I Was Having You Followed

Summary

Armstrong & Getty On Demand: Episode Summary – "I Was Having You Followed"

Release Date: March 28, 2025

Introduction

In the latest episode of Armstrong & Getty On Demand, hosted by Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty under the umbrella of iHeartPodcasts, the hosts delve into a myriad of topics ranging from personal anecdotes and family updates to incisive political commentary and current events. The episode, titled "I Was Having You Followed," offers listeners a blend of humor, critical analysis, and thought-provoking discussions, all while maintaining the show's signature engaging and conversational tone.

Personal Stories and Weekend Plans

The episode kicks off with Jack and Joe sharing personal stories, providing a relatable and humanizing touch to the broadcast.

• Joe Getty's Son's Camping Trip: Joe excitedly discusses his son's first Boy Scout camping trip, highlighting the practical aspects like purchasing reusable plates and spoons. He remarks, "He's really into the merit badges and wanting to learn all this different stuff" ([02:40]).

• Filling Out Forms as a Life Lesson: Joe emphasizes the Boy Scouts' recommendation for teaching kids the importance of filling out forms, stating, "There's a fair amount of paperwork to fill out, which I would have just filled out like I've done for all the school stuff. But the Boy Scouts recommended make this a life lesson" ([03:12]).

Discussion on Doge and Government Efficiency

A significant portion of the episode centers around the concept of "Doge" and its implications for government operations. The hosts explore the idea of making the federal government as efficient and customer-friendly as the Apple Store experience.

• Doge Interviews and Efficiency Goals: Jack enthuses about the Doge interviews, noting, "What I found most compelling... is they made the point that... the federal government might even be an allied agency under the same umbrella, spending $50 million trying to get the information they have right next door" ([04:29]).

• Critique of Government Redundancy: Joe and Jack discuss the redundancy within federal agencies, with Jack sarcastically stating, "You can have more people in the department of turning a screw to the right than there are screws to turn to the right." ([06:23]).

• Potential Missteps and Political Implications: The hosts express skepticism about upcoming policies, such as proposed car tariffs, predicting they could be politically damaging. Jack remarks, "I think that's going to be seen as a huge misstep. I hope I'm wrong, but I think it's a Mistake." ([07:32]).

Current Events and News Highlights

Katie Green provides a rundown of the week's major news stories, which the hosts scrutinize with their characteristic critical lens.

• International Relations:

  • Ukraine and American Strength: "Ukraine's Zelensky says he wants America to be strong and vows to counter Russian narratives." ([12:16]).
  • U.S. Vice President's Greenland Trip: "Vice President Vance and wife Usha head to Greenland amid U.S. takeover controversy." ([12:26]).

• Domestic Policies and Scandals:

  • RFK Jr. and the Health Department: "Health department plans to slash 10,000 jobs as RFK Jr. upends the agency." ([13:03]).
  • Visa Revocations of Foreign Students: "Secretary of State Marco Rubio says 350 foreign students have had visas revoked." ([13:08]).

• Incidents and Law Enforcement:

  • Molotov Cocktail Attack at Tesla Shop: "Man arrested in Molotov cocktail attack at Tesla shop in Las Vegas will also face federal charges." ([14:21]).
  • North Korea's Suicide Attack Drones: "North Korea claims to have made suicide attack drones that use AI." ([15:02]).

• Technological Advancements and Predictions:

  • Bill Gates on AI Replacing Jobs: "Bill Gates says that within 10 years I will replace many doctors and teachers and humans won't be needed for most things." ([15:59]).

Consumer Trust and Technology in Government

Jack and Joe engage in a critical discussion about the integration of outdated technology within government systems and the pervasive surveillance mechanisms tracking citizens.

• Government Technology Lag: Jack questions, "Why human beings incorporating the technology of the late 80s into the federal government?" ([05:48]).

• Surveillance Concerns: Joe raises alarms about privacy, stating, "They're all kept track of... the vehicle records... Ear of the opposite if I want of what I want." ([30:54]).

Mailbag and Listener Comments

The hosts address listener emails and comments, injecting humor and personal opinions into the discourse.

• Arson Incident Analysis: Discussing the recent arson at a Tesla shop, Joe speculates on the perpetrator's motivations, linking it to broader societal issues: "He'd be alive today. But he killed her." ([10:02]).

• Social Security Debate: The conversation veers into the controversial nature of Social Security, with Ashley questioning if it's a Ponzi scheme, leading to philosophical musings on governmental promises: "Do you think it's a Ponzi scheme?" ([22:07]).

Special Segments and Highlights

Throughout the episode, special segments such as "Clips of the Week" and interviews with notable figures like Elon Musk are featured, providing deeper insights into the topics discussed.

• Elon Musk and Doge Interview: The hosts preview an upcoming segment featuring Elon Musk discussing the Doge initiative, praising the professionalism of the interviewees: "It's some of the best, smartest, most serious people in America... trying to make the federal government more efficient." ([28:09]).

• One More Thing Podcast: After the main show, Jack and Joe introduce their "One More Thing" podcast, which includes additional humorous and offbeat content, such as discussions about American politics and casual banter.

Notable Quotes

• Joe Getty on Bureaucracy: "There's a certain skill, talent to you get used to after doing it your whole life." ([04:29]).

• Jack Armstrong on Government Efficiency: "Imagine the level of hypocrisy it takes to be against that, to be so in bed with the federal bureaucracy... That's evil." ([27:34]).

• Eric Hoffer's Reflection: "The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations." ([32:58]).

Concluding Thoughts

In "I Was Having You Followed," Armstrong and Getty navigate through personal stories, political satire, and incisive critiques of governmental inefficiencies with their trademark humor and sharp insight. The episode serves as both an entertaining and thought-provoking listen, encouraging audiences to reflect on the complexities of governance, technology, and societal issues. By weaving together personal anecdotes with broader political commentary, the hosts create a multifaceted narrative that resonates with listeners seeking both entertainment and substantive discussion.

Key Takeaways:

• Government Efficiency: A central theme is the need for the federal government to adopt more efficient, customer-friendly practices akin to successful private sector models.

• Surveillance and Privacy: The episode raises concerns about the pervasive surveillance mechanisms tracking citizen movements and activities, questioning the balance between security and privacy.

• Political Critique: The hosts provide a critical lens on current political strategies, policies, and international relations, particularly focusing on the implications of actions by figures like Elon Musk and policies affecting Ukraine.

• Technological Impact: Discussions on AI replacing human roles underscore the tension between technological advancement and its societal repercussions.

Listeners are encouraged to stay tuned for upcoming interviews and segments that promise to delve deeper into these pressing issues.

Transcript

[Ashley Akinetti]

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[Joe Getty]

Providers.

[Jack Armstrong]

Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio.

[Jenny Garth]

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

[Jack Armstrong]

Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Gay.

[Joe Getty]

Live.

[Jack Armstrong]

From Studio C Senior.

[Joe Getty]

We're in a dimly lit room, deeper than the bowels of the arms, drawing and getting communications compound.

[Jack Armstrong]

Hey, y'all.

[Joe Getty]

Today we're under the. On a Friday, heading into the weekend. Come on. Now. We're under the tutelage of our general.

[Jack Armstrong]

Manager, the patriotic heroes of Doge.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's right. All aboard the Doge train.

[Joe Getty]

Joe goes full MAGA right off the bat.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, partly. There's good, there's bad. Imagine that. Saying that about an administration. They do great stuff and make mistakes. Oh, my God, it's so complicated. How could you listen to this show? The Doge stuff. I am so fully on board. Holy cow. Now I fully get it. We've got some great, great audio for you of not Elon. Elon's fine. Elon's great. Elon's a bit of a loose cannon, but the geniuses who are trying to reform are floundering, money squandering, idiot of a federal government.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, we do have some really good clips for you. And it's kind of a shame that the media hasn't done a better job of talking to these people. I don't know, maybe they wouldn't talk to anybody else but Fox. But I was thinking last night, I wish 60 Minutes had done the same segment because people watch Fox tend to already be on board, you know, I hear.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah. I would like to see the sort of outreach continue anyway to the extent that anybody's interested in hearing it. Tell me about the old lady who starved to death in Poughkeepsie.

[Joe Getty]

Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't think what right.

[Joe Getty]

Exactly. How y'all doing? You excited about the weekend? Huh? My son's got a. His first Boy Scout camping trip overnight this weekend. He's very excited. We have to buy some more stuff today, like plates and spoons for the eating around the campfire and all that sort of stuff. And he's, he's just, he can't wait.

[Jack Armstrong]

So I'm guessing because it's the Boy Scouts, it's not going to be like paper plates and plastic stuff you throw away. It's going to be more responsible. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Joe Getty]

You know, he's really into the merit badges and wanting to learn all this different stuff last night. And this was something they encouraged. I thought it was interesting. They, there's no merit badge for this, but there's a, there's a fair amount of paperwork to fill out, which I would have just filled out like I've done for all the school stuff. But the Boy Scouts recommended make this a life lesson for your kid about filling out forms and teach them to fill out forms. And also it'll help you in future forms that they can fill them up themselves. And I thought, wow, I'd never done that before.

[Jack Armstrong]

Earning his bureaucracy badge.

[Joe Getty]

Right? Exactly. Which should be a merit badge. Your life is a pain in the ass merit badge. And filling out forms, which there is a certain skill, talent to you get used to after doing it your whole life.

[Jack Armstrong]

You just have to deaden your soul for the 20 minutes it takes to fill out the forms.

[Joe Getty]

That's part of it. Like for instance, why am I writing my name and my birthday for the 19th time? Why does that need to happen? It's already on six other pages, but whatever. But all paperwork is like that. I'm not beating up on the Boy Scouts at all. It's just, I just always wonder that, you know, you go to the doctor and okay, you had me check in online and mark down all the medications I still take or don't take. Now why am I doing it again now that I'm here? Right?

[Jack Armstrong]

Just all one of the things I found most compelling and interesting about the Doge guy, interviews and audio that we're going to play for you is they made the point that, okay, you have agency A, who has all this information. Agency B, that's right across the street. Federal government might even be an allied agency under the same umbrella. Spends $50 million trying to get the information they have right next door.

[Joe Getty]

Right, exactly that. Yeah. These two things actually tie together in that way. The one billionaire dude that works for Doge, you know, had been portrayed in the media as a bunch of 19 year old losers. Bunch of bros snapping towels. And not business experts, rocket scientists and billionaires who, who are sacrificing their kush lives to take on this project. Anyway, one guy Said we'd like the government to be like the Apple Store experience. Well, I don't think we'll ever get there, but that's, that's, that's a fantastic goal.

[Jack Armstrong]

Hell, let's make it like the Target experience as a preliminary goal and go for Apple Store, you know, down the road.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I don't know how many ever buy stuff the Apple Store, but man, you walk in there and they ask you what you want and next thing you know you're walking out of the bag and you never saw a cash register or anything like that. And it just, it's amazing and it's all about streamlining things and I don't.

[Jack Armstrong]

Know why human beings incorporating the technology of the late 80s into the federal government, I mean that would be a huge step forward.

[Joe Getty]

Right. How do you explain that? Why does the government end up running on ancient computer stuff like floppy disks and whatnot if they're not just using paper?

[Jack Armstrong]

Like it's because 50s there's such a lack of, you know, positive reinforcement for innovation.

[Joe Getty]

But they like spending money, so I'm just surprised that they don't like jump on the opportunity to spend money on the latest, coolest computer every time it comes out.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, I, I, I get your point. That just, that doesn't benefit the bureaucrats directly. They're much better off spending their money on something that grows their turf.

[Joe Getty]

Or I wonder if every advancement would mean you'd need 1 to 1,000 fewer people. So you don't want to do that.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's part of it too. I'm sure one of the other interesting themes among the doge geniuses was the mind boggling redundancy that exists in the federal government. You can have more people in the department of turning a screw to the right than there are screws to turn to the right. But they just never get sacked.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, really interesting stuff, man. I hope they make a dent or successful or are able to change the culture. I'm, I don't want to say I'm pessimistic, but I think you're realistic. Yeah, yeah. And I hate to even say it out loud because it just seems so can't do as an attitude, but you know, the ne the next administration comes along, quite possibly a Democratic administration, you know, will go full throttle the other direction.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah. Which is the basis of my frustration with, for instance, the car tariffs that are about to start that I think are gonn be seen as a huge misstep. I hope I'm wrong, but I think it's a Mistake. It's going to drive up prices. Trump's trying to browbeat the carmakers into not raising their prices. And they're like, all of our inputs are going to increase in price. All of our parts and 25%. Yeah. And I think there's going to be a huge misstep, which decreases the chance that The Vance or DeSantis administration or whatever next in 2028 even exists. I want that to exist very much. I want another four years of momentum for the really, really good stuff. And I think some of the not so good stuff is gonna, well, could derail it again. I hope I'm wrong. I'm not rooting for, you know, I hope the tariffs end up punishing consumers and they are so angry they throw that on his ear. No, that's the opposite if I want of what I want. But Trump's the loose can.

[Joe Getty]

Breaking news. King Charles is back out of the hospital. Will have full team coverage on that royal medical mishap.

[Jack Armstrong]

Thank God.

[Joe Getty]

Later in the show.

[Jack Armstrong]

Let's search. Would the world have done without Prince Charles leading us figuratively at this point? King. Oh, right, sorry.

[Joe Getty]

The king of England promoted. You can't. Yada, yada, yada. The King of England. Okay, let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe getting. This Friday, March 28th, the year 2025. We're Armstrong and getting. We approve of this program.

[Jack Armstrong]

I hope they don't put me in the Iron Maiden or something. All right, here we go. Officially, beginning according to FCC rules and regulations, the show starts at Mark.

[Katie Green]

The simple survey. That was literally a 10 question survey that you could do with Survey Monkey cost you about $10,000. Was the government was being charged almost a billion dollars for that.

[Jack Armstrong]

For just the survey.

[Katie Green]

A billion dollars for. For a simple online survey. Do you like the national park? And then there appeared to be no feedback loop for what would be done with that survey. So the server would just go to nothing. It was like insane.

[Joe Getty]

That's one of my favorite stories. So they got to do a survey which, you know, maybe the government needs to do to figure out what people like and don't like and everything. Like it with a variety of things. But if you're a private company, you'd spend ten grand to get this survey done. The government goes to do the survey. Somebody says, I'm sorry, that'll be a billion dollars. Because it's the government and somebody else's money. Somebody. Apparently it's somewhere along the lines. Sounds good to me. Where do I sign and then they.

[Jack Armstrong]

Don'T do anything with it.

[Joe Getty]

And I think that the information that goes into a black hole anyway, how often does that happen?

[Jack Armstrong]

But what about the old lady who's starving in Pokepsy? Thanks to the Elon Musk cuts, the world's richest man slapped the food out of the old lady's mouth. She'd be alive today. But he killed her.

[Joe Getty]

And that's why I set three cyber trucks on fire just on the way to work.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh boy.

[Joe Getty]

Wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

Fighting back against Nazis.

[Joe Getty]

Exactly.

[Jack Armstrong]

Who want to make the government efficient for taxpayers. And so as Elon and his cohort put it so many times, no, we want people to get more from Social Security, more smoothly, more easily, not less.

[Joe Getty]

So Katie's headlines on the way in a variety of topics. We go mailbag. We got more news of the day. We'll play some of the Doge interview that aired on Fox yesterday. It was really damned interesting. Everybody I know that watched it really loved it. So we got all that. Hope you can stick around Armstrong and Getty.

[Jenny Garth]

This is Jenny Garth from I do part two. You could have lost 10 pounds already if you started one month ago. So are you ready to start today? Find out if weight loss meds are right for you in just three minutes at try fh.com try fh.com results vary based on start weight and adherence to diet, exercise and program goals. Data based on independent studies sponsored by Future Health. Future Health is not a health care services provider. Meds are prescribed at providers discretion.

[Joe Getty]

Maybe I'm stealing a headline again, Katie, right here, but you know, the, the whole text chain scandal with Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense getting so much attention. The fact that he's in the Philippines talking tough and China is really upset about it is a much bigger story long term for the planet. And that's where he is right now.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. And it certainly makes you wonder about the narrative that Trump is dividing up the world into fiefdoms. The great powers, Russia gets Eastern Europe, China gets, you know, South China Sea, whatever, and we get the rest of it or whatever. No, he's, he's, he's talking crazy tough there in their region. Wonder what it means. We'll dive into it. Clips of the week coming up. We've got Mailbag, all sorts of interesting stuff and those, those clips from the Doge guys, just tremendous. All of that to come. But first let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead story with Katie Green. Katie?

[Katie Green]

All right, guys, starting with Reuters, Ukraine's Zelensky says he wants America to be strong and vows to counter Russian narratives.

[Jack Armstrong]

Meanwhile, Trump and company just redrew the whole mineral rights thing that they want Ukraine to pay, but they've added in oil and other energy stuff and making more demands on. We get a cut of Ukraine's revenue going forward in recompense for what was not alone. I can't stand the policy.

[Katie Green]

Back to you from abc. Vice President Vance and wife Usha head to Greenland amid U.S. takeover controversy.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, the second lady. That's a powerful gesture. Is it? Why never.

[Katie Green]

CNBC.

[Joe Getty]

U.

[Katie Green]

S health department plans to slash 10, 000 jobs as RFK Jr. Upends the agency.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I saw that. So I saw a couple interviews with RFK Jr yesterday. So they're going from 80 some thousand employees to 68 or something like that, you know, over 10,000 jobs they're going to eliminate. And he, he says they can do more with less. I hope that's true. I don't doubt it. I mean, how, how can you look at an organization of 80,000 people in the federal government that grew little by little over time and think you couldn't eliminate a lot of jobs?

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, and if somebody said to you, oh no, we're all 80,000 of us are working at maximum efficiency, given the no overlap, lack of incentives and disincentives in government work, you'd laugh at them.

[Joe Getty]

Sure.

[Katie Green]

From Breitbart, Secretary of State Marco Rubio says 350 foreign students have had visas revoked.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, we got to get, we got to play some clips of Marco. He's, he doesn't like the idea of college kids that in this country at our, you know, allowance badmouth in the United States even though we got this whole free speech thing you got to deal with. So let's talk about that later.

[Katie Green]

From Fox News, man arrested in Molotov cocktail attack at Tesla shop in Las Vegas will also face federal charges.

[Jack Armstrong]

Good. Get him.

[Joe Getty]

Because it's domestic terrorism.

[Jack Armstrong]

Do we know anything about this guy? Standard issue progressive nut job weenie. Is he yet another. There was a trend of transgender people setting fire to Tesla's at one point.

[Katie Green]

But he does not appear to be transgender.

[Joe Getty]

But all the things.

[Jack Armstrong]

Maybe he's just really good at it.

[Joe Getty]

I'm all, all the things you could be even if you're gonna be an out there nut job on the edge of legality. Doge is the thing that gets you fired up. Really.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, as Elon put it in the interviews that we're gonna feature, he doesn't blame the Nut jobs so much as those in positions of power who are, you know, disseminating this, this incredibly fiery rhetoric about how Doge is slapping the food out of 90 year old women's mouths when they're trying to bring some sort of efficiency so that 90 year old woman has an easier time getting what's coming to her.

[Katie Green]

From the Washington Post, North Korea claims to have made suicide attack drones that use AI.

[Joe Getty]

Great, I saw that. North Korea has pledged more troops to the battle in Ukraine fight alongside Russians.

[Jack Armstrong]

I wonder what they got. Meanwhile, China is developing their unmanned aerial vehicle drone programs specifically in reference to taking over Taiwan as fast as they can. That is so obviously the wave of the future of how people kill each other, which drives a lot of technology. That and porn maybe.

[Katie Green]

From NBC, Bill Gates says that within 10 years I will replace many doctors and teachers and humans won't be needed for most things.

[Joe Getty]

Human. That now that's a statement. That's a phrase. There's a sentence. Humans won't be needed for most things in 10 years.

[Jack Armstrong]

What sense is that a good thing?

[Joe Getty]

The timeline was in 10 years.

[Katie Green]

Yep.

[Joe Getty]

So my kids are 25 and 23 and humans aren't needed. Yeah, again, like Joe just said, don't you have to have a follow up sentence? So I think perhaps we should look into how the hell we're gonna structure society. Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's like if I came out in a cheery voice and said, hey, technology exists that talk show hosts will soon not be needed. In other news. No wait on effing minutes. I'm one of those, what was it, humans that you mentioned, Billy Boy won't.

[Joe Getty]

Be needed for most people.

[Katie Green]

Things from. This is an opinion piece from the New York.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, I'm useless for most things, but I'm good at some things. It's those things I want to know more about. Anyway, back to you, Katie.

[Katie Green]

Opinion piece from the New York Post. I just like the headline free speech lessons from jackass Jasmine Crockett and anti Israel foreign students.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, she is a jackass. Oh, that reminds me, I want to talk about the Democrats new strategy for regaining power, which is to swear a lot. And, and the problems with that. It's very funny. They're unintentionally hilarious.

[Katie Green]

And finally, the Babylon Bee political neutrality of PBS questioned after new footage of Elmo keying a cyber truck is released.

[Joe Getty]

Air day. I could say this air day. But I was listening to NPR on the drive in today and they had a lawyer on there to give tips to college kids on how to handle it if ICE approaches you, right?

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

That's where most of America is on that topic.

[Jack Armstrong]

Are you getting Harris is out there giving advice to pro Hamas folks about having a burner phone and deleting any pictures?

[Joe Getty]

That doesn't surprise me. That's their job. That's their organization. Npr. That shouldn't be their job as the supposed news for all Americans.

[Jack Armstrong]

They are Marxists. They want to tear down America.

[Joe Getty]

We got clips of the week coming up and a bunch of other stuff.

[Jenny Garth]

Armstrong and Getty, this is Jenny Garth from I do part two. You could have lost 10 pounds already if you started one month ago. So are you ready to start today? Find out if weight loss meds are right for you in just three minutes at tryfh.com try fh.com Results vary based on start weight and adherence to diet, exercise and program goals. Data based on independent study sponsored by Future Health. Future Health is not a health care services provider. Meds are prescribed at providers discretion.

[Joe Getty]

So on Fridays always drive to work listening to music instead of news and I went hardcore Counting Crows today and I watched a long interview with Adam Duritz, the guy that writes the songs, the lead singer from Counting Crows. Some things I was going to talk about later in that that I thought were really interesting. I didn't realize how mentally ill he is. Like really mentally ill. Like dissociates from reality on a regular basis. Incapable of like functioning.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow. Yeah. I just watched the first half of that interview. I didn't get there yet. Yeah. Huh.

[Joe Getty]

That'd be wrong. Explain some of the lyrics in the songs. I mean, if you dissociate from reality and you're kind of floating around in some other dream world. Yeah. You might come up with some wacky lyrics.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, yeah, which is why I have a high tolerance for. For nuttiness in my creative artists. I just, it often goes along. So if they have wackadoodle political views, I just, I don't worry about it much. I just need them to not preach to me.

[Joe Getty]

I just want a good beat that gets my fingers snapping.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's all I do. You do love to dance. Hey, we've got a lot of great stuff to get to, so let's get to it. First, a fond look back at the week that was its cow clips of the week.

[Ashley Akinetti]

This is so utterly ridiculous.

[Joe Getty]

It's just inexplicable. To me, it's a huge disaster. What shape is the US Pentagon building?

[Jack Armstrong]

Isn't it just a square?

[Joe Getty]

An NFHS Network live stream shows Northville.

[Jenny Garth]

Girls Head coach Jim Zullo yanking the.

[Joe Getty]

Ponytail of one of his players.

[Jenny Garth]

Honolulu Police.

[Jack Armstrong]

A 46 year old Gerhard Koenig was hiking the Paulie Trail in Oahu with.

[Joe Getty]

His wife when he struck her in the head with a rock and tried to push her off the ledge.

[Jack Armstrong]

Down goes Frasier.

[Joe Getty]

Down goes Frasier. He's wicked. And he's whistling his way into your heart.

[Jack Armstrong]

Literally. I would like to be called Joseph. Joseph of Illinois.

[Joe Getty]

Can I go with Jack the Great? Just call me Jack the Great.

[Jack Armstrong]

And all I want to see happen.

[Joe Getty]

On my birthday is for Eli to be taken down.

[Jenny Garth]

Yes.

[Jack Armstrong]

And so she needs to tread very carefully. And if you can't take the criticism, get the hell out of politics.

[Katie Green]

Yeah, well, not provocation.

[Joe Getty]

This is friendliness, not provocation. A group chat for the history books. It appears a journalist was accidentally added to a text chain. So of course I didn't see this loser in the group.

[Jack Armstrong]

Nobody was texting war plans. No, that's a lie. He was texting war plans.

[Ashley Akinetti]

There was no classified material that was shared.

[Joe Getty]

I take responsibility. I built the. I built the group. Embarrassing, yes.

[Jack Armstrong]

If this was the case of a.

[Joe Getty]

Military officer, they would be fired. We're having a lot of problems with.

[Katie Green]

The courts because the courts want to pretend they're president.

[Jack Armstrong]

What happens if one of the migrants.

[Joe Getty]

You'Re working with doesn't pay? They're held hostage until they pay up.

[Jack Armstrong]

They eat, they bathe, they use the bathroom in front of each other.

[Katie Green]

Social Security is the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yes or no?

[Ashley Akinetti]

Do you think it's a Ponzi scheme?

[Jack Armstrong]

It's a promise to pay.

[Ashley Akinetti]

As I've said earlier, I believe much of my thinking has evolved.

[Jack Armstrong]

You think that white people should pay reparations?

[Ashley Akinetti]

I've never said that, sir.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yes, you did. I think it was just a reference.

[Ashley Akinetti]

To the idea that we all owe much to the people who came before us.

[Joe Getty]

That's a bizarre way to frame what you tweeted.

[Jack Armstrong]

No kidding. I actually went back to the original Yuri Berliner piece about when he left NPR and was reminded of its eloquence and power. Jim Jordan. During that hearing yesterday, we didn't play the whole clip, but I loved it. He was Talking about the 87 to nothing, Democrats to Republicans at the D.C. editorial offices or whatever it was. And I love the way he illustrated it. He said, it's not 44 to 43, it's not 50 to 30. It's. It's. It's 87 nothing. And you're not biased? I'M not aware of any political bias. Deny, deny, deny. It's well well known road in Washington.

[Joe Getty]

D.C. so Katie had this headline. They arrested a dude in Vegas who had been setting Teslas on fire. Paul Hyon Kim, Korean dude, 36, booked into the Clark County Detention Center. Korean national on 15 counts of Korean heritage. I don't. I don't know that he's national. Including felony charges of arson, destroying property of another, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And domestic terrorism, which probably should be floating around on your social media. To young idiots that this isn't like your normal getting in trouble sort of thing. This is like you go to prison for a really long time trouble. So maybe think this over, right?

[Jack Armstrong]

New sheriff in town, and given the reality of the last several years where you could, say, torch a target or loot as many stores as you wanted, as long as you're waving a BLM banner, the law would not touch you. Or perhaps you're a college student, you could occupy a building, you could beat down a janitor, you could do whatever you wanted and nothing would ever happen to you. And now you're getting charged with terrorism for terrorism. It's got to be shocking to them.

[Joe Getty]

The high end of the charges would be 20 years. None. Nobody ever gets the high end. But even if you got half that, it's a long time to be in prison.

[Jack Armstrong]

Ellen. That's a hell of a hammer to hold over somebody. Probably a poor metaphor if there's a plea bargain afoot.

[Joe Getty]

Authorities said the footage shows Kim shooting a gun at security cameras. So he had thought this through. And multiple Teslas and setting three vehicles on fire using Molotov cocktails. Also spray painting resist across the facility. Resist.

[Jack Armstrong]

Cost cutting and government to make the government more efficient. Yes.

[Joe Getty]

He, Kim had very loose ties to social media groups such as the Communist Party, USA, Revolutionary Communist International, Hidden Palestine and Palestine Action, etc. So he's a communist?

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Okay.

[Jack Armstrong]

Neo Marxists everywhere, they, you know, it's. It's the old strategy. Take every tension point in the US and radicalize the people who are annoyed, whether it's, you know, transgender or up with big government or anything. Or up with electric cars and five minutes later, down with these electric cars.

[Joe Getty]

Right. There's something weird going on with this. I just can't quite put my finger on it. Like what? You get super upset about the United States prosecuting a war you don't believe in. I can see getting pretty angry about that. Yeah, I can't imagine. Or the. The abortion issue, if you believe it. The way it's portrayed, I suppose you could feel, you know, women, that your rights are being taken away. This one I just can't feel how you could ever get murderously angry over trying to cut costs in giant bureaucracies.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, that's. This is the danger of doing what we do the way we do it. Being too hip for the room in a way. In that when. When you're Chuck Schumer or your A's OC Bernie.

[Joe Getty]

Your Bernie Sander.

[Jack Armstrong]

Exactly. When they're pitching the idea that the point of DOGE is to take away old handicapped people's last dollar. What you need to remind yourself because we spend all day reading and researching and that sort of thing. But what you have to remember is that people believe that there is a significant number of people who hears that crazy ass rhetoric and says, oh, that must be true, because they're telling me it's true and they actually believe it.

[Joe Getty]

And if that they're being mobilized for.

[Jack Armstrong]

The good of the government itself and being the most important lobbyist of the government.

[Joe Getty]

Well, if you're Elon Musk, if that old handicapped person has a disabled kid, it's even better to take the money out of their mouth. It feels even sweeter.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh yeah, yeah. Wow. A starving old person and a handicapped kid. Let me, Adam says Elon Musk, according to the rhetoric of, you know, aoc.

[Joe Getty]

Which is a perfect setup for something we're going to do. 20 minutes from now, an hour two, we'll play you some of the interview with the Doge team that aired on Special Report on Fox last night. Talking to Elon and the, the people that are working with him and why they're doing it and what they've found and everything like that. And it's just, it's not that scary. Like I said, I wish this would have aired on 60 Minutes for the whole rest of the country who isn't already on board.

[Jack Armstrong]

You know, it's funny, it just occurred to me the irony of what is so energizing and exciting about that interview, those interviews, it's a bunch of people Brett Bear talks to. What's incredibly energizing is how calm, even handed and reasonable it is. It's not a bunch of half cocked tech bros running around and, you know, their shorts squirting squirt guns at each other and smoking pot. No, it's some of the best, smartest, most serious people in America. Seriously dead seriously. Trying to figure out how to make the federal government more efficient and effective for its citizen citizens. That's what they're doing. Imagine. And now you can quibble about methods and, and some of the details of what they're doing and how they're doing it. And that's absolutely reasonable. We should quibble about everything in this country. That's why our system of government is what it is. But can you imagine, given that, and I swear that is true, and you will believe it if you can stay tuned for next hour or perhaps grab it via podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand later. But, but if you accept that it is true that these very, very smart, very, very serious people are trying to make the federal government more efficient, affordable and effective for the citizens, picture the level of hypocrisy it takes to be against that, to be so in bed with the federal bureaucracy, because that's how you get your power and influence that you are fighting against. An effort to make the government more efficient and responsive. That's evil. That is selfishness on a level that's, I mean, it's, it's awesome. It's, it's awe inspiring how incredibly dishonest and deceitful these people are.

[Joe Getty]

Kind of a side note to how they caught this guy, which worries me, this sort of thing, because this is going to be used against you and I at some point. So how they caught this guy. Vehicle navigation records, because so many cars have some sort of GPS thing in there that feeds back to somewhere and is stored and then also license plate readers, which I don't remember ever voting for. So everywhere you park a car, somebody of some organization, paid by somebody for some reason drives through and reads all the license plates in the parking lot to keep track of where everybody is all the time. When did we have a national discussion about this? I don't remember anybody running on this. Just kind of happened. So between that and they're keeping track of where you're going through the vehicle records that, I don't know, Toyota or GM turns over or feeds to the government or I don't know how that works either. But anyway, between those two things, they.

[Jack Armstrong]

Could find a subpoena.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, pretty easily. We're all tracked constantly with information that the government has easy access to. I, I don't, I don't understand why this isn't more of a thing.

[Jack Armstrong]

And if this were a story about China, we'd be saying, oh my God. Right? Imagine.

[Joe Getty]

Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'm glad they caught this scum. But yeah, we need to take a serious look at this as a people. And you know what's, really, as a conservative, really, really Frustrating. Angering to me is that you tolerate this incredibly high level of lawlessness, especially in your blue states. Then you say, well, these surveillance systems are necessary because of, you know, all the lawlessness, right? How about you enforce the damn law, including like no shoplifting. But then you won't need this.

[Joe Getty]

It wasn't that very many years ago though. I could have driven around all weekend to work back, shopping mall, wherever. Nobody would have had any data on that at all. Zero. Not a human being would have known where I was. Now it's all kept track of I.

[Jack Armstrong]

Was having you followed. But technically I see your point.

[Joe Getty]

We got Mailbag on the way. Stay here.

[Ashley Akinetti]

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[Joe Getty]

I didn't see this. Hansen was just telling me about Ichiro Suzuki coming out to throw out a first pitch in full uniform as an old man. Older man now, yesterday takes the mound full wind up, full pitch, 85 mile hour fastball at the catcher.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow.

[Joe Getty]

As opposed to the old jog out there and your khakis and lob it in crowd went wild. That's so awesome.

[Jack Armstrong]

Ichiro bringing it. What a great hitter. Here's your freedom loving quote of the day. The great Eric Hoffer sent along by alert listener. Threw it away. Sorry about that, but thank you for sending it. Eric Hoffer. The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, that's rough if you think about that and how. How often that's been denied throughout human history. How many people. How many people have lived with any bit of freedom throughout human history? Very few.

[Jack Armstrong]

What the Chinese covet drones say, Michael, silence your soul's desire for freedom. That's correct. Yeah. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, that hurts.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, hey, good advice. Okay, we'll do Mailbag. Drop us a note Mailbag at Armstrong and getty.com Best radio ever, writes Pat Shameless. Plug department. Today's one more Thing podcast. That was yesterday. This is the most hilarious gut busting segment I've heard in decades.

[Joe Getty]

Okay, give me a second to try to remember what it was about. I haven't got the slightest idea.

[Jack Armstrong]

All right, come on now. Come on. Between Michael's trying to curse. Oh, and I won't give away anything else. Katie's amazing family announcement. Oh, yeah, listen to the One More Thing podcast. Jack and Joe's completely irrational disdain for palenta. I've never had so many laughs Packed into 12 minute podcasts. You guys are the best.

[Joe Getty]

You're.

[Jack Armstrong]

You're too kind. Thanks, Path. Anyway, yeah, so we do one more segment after the radio show is done. It's the One More Thing podcast, and sometimes it has swears in it. All the promoting I'm gonna do. Steve from beautiful, beautiful Lake Oswego, Oregon, writes the full context of The Vin Scully Anyway, Owen 2 audio, which we love so much. Anyway, Owen 2 then was talking about socialism in Venezuela and Hugo Chavez and his daughter and that sort of thing. He was making reference to the home country of the pitcher at the time who had gotten out of Venezuela to come to the US to play for the Dodgers.

[Joe Getty]

Great, great.

[Jack Armstrong]

So that's how he got started on that theme.

[Joe Getty]

And who's the richest person in Venezuela? The daughter of Hugo Chavez. And who do you think is the richest person in Venezuela? The daughter of Hugo Chavez.

[Jack Armstrong]

Hello.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, but what's the count anyway? Oh, and two.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, that's right.

[Joe Getty]

Great story about economic structures, but what's the freaking count?

[Jack Armstrong]

Love, Vin Skull.

[Joe Getty]

I know. That is so good.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, my God.

[Joe Getty]

Anyway, Owen 2.

[Jack Armstrong]

I, Joe Getty, have frequently said that the time of the humans is coming to an end and we should welcome a planet of the beavers. The beavers have begun, writes John. And he shows. He sends us a picture of a logoed car. It's wrapped. From the Belching Beaver Brewery, which I assume is in Oregon. The beavers have already begun. All right.

[Joe Getty]

You know, that's what I'm going to say at your funeral. I assume I'll outlive you as you're 10 days older than me. They put you in the ground, I'll look down at your casket and I'll say, Anyway, Owen 2. Anyway, Owen 2.

[Jack Armstrong]

That would. If there is life after death, I will crack up in, well, heaven. Or more likely, anyway.

[Joe Getty]

Yes, Michael, you gotta, like, drop something in the casket and then say that.

[Jack Armstrong]

Like a flower or something.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, exactly. Put a daisy in there and then.

[Jack Armstrong]

Anyway, let's see. How much time do we have, Michael? Practically none too. Let's see. David writes, I heard Jack asking why the government uses old computer systems. Can't speak for the government in particular in particularly. But I can relay this tale a McCogg in one of the big railroads we use dozens of systems that all refer to a system with a copyright date of 1980. They tried to upgrade. It all went completely sideways. I've got to Summarize here. Full 24 hour shutdown of everything took place so the switchover could occur. Just terrible. So we switched back to the old system before the end of the 24 hours. If we had those kinds of problems, all we do is move trains with thousands of employees. I can't imagine how impossible the Fed systems are. I'll bet.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, well, I'll bet Elon's got a pretty good idea of how that's working right now and they're going to try to make it better. Speaking of Elon, we're going to hear from Elon and the Doge boys from an interview that they did on Fox. It's really interesting. That'll be an hour too. I hope you can stick around or get it through the podcast.

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