately describing him as a "straight up communist," despite his own or the media’s attempts to soften with labels like "democratic socialist."
  • Quote:

    “He’s a straight up communist. … The guy is communist. He’s been saying it out loud his whole life. He’s hired people who say it out loud. How are you pretending that’s okay?” — Joe Getty (04:08, 04:33)

• They lampoon liberals who deny the shift further left on the political spectrum, warning Democrats risk alienating voters by ignoring the reality.

2. Sanctuary Cities, Immigration, and the Law

• (05:37–13:13):
  • The hosts highlight Bill McGurn’s (Wall Street Journal) and Richard Lawson’s (Free Press) criticisms of sanctuary policies as both dangerous and legally dubious.
  • Getty cites federal law, questioning the legal basis for cities and states actively thwarting ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and protecting even criminals from deportation.
  • The conflicting Supreme Court rulings – local police are not required to assist ICE, but can’t actively impede – are discussed.
  • Quote:

    “Mayors and governors behind sanctuary policies are tearing apart the constitutional order. … Sanctuary jurisdictions are directly thwarting federal law.” — Joe Getty reading Lawson (07:12)

• The text line lights up with heated, critical messages accusing the show of defending "ICE thugs" and "President Chaos," prompting the team to consider if coordinated activism is behind the surge.

3. Trump, Hispanic Voters & Immigration Politics

• (09:52–11:18):
  • New polling: Trump’s disapproval among Hispanics has risen, but approval remains above 50%.
  • They ponder the complex dynamics—legally present, hardworking Hispanics frustrated by crime in immigrant communities, and distaste for the "woke left."
  • Quote:

    “Combine that with a lot of Hispanic people's just kind of generalized disgust with the woke left … Trump is the guy taking on the woke left.” — Joe Getty (11:42)

4. Online Activism & Outrage Swarms

• (13:27–15:23):
  • The discussion shifts to listeners’ angry texts about ICE and Trump, which Armstrong suspects come from organized activist campaigns, not their typical audience.
  • They recall similar, past outrage mobs (e.g., over chronic fatigue syndrome jokes).
  • Quote:

    “For chronically fatigued people, it was a very energetic campaign.” — Joe Getty (15:10)
    “My God, I’ve spent a lifetime learning this lesson … Don’t go too far.” — Joe Getty (15:51)

5. Sydney Sweeney’s ‘Controversy’ and Cultural Branding

• (16:12–16:39, 20:21):
  • The hosts briefly riff on actress Sydney Sweeney’s deliberate provocations and self-branding ("I have big boobs and offend the left"), laughing about public reactions and the economics of public image.
  • Quote:

    “I have big boobs and offend the left.” — Michael (16:15)
    "They're not bad boobs. I mean it's all, you know, it's quality." — Joe Getty (16:29)

6. Pop Culture & Marvel Franchises

• (21:43–22:36):
  • A lighthearted segment about new Marvel content (“Wonder Man”), its meta-take on Hollywood, and strong opinions on legacy characters (e.g., Captain America).
  • Quote:

    “Not because he’s black, because he’s a wuss. I like the old Captain America.” — Michael (22:40)

7. ICE, Protests, and Media Messages

• (26:34–30:27):
  • Analysis of media coverage of ICE-related shootings and protests, where national TV coverage is seen as inviting further escalation.
  • Quote:

    “Encouraging people or telling people you need to bring a gun because you might be shot by ICE officers.” — Michael (30:11)

8. Modern Warfare: ‘Discombobulators’ and Brain Scramblers

• (30:27–38:05):
  • A lengthy, entertaining digression into accusations that the U.S. used a mysterious "discombobulator" or sonic energy weapon in Venezuela, disabling electronics and incapacitating guards.
  • Trump’s penchant for revealing military secrets is both criticized and rationalized.
  • Memorable Exchange:

    “Trump is actually calling it the discombobulator… I’m not allowed to talk about it.” — Joe Getty (30:55)
    “I have a feeling that Trump confirming that… The Chinese are like, ‘Oh, yeah, they use the C32!’” — Joe Getty (35:03)

9. Warfare, Technology, and Movie Hype

• (36:48–38:05):
  • Considering how new tech might drive future warfare—from nano-drones to EMPs—and riffing on a new Christopher Nolan film ("Odyssey") advertising during football.

10. Randoms: The ‘Death’ of a Famous Albino Alligator

• (41:01–45:26):
  • The hosts get caught up in whether they actually saw a specific famous albino alligator in San Francisco, raising questions about memory and museum practices – laced with deadpan humor.
  • Quote:

    “Or they thought people will come in and look at it. They won’t know the difference. Good enough. Get us through the holiday season.” — Michael (45:26)

11. Remote Learning on Snow Days (NYC)

• (42:54–44:13):
  • A brief but pointed critique of Mayor Mamdani’s (NYC) move to swap standard “snow days” for remote learning, which parents and hosts find impractical and motivated by union/funding shenanigans.
  • Quote:

    “It must just be appeasing the teachers union … because they get full funding … whether they learned anything or not. That’s not part of the deal.” — Michael & Joe Getty (44:03)

12. Final Thoughts, Quips & Quotes

• (46:05–47:37):
  • Individual closing thoughts range from jokes about fear of heights and meta-discussions on public expectations to a hope for serious national discussions on immigration prompted by recent crises.
  • Quote:

    “Famously, in democracies, nothing happens till there’s a crisis. Is the fracas in Minneapolis the crisis it takes for us to talk seriously about our immigration laws? … Please.” — Joe Getty (47:27)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Left-Ward Political Shift:
  • “How are you pretending that’s okay?” — Joe Getty (04:33)
  • “If liberals deny it, like he’s just going through a goth phase, they’re going to lose more elections.” — Michael (04:27)
• Sanctuary Policy Critique:
  • “Sanctuary jurisdictions are directly thwarting federal law.” — Joe Getty, quoting R. Lawson (07:12)
• On Outrage Campaigns:
  • “For chronically fatigued people, it was a very energetic campaign.” — Joe Getty (15:10)
• On ICE & Immigration Politics:
  • “Don’t go too far.” — Joe Getty (15:55)
• On Media Messaging:
  • “That’s awful damn close to telling people, you better bring a gun, isn’t it?” — Michael (29:28)
• On Technology & Warfare:
  • “The brain is an electric organ.” — Joe Getty (33:26)
• On Public Image Stunts:
  • “I have big boobs and offend the left.” — Michael (16:15)

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Timestamps of Important Segments

• 03:27–04:56: Bill Maher/Communism & the Left
• 05:37–13:13: Sanctuary Cities, Federal Law & ICE
• 09:52–11:18: Trump’s Approval with Hispanic Voters
• 13:27–15:23: Outrage Activism & Listener Texts
• 16:12–16:39, 20:21: Sydney Sweeney’s Publicity Stunt
• 21:43–22:36: New Marvel Shows & Superhero Satire
• 26:34–30:27: ICE Protests, News Coverage & Escalation
• 30:27–38:05: Discombobulator Tech & Modern Warfare
• 42:54–44:13: NYC’s Remote Learning on Snow Days Debate
• 46:05–47:37: Final Thoughts, Immigration Discussion

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Tone, Language & Style

Armstrong & Getty’s style is brisk, witty, and irreverent, often blending earnest political critique with sarcasm, self-deprecation, and pop culture references. Their banter, while sometimes biting, avoids mean-spiritedness, opting instead for bemused incredulity about politics, culture, and the news cycle.

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For Listeners Who Missed the Episode

This episode delivers Armstrong & Getty’s signature mix of current events, cultural commentary, and comedic riffing. Discussions around leftist politics, sanctuary cities, and media-fueled outrage demonstrate their skepticism toward mainstream narratives and activist pressure campaigns, while lighter topics like pop culture scandals and technological speculation keep the mood lively.

If you’re curious about what’s really driving debates over immigration, why online mobs spring up, or what new weapons might decide future wars (with a healthy dose of comic irreverence), this episode delivers plenty to chew on—or laugh about.

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Transcript

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[Joe Getty]

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[Michael]

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[Joe Getty]

In his MRI machine.

[Michael]

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[Joe Getty]

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[Michael]

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[Joe Getty]

And so cold in New York City. The rent froze itself.

[Michael]

Good night, everybody. That's a pretty good joke. That's a pretty good joke. The crowd getting so excited about the communist mayor coming out, but that's a pretty good joke. The rent froze itself. Anyway, Bill Maher the other night talking about how is this a controversy whether or not Mamdani is a communist. This is Bill Maher on his HBO show. Democrats seem to be having this debate.

[Joe Getty]

Whether or not Mayor Mamdani is a.

[Michael]

Socialist or a democratic socialist.

[Joe Getty]

Let me settle it.

[Michael]

He's a straight up communist.

[Joe Getty]

How do I know this?

[Michael]

Well, I'm reading between the lines.

[Joe Getty]

When one of his major advisors says.

[Michael]

Elect more communists, it's fine. It's a belief system. He's allowed to believe it and people are allowed to vote for it.

[Joe Getty]

But if liberals deny it, like he's just going through a goth phase, they're.

[Michael]

Going to lose more elections. This is not a communist country. Yeah. And he had, you know, all the quotes from his housing director about the people are going to have to have a different relationship with property and all that different sort of stuff. He went through the whole thing, but yeah, he's absolutely right. The guy is communist. He's been saying it out loud his whole life. He's hired people who say it out loud. How are you pretending that's okay? Whatever.

[Joe Getty]

I was just going through the Newsweek account earlier in the show of how the Democratic socialists of America are trying to build bridges to the Chinese Communist Party. I mean, it's like in the minutes of their meeting, they have initiatives with names and they have the guy in charge of the committee and stuff like that openly. And yet people say, no, he's not a communist. He's a, he's a democratic socialist. He's good lord, I don't. How about the.

[Michael]

One of the leading lights of everything that is left, Bill Maher, at least used to be saying the debate over whether or not he's a Democrat or Democratic socialist. Here, I'll solve it for you. He's a communist.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, well, he's 100% right.

[Michael]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. So you were mentioning last hour that the trial that's just going, getting started in LA could be a super big pivotal one about social media and media addiction and children, that sort of thing, liability. One of the other topics that we've called for the Supreme Court to look at over and over again because we need the judiciary to weigh in, is the question of sanctuary cities. And finally, finally, I'm seeing some pretty significant mainstream people saying, hey, by the way, what about the whole concept of sanctuary cities? What are we doing here? And it's like, wow, thanks for coming to the party. We've, like cleaned up an hour ago. But anyway, Bill McGurn, who's a very smart guy, right in front of the Wal Street Journal. Sanctuary cities can be deadly. To reduce tension and violence, let local police departments cooperate with ice. Can we please have something like a reasonable adult conversation about that? And he sets the scene. With everything that's happened in Minneapolis, we all know we're all up to date on that. He says the simplest way to make encounters safer is for local authorities to cooperate with federal law enforcement. If ICE could count on this cooperation when its agent sought to arrest someone in Minnesota, the enforcement would be handled quietly and without incident. So true. But with so many blue cities, including Minneapolis and St. Paul, having adopted sanctuary policies, the rules of the game are changed. Blue state Pauls moralize about immigration while shirking responsibility for the signals they are sending. The main signal is for angry people to adjudicate immigration policy on the streets instead of in court or in Congress. That's a good point. It's a good point. There's a way to do it, a good way and a bad way, and then this in the free press. Sanctuary cities are built on shaky law. And this is written by Richard Lawson, who has an obvious point of view on this. But he says the mayors and governors behind sanctuary policies are tearing apart the constitutional order. By encouraging illegal migrants to enter the US and shielding them from deportation. Sanctuary jurisdictions are directly thwarting federal law. These policies should be struck down by the courts. And with the Justice Department's investigations into the efforts of Waltz and Fry to obstruct federal immigration policy, this appears to be underway. Defenders of sanctuary policies claim they are not valid or. I'm sorry, they are valid because they don't directly impede federal enforcement. Sanctuaries merely ban state or local authorities from cooperating with the feds. But that minimizes their actual obligations under federal law. Here it is. The US Code lays out strict rules for how illegal migrants must be dealt with. And the rules apply to state and city governments along with individuals. Anyone who knowingly or recklessly, quote, encourages or induces an alien to reside in the United States may be imprisoned or fined by federal authorities. Not encourages or induces them to cross the border, but to stay.

[Michael]

Yeah. I was unaware until the other day that there has been a Supreme Court ruling that the local guys don't have to help the feds. You're not allowed to get in the way, but you don't have to help them.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, yeah. I'm digging deeper into this. Supreme Court recently clarified. Here you go. That federal law is violated when a person provides, quote, assistance to a wrongdoer with the intent to further an offenses commission. It's also unlawful to knowingly act in support of illegal aliens residing in the US or even to conspire to help them remain here. How does that square with that decision that you're talking about?

[Michael]

Right. I agree. So how is. I'm not obligated to help you not run into. I'm aiding them staying here. Me not helping you is aiding them staying here.

[Joe Getty]

Obviously it is, but it's a sin of omission, not commission. Yeah, yeah. Let's see. The only valid legal advice on how illegal aliens should navigate. Yeah.

[Michael]

So here's an interesting polling thing that just came out. Trump approval among Hispanic voters.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, you know what? And then I want to get back to the. What we're talking about, but go ahead.

[Michael]

Because Trump's looking at the politics of this a lot. That's probably why he made the shift he made in the last 48 hours. So there's two headlines to this. This is a Rasmussen poll. The disapprove among Hispanics for Trump has gone up 20 points in a month or 28 points in a month. That's a lot the disapprove. But overall, it's still approve, 53 to 45. It's just that this approve was very low before. Still approval, though. Even after all this, he's still just barely above water with Hispanics. That's kind of interesting.

[Joe Getty]

That's why Trump has got to fire Stephen Miller, who would look very comfortable in an SS uniform. Just saying doesn't make him a Nazi. I just think it would fit nicely and appoint me because my advice would be, look, stick to the righteous deportations, avoid anything that looks excessive or brutal to the nice folks who are just working hard, let's work with Congress and get them to have a vetting procedure, blah, blah, blah. Just don't go overboard and lose the support we got from Hispanic people.

[Michael]

But so I'm guessing it's like, you know, among All Democrats, like 90, 10 against Trump on all this sort of stuff, but for Hispanics it's like roughly 50. 50. Is that because you got a lot of people who are Hispanic who are here legally and hard working and in their neighborhoods there's lots of gang bangers and bad people that have come into this country and they wish they were gone.

[Joe Getty]

Right.

[Michael]

That's just my guess.

[Joe Getty]

Combine that with a lot of Hispanic people's just kind of generalized disgust with the woke left.

[Michael]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Who are just absolutely abhorrent to them and Trump is the guy taking on the woke left. So some of that support may be a little grudging at this point, but it's still there. Oh. So anyway, this guy who's writing about the sanctuary city thing gets to the like Minnesota ICE Watch, which that the, the dead good woman was part of, that encourages creative tactics to disrupt ICE operation. I mean, they go in, there's quite a long list of the things they do to actively interfere with ice, which is a crime. Similar obstructionist strategies have been adopted in Chicago, New York and Seattle. The ACLU is involved with it. And if the government officials are promoting those groups and tactics, then they are actively violating the law. So just his concluding paragraph. For too long, the debate over sanctuary jurisdictions has been thrown off by the red herring of local authority to set law enforcement priorities. Lost in the trees of a debate on our federal system of dual local and national governments, we have missed the forest that has sprung up. A network of crypto immigration schemes run by local jurisdictions in violation of the Constitution and at odds with the express will of Congress. It is time for these policies to be challenged and struck down. You're going to have to have some really, really smart federal prosecutors and a really well run Department of Justice prosecuting that because I think I see what he's driving at, but it's a tough nut to crack.

[Michael]

So on this topic, I bring this up just because of an interesting story to tell you about it. We got this text, the administration and of course MAGA wackos defending another murder is disgusting. Ice, our President Chaos's private army of thugs. Worst Administration and president, our lives. And you guys defend this crap all the time. The reason I read this text is one, we've gotten a fair number. I don't know how I'm defending this crap. I wish it was much less chaotic, but we got quite a few texts along those lines. And I just wonder if that all of a sudden. All of a sudden, yeah. I just wonder if that's some sort of organized because it just doesn't seem like we would have that many listeners that feel that way that you would just have turned us off a long time ago. And it reminds me of we used to run up, I think the trans thing did this for a while. But the biggest one was years ago. What was the weird ailment I used to mock all the time? Chronic fatigue syndrome. Yes, I think it was that one. And I would make jokes about lazy people and all the different sort of stuff and we would get a hundred texts, emails, and back when we took phone calls, phone calls, all of a sudden from people threatening lawsuits and saying they have science and all these different. How angry they were. They're going to boycott our advertisers. And so it was clearly they had some sort of organization where if somebody heard something negative said about chronic fatigue syndrome, it's a, you know, to the ramparts.

[Joe Getty]

All hands on deck.

[Michael]

We need to go after this radio show to make sure they're too scared to say anything negative. And I wonder if this is some sort of organized thing there because I can't believe we got enough listeners that just today, all of a sudden people are coming out anti ice to the extent they are.

[Joe Getty]

I'd like to point out that for chronically fatigued people, it was a very energetic campaign.

[Michael]

What's the deal here? How did you all get up and do this, huh?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I woke them up.

[Michael]

You're not so tired.

[Joe Getty]

We hired energetic people to do it for us. No, it's absolutely activist groups. Absolutely. I mean, I called for hearing Kristi Noem getting rid of what's his name, crew cut, cuz he's way over the top. And Stephen Miller is so completely out of control. Trump's gotta stop listening to him. He's all gas pedal and no brakes. And that's how you lose the support of the American people. And screw it. It's like anything else in the world.

[Michael]

My God, I've spent a lifetime learning this lesson.

[Joe Getty]

Don't go too far. So yeah, as I've been ranting and raving about that on a conservative radio show. Yeah, that's right. We're defending the jackbooted fascists of the worst president. Blah blah blah. Nice. Sleep well, little bot. Sleep well.

[Michael]

Another controversy for Sydney Sweeney. On purpose?

[Joe Getty]

No, there's not.

[Michael]

Is that going to be her brand? I do the obviously transparently on purpose controversial things. But anyway, I have big boobs and offend the left.

[Joe Getty]

It's not a bad act.

[Michael]

No. Probably pays well.

[Joe Getty]

They're not bad boobs. I mean it's all, you know, it's quality.

[Michael]

Judges agree with that comment. We got more on the way. Stay here.

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Unveiled a crawling robot hand reminiscent of thing from the Addams family. It's capable of single handedly, pun intended, picking up objects and even unscrewing a bottle cap. All thanks to fingers that bend both ways. It's not designed to scare people, researchers assure us, but to help them get things out of tight spaces. I guess like when the remote falls behind the couch.

[Michael]

It looks pretty creepy if you haven't seen it. It. If you remember the Adams family, it does look like that. More or less.

[Joe Getty]

A robotic disembodied hand crawling around? Is that creepy?

[Michael]

Well, it's robotic so it doesn't look like a human hand, but it's. It would look like a kind of a robot spider. It's kind of creepy looking. I don't. I can't quite figure out what would you would use it for, but whatevs. So remember Sydney Sweeney, the racist gene promoter?

[Joe Getty]

Oh my lord. Incorrect. America's sweetheart. That whole dumb story accusation?

[Michael]

Yes, that was one of your dumber stories. Is this gonna be the only thing she can do to stay in the news? So she climbed the Hollywood sign there in Los Angeles and hung a bunch of bras from it and. Cause she's got a new bra line out because she's got big boobs and she's young and hot. And then she's being charged with some sort of trespassing for touching the sign or whatever, which got her in the news. So everybody's mentioning it today. With the point being you mentioned that she's got a bra, blah, blah, blah. Is she just gonna be one of those people, though, or it's always some stunt? I find that tiring. She seems nice enough, but I find that whole thing just dumb and tiring.

[Joe Getty]

I wonder if the LA County Sheriff's Department has a department for, you know, just where you set up fake crimes.

[Michael]

I'll bet there is.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. We need the star of our movie to get knocked down because it's a movie about a man who's had enough crime. So we'll be having him knocked down at the corner of 5th and, you know, La Cienega. Yeah.

[Michael]

Speaking of movies and TV shows, there's a new Marvel thing out starts tonight. I'm gonna watch with my son. I'm kind of excited about it. Called Wonder Man. Part of the Marvel Universe.

[Joe Getty]

Has Wonder Woman got a sex change? No. Oh, my God. Wonder Woman is transgender. There's your headline.

[Michael]

We can't have anything, can we? I. I don't need.

[Joe Getty]

No, sorry.

[Michael]

I don't need a new superhero, but I might need this.

[Joe Getty]

Wonder Woman got a schwance.

[Michael]

I don't need a superhero movie or a superhero, but I might need this if it's well done. It's a sort of meta view of Hollywood mocking the whole superhero trend that has been going on in Hollywood for a long time in this struggling Hollywood actor who ends up in the middle of it and being cast as Wonder man and just the kind of behind the scenes trials and tribulations. And if well done, it could be very, very good mocking that whole thing. So I look forward to it. It's like eight episodes. It's, you know, one of those things.

[Joe Getty]

There have been a handful of movies mocking the movie business that are very entertaining.

[Michael]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Michael]

There is a new Marvel movie coming out my son's very excited about the Avengers are Back. And what's best about it is the old Captain America is back. Not that new Captain America Cheeto guy I don't like. Not because he's black, because he's a wuss. I like the old Captain America. And he's going to be back And Robert Downey Jr. Is going to be the bad guy. Somehow they're bringing him back in it anyway.

[Joe Getty]

Oh no. Yeah Shifting alliances.

[Michael]

If you say Cheeto Guy Cheatham Cheetah.

[Joe Getty]

Cheetah. Cheetah.

[Michael]

What's his name? Guy anyway. Oscar award winning. I don't like him.

[Joe Getty]

An adult. I don't know.

[Michael]

He's not a good Captain America. Weak, Weak.

[Jack Armstrong]

Armstrong and Getty.

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[Joe Getty]

Well, you know, we're doing a big investigation. I want to see the investigation. I'm going to be watching over it. I want a very honorable and honest investigation. I have to see it myself.

[Michael]

Yeah, that's a much better tone than what his DHS secretary struck right after the killing.

[Joe Getty]

So yeah, yeah, I saw a quote from some, a former DHS guy who said, look, when anything like this happens, you don't pin yourself to a conclusion right away because then you've got multiple problems when the conclusion goes somewhere else. That's why you give the look. We've got to let the investigation take place. We're not going to prejudge, blah, blah, blah. Not only is it the right thing to do, it's just strategically the smart thing to do.

[Michael]

God, I'm watching.

[Joe Getty]

As opposed to trying to get ahead of the narrative on Twitter or whatever the hell the priority was.

[Michael]

I'm watching the video from last night of them attacking that hotel where they think the ICE officers are and everything like that. That's insane. The fact that that's tolerated and seen as well. You can understand why they're so upset that you can't have that. You can't have cops fighting in the streets trying to stop people from getting in and murdering officers who were, you know, sent there to do a job.

[Joe Getty]

Right.

[Michael]

That's crazy.

[Joe Getty]

Blue collar Americans, by the way. Well, and that is why, you know, I've used the word strategic. About 30 times. That is why you avoid doing stupid stuff that gives away the moral high ground. Because thanks to the dead nurse, who is just an idiot, like anybody who's confronting, you know, law enforcement doesn't deserve to be dead. But. Come on. But so now he gets shot. Kristi Noem comes out with her idiotic statement, the rest of it. And so now you say, well, these people are smashing up a hotel room and threatening ice. You've allowed the narrative to take hold that, well, they're evildoers and fascists. So of course people are smashing the hotel. You lose the moral high ground.

[Michael]

Oh, yeah. And.

[Joe Getty]

And.

[Michael]

And even if the shooting ends up being completely unjustified and these guys are charged and everything like that, you still can't have people trying to break into a hotel and kill ICE agents.

[Joe Getty]

Well, Right, right.

[Michael]

So how about this? This was from ABC News last night. This is one of their top reporters on the street. I don't like the way he approached.

[Joe Getty]

This story, especially after Alex Preddy's shooting. More demonstrators could potentially bring their own weapons under the belief they prepared to defend themselves from federal agents who could shoot them.

[Katie Green]

It is a very dangerous recipe.

[Joe Getty]

People are scared, but they're also resolute that they have to fight back.

[Michael]

That's awful damn close to telling people, you better bring a gun, isn't it?

[Joe Getty]

Wow. I. I couldn't tell with the edit of that. Was he quoting somebody or. No, no, no. He was just saying.

[Michael]

He was just saying a lot more people are. Whatever his name is, one of your altar.

[Joe Getty]

But he was like an ABC News.

[Michael]

Yeah, yeah. It was George Stephanopoulos going to the. Going to a reporter on the street, Trevor Alt, and saying, we'll play it again.

[Joe Getty]

Especially after Alex Preddy's shooting. More demonstrators could potentially bring their own weapons under the belief they have to be prepared to defend themselves from federal.

[Katie Green]

Agents who could shoot them. It is a very dangerous recipe.

[Michael]

Encouraging people or telling people you need to bring a gun because you might be shot by ICE officers.

[Joe Getty]

Maybe I like imagination, but it had never occurred to me that, well, this will cause a lot more people to bring guns until that dude just suggested it was a good idea. Yeah.

[Michael]

Wow.

[Joe Getty]

Beautiful. Beautiful. Well, those are conventional weapons, and certainly they're deadly enough. But there's a little more information coming out about the discombobulator, which sounds like something out of a Bullwinkle cartoon, but. But that is the mystery weapon that was crucial to the Venezuelan raid or the American raid on Venezuela to snatch up Maduro.

[Michael]

The thing that You've referred to as the brain scrambler.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, well, Trump, I guess. Did he use the word. Yeah, yeah. Trump is actually calling it the discombobulator. So Trump, you remember, mentioned that this mysterious weapon, quote, made the equipment not work, the discombobulator. I'm not allowed to talk about it during that interview in the Oval Office. I'd love to. Before he confirmed its use, quote, they never got their rockets off. They had Russian and Chinese rockets. They never got one off. We came, they pressed buttons, Nothing worked. They were all set for us. Now, interestingly, Trump commented on the weapon when asked about reports this month that the Biden administration had purchased a pulsed energy device that may have caused the Havana Syndrome to study it. And that revelation followed the on the ground accounts from Venezuela describing how Maduro's gunmen were brought to their knees. Bleeding through the nose in vomiting blood.

[Michael]

Yeah. How do you like that?

[Joe Getty]

Simultaneously bleeding through your nose and vomiting blood. I'll bet you don't like it much. Simultaneously. And this is another quote from one of Maduro's security team. Suddenly, all our radar systems shut down without any explanation. The next thing we saw were drones, a lot of drones, flying over our positions. We didn't know how to react, saying, then the helicopters appeared, about 8. At one point, they launched something. I don't know how to describe it. It was like a very intense sound wave. Suddenly I felt like my head was exploding from the inside. Oh. We all started bleeding from the nose. Some were vomiting blood. We fell to the ground unable to move. We couldn't even stand up after. Sonic weapon or whatever it was.

[Michael]

So we got two different things going on. We got the weapon, I think, or maybe we don't. But I assume the brain is different than disabling a piece of equipment.

[Joe Getty]

But anyway, we got massive electronic pulses.

[Michael]

Yeah. So we got something that kept the. The equipment from firing off the way it's supposed to. And then something scrambled people's brains. This all makes sense because I, from the day this story broke, thought, how the hell. How could you possibly get in there and snatch them in their bedroom without more of a fighter before they got out of there or whatever? Well, now it makes sense.

[Joe Getty]

Well, right. And here's one of the roughly three things I retained from my neuropsychology class in college. Jack, what does the brain run on? Diesel fuel?

[Michael]

Coal?

[Joe Getty]

Is that what you think? No, it's electricity. The brain is an electric organ. Has to do with the sodium atoms, molecules.

[Michael]

I like the sound of the electric organ.

[Joe Getty]

Well, otherwise you gotta have Like a pump organ. Right. Which actually has a cool old timey sound. But anyway, so it's possible. Yeah. Massive electronic pulses that would, you know, mess up equipment and mess up your brain.

[Michael]

So is Trump not supposed to say this stuff or was it a good thing to say to scare off China and Russia and let them know we got this thing.

[Joe Getty]

Thing.

[Michael]

Did Russia and China both react to grabbing Maduro with. How in the hell did they get in there without us firing our equipment, firing a single shot? I mean, were they like, holy crap.

[Joe Getty]

Or were they like. They must have used the C32. So it works as well as we thought it would. Okay. You know, it's. Trump has occasionally. Because he's braggadocious. Everybody knows him about that.

[Michael]

I've noticed that.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I remember when, what was it with Israel, I think during the first term that he gave away some intelligence that shocked the Israelis and caused all sorts of problems. So he does tend to have loose lips on that stuff. At the same time, you got Maduro's guys running around saying exactly what happened in the effects, that, you know, what the effects of this weapon were. So I think Trump's saying, yeah, we got a discombobulator, probably just. There it is. Oh, there it is.

[Michael]

Oh, my nose. I'm bleeding from there.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, I'm falling on my knees. Whoa, whoa.

[Katie Green]

Oh.

[Joe Getty]

So it makes you stupid. I get it, Michael. Yeah. I have a feeling that the Trump confirming that. Oh, my God, all of their defenses were inoperable and they were all puking blood at once. The Chinese are like, oh, yeah, they use the C32. What is modern warfare going to look like?

[Michael]

I don't know.

[Joe Getty]

I mean, it's certainly not tanks. Increasingly, it's not humans. The drones, it makes it too hard for troops to move. So you got the drones, but then you got electromagnetic pulses knocking all the drones out of the air. So chucking rocks at each other. Well, no, the drones would zap you before you could chuck a good sized rock. Robot armies, well insulated, clashing, blah, blah, Chinese wolves, something.

[Michael]

Do we or China or Russia, whoever, send, you know, those little tiny nano drones at a population and they're going in the lungs and killing everybody. And then that country just has to raise the white flag. Okay. Use some weapon we had never even thought of and clearly we have no defense for. So we give up. Oh, have you seen, speaking of warfare and everything like that, have you seen the ads for the new movie Odyssey? No, by. What's his name, one of your great directors, somebody. Katie, can you look that up. Who directed Odyssey? So they're running it during all the football games. You know, the classic story, you know, the Greek, Greek mythology, Odyssey, that includes the. The Trojan horse and all that sort of stuff. Oh, looks like an amazing movie. Oh, really looks freaking incredible.

[Katie Green]

Christopher Nolan.

[Michael]

Yes, Christopher Nolan movie and really looks awesome. I'm gonna be all over that. They're advertising the hell out of it during the football games.

[Joe Getty]

So I find myself thinking, you know, back to your fascinating and troubling question about warfare. We're either going to be in a situation where it's a constant effort to get that little edge and then obliterate the enemy like the moment we get it, or is it possible. I'm probably a SAP to even say this, but is it possible we'll just be so technically adapt technologically adept rather that that there's no point in having a war. You can't get any of your weapons systems up and going.

[Michael]

It becomes a mutual destruction sort of thing. Like with nuclear weapons the last 80 years.

[Joe Getty]

Or is it a back to the future thing where you got to go with diesel powered, you know, whatever, anti aircraft guns systems because EMPs aren't going to knock those out. Unless it screws up the spark plugs. Diesel doesn't have spark plugs, do they?

[Michael]

Nobody knows.

[Joe Getty]

I'm not a mechanic, I'm a wordsmith. Nobody ask me about gerunds. Not some spark plugs.

[Michael]

Yeah, who knows? I hope we're on the. I hope we're on the cooler, newer, hipper equipment. End of it though.

[Joe Getty]

Well, judging by the performance of the discombobulator, we're doing okay.

[Michael]

What we pulled off in Venezuela was pretty, pretty impressive.

[Joe Getty]

All right. Do the Russians and Chinese have it too? They just haven't used it yet.

[Michael]

Right. We will finish strong.

[Jack Armstrong]

Next Armstrong and Gettysburg.

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[Michael]

A memorial service was held in San Francisco for Claude, a beloved albino alligator.

[Joe Getty]

At the California Academy of Sciences that recently died.

[Katie Green]

Died.

[Michael]

But his memory will live on in my gorgeous new boots. That's funny. We saw Claude just a couple of weeks ago. Must have been right before he died. No, we saw him. We saw him on December 23.

[Joe Getty]

We were sitting in marshmallows, throwing them into the enclosure and he started coughing in a weird way. So he walked away.

[Michael]

But we were in San Francisco for my son's birthday and we. So we went to the museum or the. Whatever it is, and huge albino. I mean, it's a heck of a thing to see. It's a ginormous and white and just creepy looking. Yes, Katie?

[Joe Getty]

Oh, no, I was just looking.

[Katie Green]

You might have seen the ghost of Claude. He died December 2nd.

[Michael]

One that I know I've seen. Did they have another one? I don't know.

[Joe Getty]

I'm looking that up.

[Michael]

I mean, I didn't. I don't imagine that I saw an albino.

[Joe Getty]

Somebody's mistaking fantasies for reality.

[Michael]

Giant albino.

[Joe Getty]

Was he next to the pink rabbit? The giant pink rabbit.

[Michael]

I do a lot of street meth. I don't even get the good stuff. I just get. Okay, that's that joke. I want another joke. I'm in the going through the motions part of the show. Is this a joke from Jimmy Kimmel about the super bowl match up for Super Bowl 60? Is said it's New England versus Seattle. The last time the Patriots were in the Super bowl was 2019, back when their coach at the time, Bill Belichick's girlfriend, was in kindergarten. That's just factually true though, right?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, almost. Well, close anyway. She's probably in middle school or high school. The point remains, she's a very young.

[Michael]

Woman and we're supposed to be angry about it or something, right? Did we do the snow Day one? Because I'm kind of interested in that, actually, politically.

[Joe Getty]

Dear Mayor Zoran Mamdani announced in a.

[Michael]

Post on social media over the weekend that the city's public schools will have a remote learning day rather than a.

[Joe Getty]

Traditional decimating his poll numbers among likely voters ages 5 to 12.

[Michael]

Yeah, the new York Post had a story on this. It was one of your lazy journalist pieces where they just pick out some tweets that agree with them and build a story around it and act like everybody thinks that way. But I'll bet it was fairly representative. It was parents who say Zoom didn't work during the pandemic. It's not going to work on a one off day now. And quotes from people. And I'm sure this was true as they were all trying to figure out how to log in and what the new password is, and they haven't downloaded the newest version of Zoom. And just all the different things that we all ran into with the stupid, stupid idea of zoom schooling.

[Joe Getty]

In fact, given the fact that when you had plenty of time to work out the kinks, see how it was going adjust your sales, etc. It turned out to be useless.

[Michael]

Yep.

[Joe Getty]

The idea that you're all gonna rush to it for a one off, I mean that's beyond absurd. It's utterly dishonest.

[Michael]

Honest.

[Joe Getty]

It must just be appeasing the teachers union in the. The funding because they get full funding.

[Michael]

Yeah, I'd be shocked if it wasn't that. So the school was open, so they got the full funding. Pure poop pupil that logged in. Whether they learned anything or not. Hey, that's, that's, that's not part of the deal.

[Joe Getty]

That's not the business we're in here at the teachers union. Who gives a crap.

[Michael]

How much more time we got? Michael?

[Joe Getty]

We got about a minute and final thoughts.

[Michael]

One minute.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I'm looking, thinking, you know what we might ought to do during the One More Thing podcast. I've got more information on the first presidential home. Before there was a White House in Philadelphia, Washington and Adams lived in. In the house, the presidential house. And during the Biden administration, it was turned into a Washington was evil, Slavery was evil. Up with black people memorial as opposed to a historical site. And how crazy it was. I mean it takes some describing. Maybe we'll do that. I don't know.

[Michael]

I am confused by this albino alligator story because I am positive we went to that museum and saw an albino alligator. A giant one. Did they get a new one after the other one died? Are your dates wrong?

[Joe Getty]

No. Was the one you saw alive?

[Michael]

It'd be hard to tell. They. They're perfectly still. Maybe it'd been dead for some time.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, they couldn't tell because it was already kind of white and ghostly looking.

[Michael]

Or they thought people will come in and look at it. They won't know the difference. Good enough. Get us through the holiday season. That's what they thought. Check your clock.

[Joe Getty]

It's time to stop Jack and Joe. They've gotta go. And if they don't, you can. They'll be back tomorrow.

[Michael]

Unless I'm conflating that with the aquarium thingy we went to in New Orleans that might have had an albino alligator. I'll have to look that up. I need to answer this question because I want to make sure I'm not completely losing my mind. Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.

[Joe Getty]

Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew to wrap things up for the day. There he is, pressing the buttons in the control room, leading us up off Michelangelo. Final thought. I'm gonna have to Watch that Netflix skyscraper story on my 77 inch TV. But I may I have something terrible, fear of heights. So I'm gonna put a safety harness around my waist, tie it to the couch.

[Michael]

You watch some of it and tell me you're not like yelling at the television like my son and I were or something.

[Joe Getty]

I'm gonna watch something that entertains me and doesn't terrify me, but teach their own. Katie Green, our esteemed news woman, has a final thought. Katie, along the same lines as Michael.

[Katie Green]

I. I don't have the big 80.

[Joe Getty]

Or 77 inch screen, but I am.

[Michael]

Going to attempt to watch that today. Yeah, it's funny. My hands get sweaty when we talk about it.

[Chelsea Handler]

I have a feeling that's gonna happen to me.

[Michael]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Hey, I get lightheaded. It's seriously unpleasant. Jack, a final thought for us.

[Michael]

I came across this on Twitter, but I thought it was pretty good. I love when people try to manipulate me by saying they expect better from me. I will not be better. That is a good one. I. You do better, you could be better. No, I expect better from you. No, no, no, this is good.

[Joe Getty]

Your hopes are going to be. Dad, take it from me, I would know. Trust me. My final thought just flitted out of my head, which is. Oh, there it is. Famously, in democracies, nothing happens till there's a crisis. Is the fracas in Minneapolis the crisis it takes for us to talk seriously about our immigration laws, about our enforcement systems, sanctuary cities, for goodness sakes, and the rest of it and sort it out, please.

[Michael]

No, it's not. Any other questions?

[Joe Getty]

Thank you.

[Michael]

Armstrong and Getty wrapping up. Another grueling four hour workday.

[Joe Getty]

Imagine my disappointment. So many people. Thanks. A little time go to Armstrong and getty.com. drop us a note. If there's something you want to weigh in with, send it.

[Michael]

Mailbagarmstrongygetti.com so many albino alligators.

[Joe Getty]

See you tomorrow.

[Michael]

God bless America.

[Joe Getty]

Armstrong and Yeti.

[Michael]

Their behavior has been nothing short of thuggish. Yeah, I don't think you go through that type of experience until an emerge change. I expected more. The pathetic spectacle. You're locking up my toothpaste. What in the hell heck are we talking about?

[Joe Getty]

So let's go out with a bang. God is a Republican. Take two. God is a Republic. Take three. Michael, how much tape do we have?

[Michael]

Probably ought to check on that high note. Thank you all very much.

[Katie Green]

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