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Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
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Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Getty.
Jack Armstrong
Experts have found that strong glute muscles can increase a person's lifespan but also drain a brother's bank account. I am a fool. Picture of a woman. Kind of like a stripper with a big bottom, I see.
Joe Getty
Unfortunate.
Jack Armstrong
There you go.
Joe Getty
Coming up. Speaking of the women folk, there's really no need for any transition whatsoever. And that was a Portland the Governor's Governor of California's nutty woke Neo Marxist Greedhead wife continues to be the gift that keeps giving as she lets the world know what she thinks. So look forward to that. We've got some brand new exciting clips. This I found very interesting. Jack, you and I have several, several times brought up something that nobody ever does. And that's when we reach the brave new world of AI superintelligence. And AI can do everything from us and nobody will have to work and we can all be guitar players and poets. How exactly are we going to feed ourselves? Well, the answer is always well, the AI companies that control all the wealth of the world will distribute money so that everybody can live.
Jack Armstrong
Well, they don't even go that far. It's just that AI will make us make the country 10 to 15 to 20 to 100 times more productive. Nobody has ever filled in the blanks of okay, and then how do I end up getting a check? I mean, what's the step between your factory or whatever it is, producing more with fewer people but me getting some of the money?
Joe Getty
And what is that mechanism going to be? How long is it going to take to set up? What's the enforcement? If AI is super intelligent and all powerful and you've got like 150,000 people living behind high electrified fences with radioactive robot dogs protecting them and the rest of us are like, I thought you
Jack Armstrong
said we were gonna get a share. Well, the more I think about it, the more ridiculous it is that this conversation has not been had yet. Elon's regularly talking about not UBI but you. What is the term he used for intelligence? Yeah, well, no, no, no, no. I'm not talking about. I was talking about the universal basic income. Ubi, he uses a term you. You si.
Joe Getty
Superior income.
Jack Armstrong
Something like, just like huge amounts of money. How? Where? So at what point would that happen? Already companies are laying people off and utilizing AI, and I haven't seen them funneling any of those profits out to anybody. So at what point would they start? And why? Why would they ever start? If I can make a car without a human being and only robots, who's going to make me give away my profits?
Joe Getty
I think what they're thinking, at least for now, or maybe they're just claiming this is that. Well, the only way to stave off like bloodthirsty Revolution among the Star is that we say we're going to share and we share.
Jack Armstrong
So at the point of a gun, people are going to start giving money?
Joe Getty
Well, they're trying to prevent that, I think. But again, if they have the alleged capabilities of artificial super intelligence, what am I going to do about it? Throw a rock? They'll have, you know, whatever death rays and mind meld, you know, broadcast ability or whatever. We won't get within 50 miles of their.
Jack Armstrong
I suppose we don't need this speculation. You're saying the issue has finally been addressed?
Joe Getty
Well, yeah, in a way. Open AI. That's Sam Altman's outfit, ChatGPT, for we simple minded consumers. They released some policy proposals for a world with super intelligence. The idea could represent. Oh, this is such a good first sentence. The ideas could represent trillions of dollars of new government programs. And the bigger the government gets, the less corrupt it gets. Jack, we know that they were published as Congress is preparing to debate AI legislation and the Trump administration is trying to win support for its tech friendly policies in front of the midterms. Proposals come as the AI industry faces pressure to share the benefits of the technology with consumers. Blah blah blah.
Jack Armstrong
Share the benefits of the technology with consumers.
Joe Getty
Why?
Jack Armstrong
So I'll let you get back to that, but I'm going to do this as a project today and then I'll report tomorrow. I'm going to ask all four of the chat bots that I use. Gemini, Claude, Anthropic, Grok Elon and Chat GPT, the open AI. I'm going to ask them this question. I'm going to hit them with some of the quotes of how much more productive our country will be when AI takes over and universal basic income and then explain to me how and why this money flows to us and see what they say.
Joe Getty
Over the weekend they did a Claude did an absolutely beautiful job of advising what plants we should plant in our various pots outside. Deer. Deer resistant, perfect for the climate. Full sun. We'll see if it can handle that more chewy vexing problem I got into
Jack Armstrong
with several of the chatbots. The give me the best proof of the resurrection being true and then the arguments against and it was fantastic. I mean the deep dive it can do in the blink of an eye. It's just stunning.
Joe Getty
I know, it's mind blowing. I'm reminded of my absolute favorite comment on the AI era, which was the COVID of that Atlantic magazine that had a giant robot shooting death rays out of its eyes decimating a city and the one cartoon person says to the other one on the other hand, I've never been more productive.
Jack Armstrong
I almost don't have to read an article anymore for look, you know that kind of hits on the topic I want present the topic you want and this will write everything from a long magazine article to a book about the information that you're looking for. It's. It's so, it's so incredible.
Joe Getty
So on to OpenAI's actual policy paper. In its report entitled Industrial Policy for the intelligence age, OpenAI says superintelligence could boost corporate profits as we been discussing and capital gains while cutting income and payroll taxes because it'll cost so many jobs that fund government programs like Social Security. So even as you have vastly more people needing this stuff, the funding mechanisms will have been crushed. Whoops. That may create the need for higher taxes on companies and capital gains for the wealthy along with new ideas like taxing businesses that replace human workers with automated systems. Some experts Predict the industry could achieve so called AGI that matches human thinking in the next few years. Superintelligence would follow that in who knows how long. They trot out a handful of ideas. Yes.
Jack Armstrong
So the idea is that these companies get super productive and then the government just hits them with the you're using AI now tax that's extraordinarily high.
Joe Getty
Yeah, corporate taxes.
Jack Armstrong
And then the government decides who gets how much.
Joe Getty
Correct.
Jack Armstrong
Well that's just wonderful because they'll the
Joe Getty
conduit for that unthinkable amount of wealth. There's no chance that corruption and cronyism will will creep in luckily.
Jack Armstrong
Or that they'll decide you're a white male, you don't need as much as that person or what, who knows what decisions the government will make. Right.
Joe Getty
Many of the chat GPT makers ideas focus on benefiting workers. They include bolstering safety nets such as unemployment insurance and Medicaid and creative and creating incentives for firms to increase employer sponsored benefits including those for retirement and health care. Companies could experiment with shorter work weeks while keeping pay constant and support so called portable benefits that follow individuals rather than being tied to a specific employer. The company also proposed a public investment fund focused on AI that could regularly distribute returns to Americans. A concept very similar to the sovereign wealth fund in Alaska based on the oil industry. Everybody gets a check every year regularly
Jack Armstrong
return to just Americans. So they're so productive they're just going to have a spigot of money that goes out to all Americans? Yes, at the point of the government, I assume or out of the out of the kindness of Sam Altman's heart.
Joe Getty
Well, and at what point do you start?
Jack Armstrong
Because already Amazon, Facebook, bunch of companies have cut thousands and thousands of jobs due to AI. At what point do you start the money spigot?
Joe Getty
One more idea then I want to answer that. It said the government could make it easier for workers to get jobs in human centric fields like child care and do more to recognize caregiving as work valuable to the economy, blah blah, blah. Well, getting back to your point, learn this, know this, realize it, get it tattooed on your arm. Lest you forget it, the bigger a government gets, the more oriented it is toward doing the work of the ultra powerful and the connected. The bigger a government gets, the less responsive it is to normal people. And you're looking at a 5, 10, 50 fold increase in the power and money distributing significance to the federal government. And so it will entirely be a tool of the super rich, those who control AI and where it goes from there Nobody knows. I have no idea. I think you know, as a guy who studied political science since I was a kid practically, that almost entirely depends on the ability of the have nots to bring pressure to bear on the haves, whether they're the corporate halves or government halves.
Jack Armstrong
Well, you're worried about these the super powerful rich AI people having the money? I'm more worried about the government taking it.
Joe Getty
Well, that's what I'm saying. That will be the same people I'd
Jack Armstrong
rather have Sam Altman and Elon Musk currently doling out, you know, a trillion dollars each and trying to figure out what's the best expenditure. Then it goes to the government and then they make the decision.
Joe Getty
Oh my God, it might be the third edition Sam Altman clone who's in charge. But again, the government and the AI monsters will be inseparable. Two hemispheres of the same ultra powerful brain.
Jack Armstrong
Usually when I'm this confused, it's because I missed something. Maybe I have missed something. The the big ju they skipped a step from AI is going to take over. Nobody's going to need to work. We're all going to have not have
Joe Getty
been paying attention when they explained all
Jack Armstrong
this, but we're all going to have plenty of money and food and medicine. The in between part still makes no sense to me.
Joe Getty
Well, I just think we all have to accept the fact that we're heading straight toward a DH dystopian hellscape. This is clearly DH bound.
Jack Armstrong
Well, we're already living in a patriarchy according to Gavin Newsom's life. She had quite the Instagram post about the patriarchy. We'll get to a little bit later. Stay tuned.
Joe Getty
Armstrong and Getty
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Jack Armstrong
In a Profanity lace post, Trump demanded Iran quote Open the expletive straight, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in hell. Trump ended the post. Praise be Allah. So we've had a lot of fun with that because that's a pretty unique thing for a president to tweet out or truth out over the weekend, but to the serious part of it about open the Damn straight. The straight out Hormuz is quite the leverage point and I listened to a long podcast with super smart people about various directions this could go. But I want to read you this piece that I came across over the weekend I thought was really good. Trump Hormuz in the End of the Free Ride for half a century, Western strategists have known that the straight of Hormuz is the acute point where energy, sea power and political will intersect. That knowledge is not in dispute. What is new in this war with Iran is that the United States under Donald Trump has chosen not to rush to solve the problem in Hegelian terms. As in the philosopher Hegel, he is refusing an easy synthesis in order to force the underlying contradiction to the surface. A lot of fancy words there, but this gets explained right here. The old thesis was simple. The US guarantees open sea lanes in the Gulf and everywhere in the world, really, and everyone else structures their economies and politics around that free insurance. Europe and the UK embraced ambitious green policies, ran down hard power capabilities, and lectured Washington on multilateral virtue secure in the assumption that American carriers would always appear off Hormuz if you needed them. The political class behaved as if the American security guarantee were a law of nature, not a contingent choice. Their conduct today is closer to Chamberlain than Churchill temporizing, issuing statements, hoping the storm will pass without a fundamental reordering of their responsibilities. Trump's antithesis is to withhold the automatic guarantee at the moment of maximum stress. Militarily, the US can break Iran's residual ability to contest the strait. That is not the binding constraint. The point is to delay the act. By allowing a closure or semi closure to bite, Trump ensures that the immediate pain is concentrated in exactly the jurisdictions that have the most free ridden on US power the EU and the uk, their industries, consumers and energy transitions. Assumptions are exposed. That is so good, I know in that context, his reported blunt message to Europe and British leaders, you need the oil out of the straight more than we do. Why don't you just go get it? Get your own damn oil is not a throwaway line. It is the verbalization of the antithesis. It openly reverses the traditional presumption that America will carry the burden while its allies emote from the sidelines. That is exactly what's going on.
Joe Getty
I want to set that to music and sing it every day.
Jack Armstrong
And people treat Trump's proclamations as if he's just shooting from the hip with no plan, blah, blah, blah.
Joe Getty
He risks destroying NATO.
Jack Armstrong
Europe has been able to pursue their green energy goals and their social welfare states, and all this with the assumption that we were always going to open it up. Well, now, particularly because we can produce our own oil if we have to, we said, no, we ain't going to open it up. That isn't our biggest, that isn't our number one goal, if you want to know. Maybe you are looking to opening it.
Joe Getty
Wow. Wow.
Jack Armstrong
It's, it's a kind of a lesson for life that sometimes you can get so caught up in various power dynamics and realize, boy, if I do this, it completely flips it around.
Joe Getty
And the danger in saying, oh my God, I need to solve this problem, but it would be so uncomfortable and inconvenient, I'm just going to perpetuate it. There comes a point where often you hit a crisis and you realize maybe there's no going back at that point. So, yeah, I think one of the best things Trump has done over and over again is call out our nearly useless allies. Not completely useless, I'm not a fool, but increasingly useless.
Jack Armstrong
Now, I heard this posited over the weekend, the idea of Europe cutting a separate deal with Iran outside of the United States. So Iran lets European ships go in and out and they get their oil, but we're cut out?
Joe Getty
Yeah, there's some suspicions that that may be happening because there were a couple of, was it Spanish or French oil tankers that got through. Wouldn't that be wild
Jack Armstrong
if Iran and Europe cut a deal behind our backs?
Joe Getty
That discussion needs more time than we have right now.
Jack Armstrong
No kidding. I wonder how that would play out. You got to hear from Gavin Newsom's wife. She put out a new post over the weekend. Stay tuned.
Joe Getty
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Jennifer Siebel Newsom
We're all human beings. Gender's a spectrum anyway. It's a social construct. There's so much to learn from same sex couples who have learned to communicate. I've given our boys dolls. Even if they tear the head off, I've given them dolls. I don't know if our country is ready for first partner. Sadly, I don't know if they are.
Joe Getty
Oh boy, that's a long day.
Jack Armstrong
That's Gavin Newsom's wife.
Joe Getty
Excuse me, partner.
Jack Armstrong
Haughty, hectoring and pleased with herself as described by Miranda Devine of the California Post. Ding, ding and ding. Over the weekend, she inserted herself in the news again with an Instagram video pontificating about the war on women that President Trump has launched. You're about to hear it. I'll do the description of Miranda Devine does of it since you're not watching the video. She's standing in front of a hedge for some reason, she opined, in a mint green jacket with her long blonde tresses cascading fetchingly over one shoulder. Well, that's true.
Joe Getty
And.
Jack Armstrong
And here's what it sounded like.
Jennifer Siebel Newsom
Trust me, I'm not a fan of Pam Bondi, nor Kristi. No, but I need to call out that it's no surprise to me that the first two prominent people pushed out of this administration were women. Let me explain the conservative women that Trump hand picks who align themselves with an agenda that controls women, restricting our rights, limiting our autonomy, and pushing us back into this straitjacket of femininity that is only in service of men. There's a familiar pattern here. Women are brought in packaged mar? A Lago style, and lifted up as long as they commit to wholeheartedly serve the interests of the patriarch at the top. Now, it looks like power, or proximity to power with a big title, but it never comes with job security and protection. There's no secure place inside this handpicked patriarchal body that systemically disrespects, devalues and discriminates against women and girls.
Joe Getty
Yeah, you're right. Signed William Barr and Jeff Sessions and various generals. And come on.
Jack Armstrong
Right. The number of people he has pushed out in a term in a year, Most of them dudes. What are you talking about? But her speak, that's the main thing. She absolutely has that university Marxist language down so clearly. Let's hear a little more from her before we talk about and this is
Jennifer Siebel Newsom
where complicity comes in because when you align yourself with that value system, with a leader who has publicly devalued women, degraded them, and been found liable of abusing women, well, guess what? You're going to be the first to go. So while you're in a perceived position of power in this system that regularly diminishes and devalues other women, even if you help sustain and uplift this system, your power is only temporary. Temporary. And ultimately, they will come for you. That's the unfortunate truth. For all women, no woman is safe in Trump's Republican Party unless she has enough wealth or the ability to buy her own job security and safety. And so, my friends, regardless of your political affiliation, you might want to wake up and see this for what it truly is. It's a war on all women.
Jack Armstrong
War on all women. The patriarchy.
Joe Getty
Oh, my God.
Jack Armstrong
Good luck with that, Gavin running for president.
Joe Getty
Oh, man, you got it. You got that hanging around your neck, literally and figuratively. I love the opening part of the first clip where she was explaining how we are plunging down, down, down toward a Handmaid's Tales style oppression of women. I mean, my wife hardly goes an hour without complaining about all of her rights that have been taken away and. And lack of autonomy. What are you talking about, crazy broad? Are you talking about the fact that, you know, conservatives want fewer abortions? So does the vast majority of America. They're practically unanimous in reasonable restrictions the further along the pregnancy goes. What are you even talking about? On the other hand, you cannot get Marxism going with ever. Whichever argument you use, whether it's economic or social or sexual or minority or whatever. You've got to convince people they're being beaten and exploited and that they need to rise up. You've got to create that.
Jack Armstrong
She lives in such an interesting world where she sees this all the time, this sort of thing.
Joe Getty
Yeah. I think she's the ultimate useful idiot. She is. Has become convinced that this is her ticket to be someone who matters. And she doesn't even. I suspect she doesn't even understand that she's a tool of postmodernist neo Marxists. She's just so pleased with herself it never enters into her mind.
Jack Armstrong
Anyway, she is going to. What did Miranda Devine color in the California Post? Haughty, hectoring and pleased with herself.
Joe Getty
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
Gonna be a lot of her man outlets are gonna be climbing over each other to get interviews with her when he's running for president with a photo spread.
Joe Getty
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
And. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And a lot of them will think they're helping his cause by getting her out there more. Which is not going to be the case.
Joe Getty
Marie Claire recently declared in a gushing spread that Ms. Newsom is the most underestimated woman in American politics.
Jack Armstrong
Oh boy, here we go then.
Joe Getty
And Miranda Devine actually points out she's about to unleash another gender obsessed vanity documentary funded by taxpayers and her husband's donors and unleash that on the state's struggling public schools. Her last film about what else? Toxic Masculinity was shown in 1000 schools which had to pay for the privilege. Would you like some details on that?
Jack Armstrong
They showed a movie in my kids
Joe Getty
schools about toxic masculinity produced by Jennifer Siebel Newsom's fake charity to her and her fake charity's profit. Here's how it works.
Jack Armstrong
Even without they're separate things going on here. That's a scam and we should be appalled by it.
Joe Getty
The whole.
Jack Armstrong
So your wife makes these documentaries, gets paid a lot and then they're forced into the schools and you got no choice but take them by the government. That's its own thing. But even if it was, you know, funded by George Soros and doesn't cost a dollar of a taxpayer money, I don't want toxic masculinity movies being played
Joe Getty
in the public school indoctrination. Yeah, exactly. Siebel Newsom leaned on her powerful husband and his education board to push preachy flicks about toxic masculinity into classrooms, casting her husband as an enlightened Democratic savior for school kids, all while raking in up to $300,000 annually through her non profit the Representation Project and for profit outfit Girls Club Entertainment. She said of one of her films in an interview, quote, I turned the lens on Boys and Men and looked at the boy crisis in America and how we are failing our boys and men with this sort of rigid notion of toxic masculinity.
Jack Armstrong
What are you talking about?
Joe Getty
Newsom is featured as a humble bragging talking head in Siebel Newsom's films, blah blah blah, alongside a cadre of lefty activists, Democratic politicians and academics hammering viewers with progressive totems like raising the minimum wage as a cure for gender inequity.
Jack Armstrong
Who thinks that our biggest problem is young men in America today are too manly.
Joe Getty
Right? Exactly. Too tied to rigid masculine stereotypes. We have the ability to step up and solve big problems. It's just a question of prioritization of political will, she said. Blah, blah blah. Even the liberal New York Times later called the film disingenuous because it's directed by the spouse of a top Democrat, but the relationship is never disclosed to the unwitting child viewers.
Jack Armstrong
Wow.
Joe Getty
What's more, Newsom's own Department of Education shilled his wife's documentaries in official state guidelines after the Representation Project bragged in a 2014 tax filing that his films and curricula were used in a thousand California public schools.
Jack Armstrong
Now, are these available somewhere to watch? Because I would like to.
Joe Getty
I would like to watch.
Jack Armstrong
I'm sure. Well, it should be. I'm not sure they are. I'm sure I would find it appalling. I gotta seek that out and try to watch it. I don't know where you'd find it.
Joe Getty
We could point out that nobody can read or do math in California schools. But final note, Representation Project with Siebel Newsom, founded in 2011 when her hubby was lieutenant governor, licenses her gender obsessed documentary trilogy, Misrepresentation, the mask you live in and the Great American Lie and another film called Fair play the great American lie to K through 12 schools, universities and corporations charging anywhere from $50 to 1500 dollars to show the film.
Jack Armstrong
What's the great American Lie?
Joe Getty
I don't know. I'd have to look it up. But her for profit out.
Jack Armstrong
I like the way you're a do gooder in the world and the way you do good is you make documentaries and then charge the schools to play them. I mean generally I laugh. Generally when you're a philanthropist do gooder you would. You would not charge somebody to. To help them.
Joe Getty
The Representation Project has earned more than $3 million in screenings and film sales, paying Siebel Newsom $150,000 salary plus additional reimbursements worth up to another 150 and annually per IRS. Finally. Which he's had to spend on their expensive houses. Oh no, that's right. They always mysteriously get houses for free. Paid for by donors.
Jack Armstrong
Right. I hate when they even talk about salaries because it's such a practically a red herring. The salary compared to the travel expenses and all that sort of stuff that you get housing and travel.
Joe Getty
Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I just. Well, I think for the grace of
Jack Armstrong
God, I guarantee you she flies around first class and uber private and all that sort of stuff on. Yeah, on the charity. That adds up to way more than her salary. Yeah. God, that's annoying. Yes, Katie.
Joe Getty
The Great American Lie examines the roots of systemic inequalities through a unique gender lens. With America facing widening economic inequality and stagnant social mobility, this film takes audiences on an empathy journey inspiring A path of forward.
Jack Armstrong
And they're going to play that for your or have played that for your damn kid. Oh, my God, that's awful. So you're taking like the most extreme Joy Reish view that you ever see on MSNBC and putting it in the school and presenting it to kids that have no context. To not know that this just isn't fact. This isn't just all completely true. Oh, that's maddening. Why do we put up with this?
Joe Getty
Add to that the gender bending insanity that she, she promotes hard for little kids in California schools.
Jack Armstrong
Why do we put up with this? And it costs so much money in California and taxes to live here to pay for these expensive schools and the expensive public schools because they're so expensive to run and they're doing this.
Joe Getty
Yeah, I know. It's obscene.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, it is obscene.
Joe Getty
Wow.
Jack Armstrong
Most people don't pay attention and you shouldn't. I was about to say you shouldn't have to, but that's not the way the world works. But you kind of hope that you wouldn't have to. You send your kid to school. They're just trying to teach them how to read and write. There's no, there's no, you know, strong political bias there. They're just trying to teach your kid how to read and write, you know, and play tetherball at gym class. But no, that's not exactly right.
Joe Getty
The genderbred person and privilege walks and that sort of thing are required curriculum in California schools.
Jack Armstrong
I know that. Wow.
Joe Getty
It's obscene.
Jack Armstrong
It really, really is. Okay, we will finish strong.
Joe Getty
Next, Armstrong and Getty.
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Joe Getty
It's a Influencer, comedian, talking about various things that annoy him. People do in public.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, okay.
Joe Getty
Oh, I see that there's a car
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I'm just going to keep walking right
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Jack Armstrong
Oops, I'm in the dentist waiting room and I'm getting a phone call. Better put this one on speakerphone.
Joe Getty
Oh, it's my turn to order after spending over 20 minutes in line. Gosh, I have no idea. I'd better start the decision making process right now.
Jack Armstrong
Hey kids, why don't you run around and scream and climb all over the chairs while I wrap up this 45 minute phone call with your Uncle Rich.
Joe Getty
Okay guys, let's group up for a photo right in the middle of this walkway.
Jack Armstrong
Excuse me, do you have any cold, stinky, meaty sandwiches I can bring onto my crowded flight? The only one I don't completely agree with is people gathering together for a photo. I just, you know, know you want a photo there. Sometimes that's the only place you can get the sidewalk.
Joe Getty
It was controversial.
Jack Armstrong
I don't like people who bring smelly food or any really any food that is got an odor of any kind onto a plane. I hate that. God, that's just disgusting to me.
Joe Getty
But it's either going to make you hungry or disgusted.
Jack Armstrong
The one the One More Thing podcast will feature. Part of the story is the whole here in the Dennis waiting room, I'm going to take the phone call on speakerphone. As part of the story, I'm going to tell you in one more thing. Something that happened into Urgent Care yesterday. Unbelievable. Earlier, I told detail of my Easter dinner alone at the IHOP yesterday, which is a sad moment. I did cross make the bacon into a cross on my plate as some sort of, I don't know, homaged.
Joe Getty
That's bizarre.
Jack Armstrong
But as I mentioned, so I was the only person at ihop. It was one of the few places open in my area on Easter Sunday. My kids are sick. I had to run some errands to get him some medicine. I was hungry. I stopped at ihop. I go in there for Easter dinner and I'm alone. And then at the end of the meal, he came over with a Easter basket with plastic eggs in it and said, would you like an Easter egg? And I thought, wow, you're prepared for the people who come to IHOP for Easter dinner. And that's supposed to make us, I don't know, feel festive, better?
Joe Getty
Or now I have a plastic egg.
Jack Armstrong
Or like your life isn't hasn't gone completely sideways and you've made a series of bad choices or something that she led you to Easter dinner at the ihop. I mean, it's hard to come up with many good situations where that has happened.
Joe Getty
But you disclosed earlier the egg was not merely an egg.
Jack Armstrong
No. You opened the egg and it had a coupon in there for 10 off your next meal at the IHOP. So.
Joe Getty
Wow. 10 at the IHOP. My, my.
Jack Armstrong
Well, I just, I, I, I don't, I don't even know how to merge the, all the crassness of the whole thing together. It's Easter Sunday. I'm at IHOP by myself. Things aren't going well. Obviously it's not, it's not what you probably want out of. Do you want to be reminded that Easter by having you bring by the Easter basket with the little plastic eggs?
Joe Getty
Maybe he saw you making your bacon cross and knew that you were already aware.
Jack Armstrong
I would think that there's nobody at IHOP on Easter Sunday that wants to be reminded that it's Easter. I could be.
Joe Getty
Boy, if you're making bacon crosses in honor of Easter, nobody's gonna mistake you for a Jewish fella. That's for sure. That's definitely not nor Muslim.
Jack Armstrong
Check your clock. It's time to stop Jack and Joe.
Joe Getty
They've gotta go. And if they don't, you can.
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Jack Armstrong
Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Joe Getty
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew to wrap up the day. There is Michelangelo in the control room pressing the buttons. Michael, what's your final thought? Yeah, I'm looking forward to the one more thing Jack's story, but yeah, that speakerphones at the gym can't stand them people that decide to have conversations while you're working out.
Jack Armstrong
Man, you are either the kind of person that does that or you would never do that. There's no in between, I think.
Joe Getty
Yeah. Yeah. Katie Green, our esteemed news woman, has a final thought. Katie? Thinking about bringing food on a plane. The last time I flew, a woman brought some very iffy sushi on the plane. Oh, borderline sushi. Not good. Jack, a final thought for us.
Jack Armstrong
I actually had two different Easter services I was planning to go to yesterday morning. I'd figured out a time situation where I could get up early to go one Easter service and then make it in time for a different Easter service that some neighbors invited me to, but my kids were sick and I didn't get to go in there. Next thing you know you're at IHOP getting a plastic egg with a 10 coupon. Exactly that. I should have had a. I should have had a trombone player following me around all day long.
Joe Getty
My final thought has to do with the loss of my beloved Fighting Illini in the semifinal game there at the Final Four. You can do everything right, but if you can't make any shots, you're gonna lose a lot of basketball games.
Jack Armstrong
So who's playing tonight?
Joe Getty
Michigan. And what's their faces? Connecticut.
Jack Armstrong
Michigan and Connecticut for the final.
Joe Getty
They call them. Yes, the hated Wolverines.
Jack Armstrong
Boo. Armstrong and Getty Wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah boy. So the deadline for bombing the crap out of Iran is Tuesday afternoon. We'll have more on that tomorrow. God bless America. Armstrong and Getty well they call it a sad Sunday
Joe Getty
Cuz I'm at a
Jack Armstrong
sitting all alone they call it a sad sad Sunday and baby I'm so low I'm pouring the syrup of bitterness My pancakes soaked in tears oh get the podcast Armstrong and get it on demand.
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Date: April 6, 2026
Hosts: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty
This episode of Armstrong & Getty On Demand navigates through biting satire, political skepticism, and sharp cultural commentary. The primary topics include AI economic impacts, U.S. foreign policy under Trump, the controversy surrounding Jennifer Siebel Newsom (California’s "First Partner"), and a lighter segment about public irritation and Jack’s lonely IHOP Easter. The hosts infuse their trademark irreverence, skepticism about government, and concern for social trends throughout.
Timestamps: 04:16–15:59
"Nobody has ever filled in the blanks of okay, and then how do I end up getting a check? …what's the step between your factory...producing more with fewer people but me getting some of the money?" (05:34)
"The bigger a government gets, the more oriented it is toward doing the work of the ultra powerful and the connected...it will entirely be a tool of the super rich, those who control AI..." – Joe Getty (13:21)
Timestamps: 19:03–23:44
"The point is to delay the act. By allowing a closure or semi closure to bite, Trump ensures that the immediate pain is concentrated in exactly the jurisdictions that have...free ridden on US power — the EU and the UK." (21:33)
Timestamps: 27:10–38:44
"Trust me, I’m not a fan of Pam Bondi nor Kristi Noem, but I need to call out that it’s no surprise to me that the first two prominent people pushed out of this administration were women...it’s a war on all women." (27:22/29:48)
"She has that university Marxist language down so clearly...You cannot get Marxism going with...whichever argument you use. You’ve got to convince people they’re being beaten and exploited and that they need to rise up." – Joe Getty (30:39/31:51)
"You would not charge somebody to help them...The Representation Project has earned more than $3 million in screenings and film sales." – Jack Armstrong (36:39)
Timestamps: 43:06–46:51
"I don't even know how to merge the, all the crassness of the whole thing together. It's Easter Sunday. I'm at IHOP by myself. Things aren't going well." – Jack Armstrong (46:02)
This episode expertly blends social and political skepticism with everyday observations, moving from deep questions about AI-driven economies and U.S. foreign affairs to the personal absurdities of Easter at IHOP. Fans of Armstrong & Getty will recognize a familiar blend of skepticism about government, media, and elite activists, with a healthy dose of everyday humor and candor.
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