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And now here's Armstrong and Getty.
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A friend of mine who's slightly overweight, to put it mildly, went to a drugstore in London and he was able to get one of the fat shots. I call it the fat shots, the jams that you lose weight. He knows exactly who I was talking about. He called, he said that was interesting. He said he was very concerned that I might use his name, I might slip. Now he doesn't have to worry. But he called me, he said, hey, strange thing happened. I just bought a drug. Same company, same plan, same everything. Everything was the same. In New York, $1,300. And in London, I'm paying $88. He said, what on now? He knew nothing. He's a very smart guy. He's a very rich guy. His big problem is he's seriously overweight. But I don't think the drug worked okay, to be honest with you, but makes him feel good anyway.
Joe Getty
That's like day three of Trump's story about his fat friend.
Ryan Seacrest
He so workshops his comedy routine, tries it in different audiences.
Joe Getty
I don't want to. I'm going to get into the foreign policy speech he gave yesterday. I don't want to get sidetracked by this whole drug prescription thing. It is so complicated though. I've listened to a number of podcasts where they got into the details and it's, it's so easily easy to be misled by a lot of statistics. So a lot of the. Now it sounds like they're his fat friend. Very fat, incredibly fat fat friend there was paying $1300 in New York and paid $80 in London. Wanted to know why. That's a perfectly reasonable question, like why am I paying so much in the United States and so cheap here when we developed in the U.S. reasonable question. But just in general. A lot of the stuff you hear about drugs, the statistics for costs, it's for the name brand, which practically none of us are actually getting. We're getting the generic. So it's the tiniest percentage of that. So it misleads the statistics. There's all kinds of things going on in that world that make it hard to nail down.
Ryan Seacrest
And the way money flows into and out of various entities from your insurance company to the pharmacies to the drug companies, to the pharmacy benefit managers. An unholy group of humans if there ever was one. Yet so complicated.
Joe Getty
I'm on eight drugs for the swooping cough right now, which is crazy. But like, so I went to the doctor on Saturday after spending time there, and I think I picked up four new drugs just like everybody else. When they go to the pharmacy, I have the slightest idea what the little screen was going to say they cost. No idea. I wasn't very worried about it because it probably wasn't going to be very much. So like, one of them was $0.03, one of them was a dollar five, one of them was 44 bucks, and then the other one was like four. And I just pressed okay and tapped my card and walked out the door.
Ryan Seacrest
And I don't have any. Can you imagine if groceries were like that? Let's see, this ham will be $175. This bread is 2 cents. This cheese will be $1.01. And you think, okay, right.
Joe Getty
And I don't have. Well, it's way more complicated than even that example because, like, somebody may have put that One that cost 8 cents my insurance company might have paid $500 for. And it got spread around everybody else that's insured by that company for some reason. I don't know, I don't have any idea what it actually cost the insurance company. And then what are, what are my options anyway? To not press? OK, I will not pay $44 for whatever that drug is. It should be much less than that.
Ryan Seacrest
And incur the wrath of the already surly pharmacy employee. No way.
Joe Getty
I feel bad for those people. The other day I got to the pharmacy. I've been there way too much lately. I get there and some old guy's walking my way and he says, he said something old timey. He said, it's like railroading me. It's train robbery or something like that. And I said, what's that? And he said, it's train robbery around here. That's what it is. Yeah. I just kind of said.
Ryan Seacrest
Like, the.
Joe Getty
Poor girl who's, you know, at pharmacy school has any role in it whatsoever. What's she supposed to do? I don't know. It's your insurance. I work for cvs. They, I don't know. What am I? What do you want? Such a mess. Okay, different topic than Trump's fat, fat friend.
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Who?
Joe Getty
People who know Trump and his friends are trying to figure out which fat friend that he's talking about. So Donald Trump gave like a 45 minute speech yesterday in Saudi Arabia. And this was Mark Halperin's write up of it today, in which he said Trump's Tuesday speech, which shockingly gets almost zero coverage in the American media, was one for the ages, with some observers not unreasonably calling it extraordinary and some supporters saying it was one of the best and most important addresses by a US President in many, many years. It warrants your time to watch it in full if you have not to understand Trump's unusual, distinctive worldview. Now, I'm going to read a little bit from you that will, you know, portray that worldview. But I also wonder since Trump is a very interesting guy who's primarily interested in economics and that sort of stuff, although he was pretty hardcore anti the Iraq war back in the day. Like how much of this speech did he sit down with speechwriters and explain to them what he wanted to communicate? Did JD Vance write most of this? And Trump is like, sure, fine, I don't care. Or what I don't, I don't actually know, but let me read some of it. Oh, and he's talking about the success of all the people in that room because he had people from Saudi Arabia and Qatar and you know those, those incredibly rich areas of the Middle east that we see with their gleaming buildings and more modern than anything we've got in the United States. It's crucial for the wider world to know this great transformation has not come from Western interventionists or flying people in beautiful planes giving you lectures on how to live and how to govern your own affairs. In the end, the so called nation builders wrecked far more nations than they built. And the interventionalists were intervening in societies they did not understand themselves. Know the gleaming marbles of Riyadh and Abu Dhabi were not created by the so called nation builders, neocons or liberal nonprofits like those who spent trillions and trillions of dollars failing to develop Baghdad and so many other cities. That's a good point.
Ryan Seacrest
Wow, this is very. JD Vance.
Joe Getty
That's what I thought.
Ryan Seacrest
Solidly reasoned so far.
Joe Getty
Decent point though. We poured trillion, I don't know about trillions, but lots of money into Baghdad. It's still everything it's ever been. Abu Dhabi and Riyadh, that was ground up from the inside anyway, back to.
Ryan Seacrest
Never mind the zillions of dollars spent in Afghanistan.
Joe Getty
Instead, the birth of a modern Middle east has been brought by the people of the region themselves. The people that are right here, the people that have lived here all their lives. Developing your own sovereign countries, pursuing your own unique visions and charting your own destinies in your own way. They told you how to do it, but they had no idea how to do it themselves. Peace, prosperity and progress ultimately came not from a radical rejection of your heritage, but rather from embracing your national traditions and embracing the same heritage that you love so dearly. You achieved a modern miracle, the Arabian way. No wonder people respect you so much. I thought that was really interesting.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, agreed. It's. It's really good outreach, too. I think it's savvy.
Joe Getty
The most gleaming modern looked like something from the Jetson cities in the world did come from those local societies. Whether you hate their culture or politics or the way they treat women or whatever, they were able to build these unbelievable cities. And we've tried so hard to turn Kabul and Baghdad and a whole bunch of other different places in the Middle east into God, you know, anything close to Cincinnati and we haven't come within a million miles.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, this gets a little more complicated, but, you know, the broad outlines of your point, I think, are true. It helps to have unlimited numbers of petrodollars. And the whole modern gleaming thing is partly because there wasn't anything there 20 years ago. So, yeah, it's. It's modern gleaming because what else would it be?
Joe Getty
Yeah, but I think. I think a certain amount of it has to do with taking off the restrictions of, here's the way we feel like you need to treat women, gay people, minorities, the disenfranchised, all this different sort stuff, all these ties that come with it, as opposed to Trump saying, hey, it's your society, it's your customs, it's your heritage, you know, you building it the way you want. And hey, look at your city.
Ryan Seacrest
And honestly, in spite of the lack of success with China doing this, I think there's probably a fair amount of, hey, let's get these guys up and involved in world economics and international diplomacy and have them intertwined with bunches of other countries and it'll drag them into the modern era much more effectively than browbeating them will, anyway.
Joe Getty
Well, there's zero. Are there any good examples of us trying to build from the ground up one of these, turn one of these sitters around, having it work? Certainly not in the Middle East.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, it depends, you know, how much involvement over what period of time you're talking about. And interestingly enough, there were some pretty good success stories in Africa, but those have gone completely to hell now. And you could argue that, well, that's because they didn't build up the infrastructure it's like we're watching the. We're doing a bit of a remodel on our house, and it's been super interesting to see how they dig the hole for the footing and then pour the foundation, all the rebar and the cinder blocks and stuff like that. And we've made the point many times that our system of government, our rights that we enjoy, our Constitution, are built on the concrete and rebar and cinder blocks of hundreds of years of English common law, Judeo, Christian principles, the rest of it. And then if you try to build, at the risk of belaboring the metaphor, if you try to build the house of that sort of thing on sand, it's not going to work. And so Trump is saying, y' all build your foundations the way you want and then let's do business.
Joe Getty
So you think J.D. vance had a hand in that whole speech?
Ryan Seacrest
Both hands.
Joe Getty
The. It was. It's completely. It's a complete rejection of George Bush's ideas. Yeah. Of nation building. And it's a rejection of Democratic presidents with their coming in there with, we'll give you money, but here's the way we think you should live.
Ryan Seacrest
Right.
Joe Getty
So complete rejection of that, too.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah. I'm still, for the record, I'm super uncomfortable with the fact that Qatar, for instance, is trying to buy influence in America. Hundreds of billions of dollars perverting our colleges, having them become just vipers, nests of Islamism, anti Israel rhetoric. The rest of it. They're huge supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist organization that would like Sharia law to conquer the entire earth. And they're not spending hundreds of billions of dollars backing that because they don't believe it or don't agree with it.
Joe Getty
But there aren't those separate things. We don't have to let them do that. We can let them build their big gleaming city. We don't have to let them, you know, influence our colleges.
Ryan Seacrest
Well, right.
Joe Getty
Yeah.
Ryan Seacrest
Well, right. Yeah. For instance, that's not going to happen. But more on that later. Yeah, well, the argument would be, well, we don't want to participate in enriching them, so they have even more finances to back terrorism. But, you know, if J.D. vance were to say to me, dude, that'll go away of its own, that's what I think on a chord. It's not a stupid argument. I'm not sure I agree with it, but it's. It's worth considering.
Joe Getty
They play. They. They beat. They more than play footsie with the terrorists. No doubt about. But I don't think MBS his goal in life is not to establish a Muslim caliphate.
Ryan Seacrest
No, I don't think so. No.
Joe Getty
He wants to be a rich prospect.
Ryan Seacrest
Not to be starving poor when the oil runs out.
Joe Getty
Yeah, exactly. Anyway, I thought that was damned interesting. And it got zero attention. Zero. No coverage whatsoever. And he talked quite a bit about becoming friends with Iran again and how we don't have to be enemies and all that. Different topic, different day as they scream toward getting a bond, a bomb. George Biden did not recognize George Clooney.
Ryan Seacrest
Breaking news, among other things, George Biden, Joe Biden.
Joe Getty
Let me read it again, take two. Joe Biden did not recognize George Clooney. What Breaking news among other things coming up. Stay tuned.
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Joe Getty
I want to talk about that later. Dumb movies. Not this is not a place for them, but I'm tired of dumb movies. By the way, breaking news, HBO Max Max is changing its name back to HBO Max.
Ryan Seacrest
This changes everything. All right, fine. Speaking of stupid stories, this was sent along by alert listener William. I think this has to do with the uk, but if you're a pilot, you may know this the world has 280,000 aviation GPS waypoints that have a code assigned to them as part of the navigation process. And apparently I think this is in the uk. Air traffic controllers are refusing to use potentially offensive route names and are forcing the regulator to rename them. These are random five letter codes that were assigned and now in the 21st century, the year 2025, some of them are seen as offensive. And the air traffic controllers just don't even want to say, this is so childish and stupid. Here are the five most offensive ones that need to be renamed. P I K E Y. Pikey. It's an offensive racial slur referring to Roma gypsies.
Joe Getty
All right.
Ryan Seacrest
So called Irish travelers. Others include Aknob ut I T I, which I guess is pronounced U titty and rat poo R A T P O. And also Cox P C O X.
Joe Getty
P E. I don't particularly like that name. That second one. Who is that?
Ryan Seacrest
How do you like rub me.
Joe Getty
As an activity or a name for a GPS thing?
Ryan Seacrest
No, no, no, let's stick with the topic here. These are waypoints. Navigation waypoints. Yeah. R U B M I. Pikey is going to be renamed Vaxma. Oh, that's. That's like forcing vaccines down our throats. P will now be far Joe. Okay, you seriously, you people got nothing more important to worry about. All the problems in the world, all the diseases, all the hunger, all everything. And this is your cause. Ah, right. Yeah.
Joe Getty
Somewhere in there is that whole narcissism of small differences thing or something.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah. Or the, the Princess and the Pea idea that. Look, look at me, how sensitive and enlightened I am. I'm bothered by old Cox pee every time. I never. Every time I try to fly through Britain somebody says Cox pee to me and I'm tired of it. It's obscene.
Joe Getty
We do need a world. We need a world war or a Great depression to get us out of this. Although we thought the like a worldwide pandemic might fix it. And it didn't. Nope. In certain some ways it was. Made it worse. Yeah.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah.
Joe Getty
Made things worse. That's disappointing.
Ryan Seacrest
On the other hand, you got medical science forging ahead. You need a kidney. You can't get one. Borrow one from your neighborhood pig. Pig kidneys making their way into human bodies. There's a pig borrow. Unfamiliar with them. Yes.
Joe Getty
Borrow one like you'll return it when you're done with it. And from your neighborhood pig, which is not exactly a thing. Depending on your neighbor.
Ryan Seacrest
I was just trying to be. I don't know. Lyrical.
Joe Getty
Anyway, yeah, but that is a major medical breakthrough and we'll have a little news on that among other things on the way. Stay here.
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Observing this ultrasound that is an ultrasound of a pig kidney inside. Tim, is there anything in there that makes it clear that it's a pig kidney?
Ryan Seacrest
No, exactly like a humanoid.
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And not only does it look like one eight weeks post operatively, it's acting like one.
Ryan Seacrest
The level of kidney function is as good as we would expect from a human kidney transplant. Holy cow. Nice job pig kidney.
Joe Getty
So kidneys is one of the big ones because why do your kidneys go south on you? It just happens sometimes high blood pressure.
Ryan Seacrest
Is is one major cause because liver.
Joe Getty
Is often a drinking and drugs thing.
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Right.
Joe Getty
But kidneys can just fail on you.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, there's some drugs you process through your kidneys, but I don't know much about it anyway.
Joe Getty
So you got two of those, you got one liver, you got two kidneys. Am I right so far? And then if you need a new kidney, somebody who has a. Is a match for you, you can have taken one of their kidneys because a person can get by on one kidney.
Ryan Seacrest
Right, right. But that's always been, you have no kidneys. That's a drag.
Joe Getty
Right. And then you got to find somebody with a kidney. And sometimes you're on the list and thinking, man, if I don't get a kidney soon, I'm going to be kidney less, which you can't be. And then you'll die. Nobody wants that. Yes. Katie, do you know something about kidneys?
Ryan Seacrest
Well, yeah. I have a kidney disease. And the transplant list for kidneys is the longest out of all of the organs.
Joe Getty
Do you still have both yours?
Ryan Seacrest
I do.
Joe Getty
They both work?
Ryan Seacrest
For the most part, yes.
Joe Getty
But if one family, there's.
Ryan Seacrest
Can there are cancers that affect the kidneys. There are all sorts of things that can hurt them. Yeah, yeah.
Joe Getty
How'd you ruin your kidneys? It's just a, like, genetic thing or.
Ryan Seacrest
It's a genetic thing. Gotcha.
Joe Getty
And then. But so we've been hearing about this our whole lives. And now if they could use pig kidneys, that would eliminate the whole problem, I assume.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah. Unless you're a pig. Then it causes a whole new set of problems. But the point remains, it's in advance. More of Dr. Sanjay Gupta's report.
Unknown
Now, there is one complication they're watching for very carefully. Something that is unique to xenotransplants and could have saved not only Tim, maybe all of us. If there is some sort of weird or strange virus in the pig and it gets into the human population through one of these transplants, might not only affect the patient, but people around the patient as well.
Ryan Seacrest
In all the studies that we're doing, we're not only monitoring the patient, but they're close contacts.
Joe Getty
You're right. These stories are always presented from the human being point of view and not from the pig's point of view, in which he would say, hey, I was using this.
Ryan Seacrest
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You show me where. I said this was cool. It is not cool, by the way. The idea of some horrendous pig virus spreading to humans. Dr. Fauci says what? He's probably doing experiments in North Korea right now at some leaky lab financing that good thing Biden pardoned him. Never forget one more nugget from this story.
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This is really the progress of several Nobel prize winning discoveries. Everything from crispr, which is gene editing technology, actually taking genes out of the pig genome, adding other genes in from humans into the pig genome, and they Also use cloning, they use ivf, they use transplant, immunology. These are just huge, huge developments in the world of medicine that have all sort of come together to make this work. But they basically make the pig genome compatible with humans. That's what they do.
Joe Getty
Two legs good, four legs bad. That's where you end up.
Ryan Seacrest
Fall in love with her cute little snout or hooves. Let me stroke your hooves, my love.
Joe Getty
Yeah, that'd be cool. If this becomes a thing of the past, having to worry about kidneys, do.
Ryan Seacrest
They get to vote? He's half human, half pig. Well, not exactly half, but. Katie, yes. Yeah. I do have to tell you, during that report, when they were giving the guy the ultrasound to show him the kidney, he rubbed his stomach and went, you can feel the little piggy right there.
Joe Getty
A little cringy.
Ryan Seacrest
That's very cringy.
Joe Getty
And do you. Every time you eat, like, bacon, do you kind of just, like, nod up to heaven a little bit? Kind of a salute?
Ryan Seacrest
Like a little toast for the homies? Or. Or do you, like, vomit it because you're, you know, you're rejected?
Joe Getty
Yeah. Cannibalism, right?
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, it's. Right. Pick a pickableism.
Joe Getty
Anyway, so will the doctor that puts your pig kidney in you have been the most qualified person they could get at ucla, or did they just fit the racial quotas that they wanted? This is going on at ucl. UCLA Medical School, one of the most, you know, prestigious medical schools in the entire world. They're clearly, clearly continuing to use race and admissions. I mean, there's just no getting around it whatsoever. And there's a lawsuit going on right now, and it's against the Asians because they just. There's too many Asian kids that are super smart and can qualify for the school, and not enough black kids, and they don't like that result. So what do you do? You discriminate by race. I mean, you. The lefties, you discriminate by race to try to fix the problem. Problem. Which is just nuts, right?
Ryan Seacrest
Right. UCLA Medical is unforgivably woke. A new story emerges every week.
Joe Getty
Lawsuit brought on behalf of students denied admissions since 2020. According to the complaint, UCLA will routinely admit black applicants with below average GPA and MCAT scores. In 2023, Asians were 41% of the total applicants and only 28% of the people that graduated. Black applicants made up 8% of the applicants, but 14% of the graduates.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah. So at much lower scores.
Joe Getty
Yeah, it's amazing. Some of them. Racial preferences have been outlawed in California. Since 1996, even in California, we voted that no making decisions based on race is racist. We ain't going to do that even in California. But of course, the enlightened universities find their way around it, right?
Ryan Seacrest
And here's an idea. Black America, we just keep, you know, growing school choice and all the other things that will actually improve education and educational outcomes for black kids so that every damn black man or woman who graduates from a medical school, everybody will know they're 100% qualified. Wouldn't and there will never be any whispers about, you know, diversity hires or DEI doctors or wouldn't that be great? And yet the progressives are the ones who prevent that.
Joe Getty
Justice Roberts wrote in the Students for Fair admissions case that racial preferences cannot be reconciled with the Constitution's equal protection clause and that a student must be traded based on his or her experience as an individual, not on the basis of race. Obvs would be my response as a non lawyer. Obvs. It's amazing how hard it is to kill off this kind of racism.
Ryan Seacrest
Well, they do it with the approval of their own consciences. They are utterly convinced that they are doing the right thing by pushing some people down to elevate others. It's the hubris of it has always amazed me. You think so highly of yourself, your judgments, your morals, that you can wield the awful, awful tool of racial discrimination to get the outcome that you say is appropriate. Sickening. You people sicken me. And. And God dang it, this is. And I almost said a very nasty thing. I'm glad I didn't. Part of me wishes I had anyway.
Joe Getty
You're conflicted on this.
Ryan Seacrest
I am. Thank you for summarizing. What really blanking pisses me off is that these same people are putting the band aid of. Look, they're not really qualified and we really didn't educate them at government schools, but let's go ahead and shove them into these upper tier colleges and medical schools or whatever and then pretend like they're qualified. You are making it impossible to actually reform schools for the little kids when they're young and idealistic and want to learn. I'm talking about your black kids and whatever kids of whatever age you're talking about you with your let's just go ahead and kowtow to the teachers unions, then elevate them artificially when they hit college. You are making it impossible to do the real work to improve these people's lives, you hypocritical self. Regarding bastards, I hate you. You want hate speech? There it is. I Hate you.
Joe Getty
So these are. These are kidneys, are actually taken just out of a regular pig. It's not one of those. They're growing a pig valve in a petri dish or something?
Ryan Seacrest
I don't actually know that. I mean, the guy mentioned the many, many incredible technologies that grow in. Go into getting a very different. I mean, it's not a typical. You can't like, go down to your local hog farm, steal a kidney and have it stuffed in you. These are incredibly advanced.
Joe Getty
Oh, so it's not just a regular run of the mill Orville the pig kidney.
Ryan Seacrest
No. Were you listening?
Joe Getty
I didn't understand. So they had to use the crispr and everything else to bring this kidney around.
Ryan Seacrest
There you go. Yep. Among other things.
Joe Getty
Yeah. And what is it with the pig? Why the pig? Why not the monkey, for instance?
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, the. The monkey, which is genetically very similar. Certainly. Apes are certainly several people.
Joe Getty
I know.
Ryan Seacrest
I fair point. I know that. I've heard this for years and years and years that pigs have a number of genetic similarities to us that make them compatible. I don't know why, but skin, I think is another one. And corkscrew tail. I'm not sure you're taking this seriously, but, yeah, for some reason that I'm sure a geneticist could explain, pigs are compatible with humans.
Joe Getty
There you go.
Ryan Seacrest
And. Delicious.
Joe Getty
I'll just take the word for it. Oh, cool. That's all good.
Ryan Seacrest
So speaking of hogs, David Hogg is a giant pain in the ass and he's causing real problems in the Democratic party and I'm enjoying it very much.
Joe Getty
No kidding. They. They so want to get rid of him, but they don't like the way it will look.
Ryan Seacrest
Have you heard the. Their new plot for how they're gonna get rid of them and how ridiculous it is? It's pretty funny, no? Okay, I'll bring that to you in a second.
Joe Getty
So that's coming up, among other things.
Unknown
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I'm doing that's different from before is I'm challenging the status quo in a direct way and head on. And that really scares people. But frankly, I think right now nobody should be comfortable when our country is in a moment of crisis. And I think that there is far too much comfortability across the board and we need to make sure that we are electing the best people possible and in our own party.
Ryan Seacrest
That's overconfident, self righteous prig. David Hogg, anti gun, radical, AOC style activist in the Democratic Party who got.
Joe Getty
Voted in as though. What is his, what is his title?
Ryan Seacrest
Vice Chair. And we'll be getting to that in a moment. He is the Vice Chairman of the dnc, the Democratic National Committee. He has said that he will primary anybody who doesn't come along with the radical young people's agenda. To which Hakeem Jeffries replies. The Vice Chair of the dnc, David Hogg, he said today, quote, too many leaders in the Democratic Party are asleep at the wheel. You're obviously a leader in the Democratic Party.
Unknown
Did he mention me by name?
He did not.
Ryan Seacrest
But you are leader. Okay. Are Democrats asleep at the wheel? Does he have a point and should he stay in his role?
Unknown
I think I've been very clear about my perspective on David Hogg and I'm going to defend every single member of the United States House of Representatives in the Democratic Caucus.
Joe Getty
Well, I'll tell you one thing. I think David Hogg understands that maybe the older crowd doesn't understand. He understands like AOC and Marjorie Taylor Greene understand if I can get on enough TV shows or enough Twitter followers, I Can raise money and do whatever.
Ryan Seacrest
The hell I want and everyone knows it. Hog feasting at the trough of Internet fame. Is that what you're saying?
Joe Getty
Yeah. And if he can raise money to, to his crowd saying, let's take on whichever Democratic member of Congress who's kind of like moderate ish, and he wants more of an AOC style person in there, he can raise money and do that, and nobody can stop him wallowing.
Ryan Seacrest
In the mud of media approval.
Joe Getty
I'm gonna be using his kidney someday.
Ryan Seacrest
So here's the deal. So he's pissed off all the old hands and leaders in the Democratic Party and they're sick of him and to get rid of him. So just three months ago he was elected to vice chair. Yeah, vice chair three months ago. Well, now they're saying, oh, there was a procedural flaw that made it harder for a woman to be elected. Yes, let's, let's hold another election. We've fixed that flaw. Now shall we vote again?
Joe Getty
Yeah. If you're not familiar with the name or it rings a bell, his backstory is he was one of the poor kids that was in the Parkland, Florida school when the shooter went in and killed so many people. One of the worst shootings in our nation's history. And he was a kid then. He rose to fame by coming out and being a very outspoken anti gun sort of person. And the left loved him. And then they did that thing that we always complain about, that if you were a victim of some sort of. First of all, if you're young and if you were a victim of something, we have to take every opinion you have as hallowed and obviously brilliant. And they did for so long that he got built up in a way that now they can't control him.
Ryan Seacrest
Right, right. And so, and this is the sort of hilarious, I guess, plausible denial that you see a fair amount in politics, they say, yeah, yeah, we had a procedural flaw that made it harder for a woman to be elected. So let's hold another vote and maybe, you know, we'll get somebody else. And it's absolutely transparent what they're doing. I mean, it's hilarious that they're even going through the charade. And yet it will work. They will have the vote and they'll heave this young man out on his ear.
Joe Getty
You think so?
Ryan Seacrest
And then he'll probably get a gig on MSNBC called, I don't know, Hogs Trough or, or something, and, and he'll go on his merry way. Yes.
Joe Getty
Wallowing in the headlines with David Hogg. That'll be the sound politics. I was just looking at all the sketches that have come out of the Diddy trial. We're gonna have an update on that in hour four. His former girlfriend is taking the stand again today. They're not allowing TVs in the OR cameras in the courtroom. I go back and forth on that all the time. This would be a pretty good TV show, but it probably distorts justice as we saw in the O.J. trial. Anyhow, I'm looking at some of the drawings apparently. I can't believe he actually did this. When she took the stand eight months pregnant. You know the videos out there of you beating the crap out of her and dragging her down the hallway by her hair. She's testifying to days long freak offs. I don't even know what that means. The human body has limits. The attention span.
Ryan Seacrest
Maybe yours does. Huh?
Joe Getty
Attention span has limits. I mean, you can only be interested even in sex for so long. I just, I don't even get what. A day's long. I don't know. I don't know what's happening there on either end.
Ryan Seacrest
Maybe it's like a three day golf trip. You don't play golf all day or a lot of it, but then you go off to dinner and you hang out and then you play some more golf.
Joe Getty
Anyway, we'll get some of her testimony from yesterday where she talked about it started off as like kind of weird. And I thought it was weird that he wanted me to have sex with somebody else. And then it turned into a job that she hated and she was just so afraid of him that she kept going. She does point out that she was 22 years old. He was about 40. 22 years old.
Ryan Seacrest
Living a billionaire lifestyle too. A lot.
Joe Getty
Anyway, one of the drawings yesterday is when she walked in the room. He did that. And I've never actually done this before. I'm going to do it right now for the first time. That heart hand signal that people do where they put their hands together and make a heart. Lord, he did that. A heart on his chest to her when she walked in. That's how much he apparently thinks he.
Ryan Seacrest
Can still manipulate her or was willing to try.
Joe Getty
Wow.
Ryan Seacrest
Maybe he knows his goose is cooked, so he thought, you know what? What the hell, give it a try. Wow.
Joe Getty
I don't know if the jury saw that. If I saw that as a juror, I'd be, ew. That is weird, dude.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah. Hey, hey, hey, hey. Don't be sending signals to witnesses. Yeah, I would not like that. As a geror.
Joe Getty
The argument that they're making, which is what you've said for several days now, is, yeah, domestic violence. There's a lot of domestic violence in the world. Unfortunately, you don't go to prison for the rest of your life for domestic violence. You can eventually, but, you know, sex that other people don't think is appropriate. Don't go to jail for the rest of your life for that either, if it's consensual, because he's being accused of all kinds of things that they got to prove that he was trafficking in a variety of things.
Ryan Seacrest
And I have a feeling much less. Excuse me, had to sneeze. Much less dramatic. Oh, no. Oh, my gosh. My allergies.
Joe Getty
Allergies all of a sudden.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah.
Joe Getty
You haven't got my whooping cough, have you?
Ryan Seacrest
I certainly hope not. What was I saying as a. Oh, much less, quote, unquote sexy. Experts are going to testify as to the transfer of money and the realities of sex trafficking, trafficking laws and stuff like that. And that's going to drive home the case. But next hour, Trump is not going to take that plane from Qatar. Will he explain that? Among other things. Hope you can hang around Armstrong and Getty.
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Podcast Summary: Armstrong & Getty On Demand – "I Like 'Rub Me'"
Release Date: May 14, 2025
Host/Authors: Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty
Produced by: iHeartPodcasts
In this episode of Armstrong & Getty On Demand, hosts Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty delve into a range of topical issues, blending political commentary, societal observations, and discussions on medical advancements. Skipping over the promotional segments, the conversation begins at [03:15] and traverses through intriguing subjects, offering listeners a comprehensive analysis of contemporary matters.
Timestamp: [03:15] – [06:51]
The episode kicks off with a compelling discussion about the stark difference in drug pricing between the United States and the United Kingdom. A personal anecdote is shared about a wealthy friend who purchases the same medication for $1,300 in New York and $88 in London.
Joe Getty critiques the American pharmaceutical pricing system:
“That's like day three of Trump's story about his fat friend.” ([04:05])
Ryan Seacrest highlights the complexity of drug pricing:
“And the way money flows into and out of various entities from your insurance company to the pharmacies to the drug companies, to the pharmacy benefit managers. An unholy group of humans if there ever was one.” ([05:13])
The conversation underscores how insurance practices, generic drug availability, and the involvement of pharmacy benefit managers contribute to inflated drug costs in the U.S., leaving consumers perplexed and frustrated.
Timestamp: [07:32] – [15:47]
Armstrong and Getty dissect former President Donald Trump's recent speech in Saudi Arabia, as reported by Mark Halperin. They analyze Trump's praise for the modernization of Saudi cities, attributing this progress to the region's own initiatives rather than Western intervention.
Joe Getty reflects on the self-sustained growth of the Middle East:
“Instead, the birth of a modern Middle East has been brought by the people of the region themselves.” ([10:02])
Ryan Seacrest comments on the role of petrodollars:
“It helps to have unlimited numbers of petrodollars.” ([11:21])
The hosts commend Trump's approach of respecting national traditions and fostering economic ties without imposing Western cultural or political models. They contrast this with previous U.S. interventions in regions like Baghdad, emphasizing the latter's lack of success in achieving lasting progress.
However, Ryan Seacrest raises concerns about potential negative influences from wealthy Middle Eastern entities:
“I'm still, for the record, I'm super uncomfortable with the fact that Qatar, for instance, is trying to buy influence in America.” ([14:14])
The discussion navigates the fine line between fostering international economic relationships and safeguarding domestic cultural and political integrity.
Timestamp: [28:11] – [38:26]
The hosts transition to a fascinating discussion on recent advancements in medical science, specifically the development of pig kidney transplants.
Ryan Seacrest introduces the topic by referencing an ultrasound of a pig kidney inside a human body:
“The level of kidney function is as good as we would expect from a human kidney transplant.” ([28:25])
Joe Getty elaborates on the technological marvels making this possible:
“This is really the progress of several Nobel prize winning discoveries. Everything from CRISPR, which is gene editing technology, actually taking genes out of the pig genome, adding other genes in from humans into the pig genome.” ([31:03])
The conversation highlights the innovative use of CRISPR, cloning, and immunology to modify pig genomes, making their organs compatible with humans. While the breakthrough promises to alleviate the shortage of human organs for transplantation, the hosts also ponder the ethical and societal implications, including concerns about potential zoonotic diseases.
“Two legs good, four legs bad. That's where you end up.” ([31:32])
Despite the humorous undertones, the hosts recognize the profound impact this technology could have on saving lives and revolutionizing transplant medicine.
Timestamp: [42:54] – [46:32]
A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to dissecting the internal struggles within the Democratic Party, particularly focusing on David Hogg, a prominent anti-gun activist and Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
Joe Getty critiques Hogg's influence and the party's response:
“He is the Vice Chairman of the DNC, David Hogg, he said today, 'Too many leaders in the Democratic Party are asleep at the wheel.'” ([43:27])
Ryan Seacrest expresses frustration with the party's handling of Hogg:
“I hate you.” ([35:50])
The hosts discuss allegations of procedural flaws being used to remove Hogg from his position, suggesting that the party is attempting to sidelined more radical elements to maintain traditional leadership structures.
“He was one of the poor kids that was in the Parkland, Florida school when the shooter went in and killed so many people... He rose to fame by coming out and being a very outspoken anti-gun sort of person.” ([45:21])
The conversation highlights tensions between progressive and moderate factions within the party, raising questions about leadership direction and party unity.
Timestamp: [20:40] – [23:28]
In a lighter yet socially relevant segment, Armstrong and Getty discuss the controversy surrounding offensive names assigned to aviation GPS waypoints. One such waypoint, RUB MI ([22:21]), has sparked debate due to its inappropriate connotation.
Joe Getty criticizes the focus on trivial matters amidst larger global issues:
“You seriously, you people got nothing more important to worry about.” ([22:52])
Ryan Seacrest sarcastically comments on the sensitivity over waypoint names:
“Look, look at me, how sensitive and enlightened I am.” ([22:57])
The hosts argue that while efforts to sanitize language are commendable, such actions may seem insignificant when juxtaposed with pressing global challenges like pandemics, economic disparities, and international conflicts.
Throughout the episode, Armstrong & Getty provide a blend of humor, critical analysis, and insightful commentary on pressing issues ranging from healthcare and international relations to internal political dynamics and societal sensitivities. Their dialogues encourage listeners to reflect on the complexities of modern governance, technological advancements, and the interplay between cultural norms and policy-making.
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This episode serves as a thought-provoking exploration of multifaceted topics, offering listeners a nuanced understanding of contemporary issues through the lens of Armstrong and Getty.