I Was Talking About You, Not To You! Stop It!

Summary

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Armstrong & Getty On Demand – Episode Summary

Episode Title: "I Was Talking About You, Not To You! Stop It!"
Date: October 22, 2025
Hosts: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty
Guest/Contributor: Katie Green
Theme: Reflections on AI companionship, generational shifts in technology, political culture, social acceptance, drug policy, and current news events with the hosts’ signature blend of humor, candor, and insight.

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Main Theme and Purpose

This episode dives into the growing role of artificial intelligence (AI) in daily life, using personal stories and banter to explore emotional connections with AI assistants, what our online searches say about us, and how societal trends—including the political climate, cancel culture, and drug policy—are affecting America. The tone is conversational and humorous, while also grappling with serious cultural shifts.

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Key Topics & Insights

1. Humanizing Artificial Intelligence

[01:12–02:43]

• Joe shares his routine interactions with Grok (Tesla's AI, with a female voice), comparing it to having a "friend in the car."
• Jack notes even “AI skeptics” can’t help but feel emotionally affected or acknowledged by a cheery AI, suggesting, "I don't think human beings can resist that attraction... especially the masses."
  — Jack Armstrong [02:16]
• Anecdotes about accidentally triggering Siri and joking “I was talking about you, not to you!”
  — Jack Armstrong [02:02]
• The conversation highlights how even critical thinkers feel a reflexive bond with friendly AI interfaces.

2. Revealing Ourselves Through AI Searches

[02:43–06:44]

• The hosts and Katie Green humorously share their most recent non-work-related AI searches:
  • Jack’s: gas fireplace info, currency symbols, animal species that eat their young (prompted by a video he sent to Katie).
  • Joe’s: espresso with cream, texting abbreviations from his son, spellings like “whose” that suddenly seem odd.
  • Katie’s: Fall decorating ideas, “pregnancy pain” remedies, and “convert this dog into a royal painting.”
• The segment lampoons generational gaps in tech use, with Joe admitting, “I have to go on ChatGPT and figure out [texting abbreviations]” [04:32].
• Notable comedic moments surface, such as Jack's fascination with mundane queries:
  — Joe Getty: "You are a fun guy." [06:37]

3. Viral Children & The Allure of Cute

[06:49–07:35]

• Katie introduces a viral clip of a little girl scolding her golden retriever for stealing snacks: "Use your inside voice!" [07:18]
• Hosts express mock allergies to cuteness:
  — Jack Armstrong: "I'm allergic to cute. And I'm having a reaction." [07:26]

4. Political Commentary: Democratic Schism & Feminization of America

[07:38–12:36]

• Jack discusses the trend of major Democratic donors withholding funds due to party divisions and “crackpot candidates.” (Referencing Politico, NYT, WSJ articles; DNC’s relatively poor fundraising.)
• The duo returns to what they term “the great feminization of America,” arguing cancel culture and left-leaning groupthink derive from a desire for group acceptance over truth (leveraging ideas from Helen Andrews’s writing). — Jack Armstrong: “All cancellations are feminine. Cancel culture is simply what women do when there are enough of them to get in a given organization…” [11:13]
  • Emphasize the rarity of heated intra-party debate on the left vs. the right:
    — Joe Getty: "Are there such things on the left?...If you know of one, push it my way." [10:44]
• Relates these tendencies to broader political fragmentation, especially among Democrats.

5. Drug Policies and Compassion vs. Enablement

[12:36–18:59]

• Oregon’s struggles with decriminalization: Katie shares a clip from a young, homeless Portland addict who criticizes harm-reduction outreach as enabling rather than helping: — Portland Addict: “It’s enabling, actually makes it more harmful…once people get comfortable…why do anything else?” [15:19]
• Jack laments misplaced compassion, links the approach to “the feminization of America” by refusing to impose negative consequences on bad behavior.
• Discussion of scam rehab centers, marihuana’s stronger potency, and statistics linking THC to increased car accident deaths. — "A new study found over 40% of drivers who died in a car accident... had elevated levels of THC." [18:14]
• They warn against predatory addiction treatment and lax enforcement.

6. Israel–Hamas Ceasefire & International Politics

[20:02–23:40]

• Clips and analysis of Senator JD Vance’s visit to Israel, reassuring that the peace process is “in a very good place,” while hosts remain skeptical about the practical path forward (e.g., a new government in Gaza, the viability of international peacekeeping). — JD Vance: "I want to say that there is this weird attitude...where there’s almost this desire to root for failure..." [20:40]

7. The Gaza Genocide Narrative & Ideological Signaling

[23:38–26:43]

• Jack and Joe dig into Steven Pinker's critical piece on unsubstantiated genocide accusations against Israel, drawing a parallel to the American right's stolen election narrative. — Jack Armstrong: "'The Gaza genocide...has become the left's equivalent of the stolen election for the American right.'" [25:06]
  • They stress that such claims are often about signaling allegiance, not facts.
  • Jack: “You can’t be going around throwing around the term genocide…when all you’re saying is I’m anti-Israel. That’s pretty overboard." [26:02]

8. The White House Ballroom Controversy

[26:48–29:44]

• Clarifies that Trump’s new ballroom addition will not “tear down” the historic White House, countering media and political hysteria. — Jack Armstrong: "No, no, absolutely not...It’s just the East Wing is historic, but...they're tearing down the walls so they can tie the new structure into it." [27:10]
• Jokes about potential Trumpian décor (“More than you can believe, I’m sure. Gold silverware, gold pictures...”) [30:14]
• Concludes it’s a non-issue vs. America’s actual problems.

9. Odds & Ends: Tech Scams, Tesla, Dr. Pepper Sausage, and Modern Parenting

[32:38–35:55]

• Story: Woman uses a dating app to con elderly men and burglarize their homes; discussion of modern dangers and trusting relationships.
• Tesla introduces a cheaper Model 3.
• Dr. Pepper-flavored sausage—“No one knows what that’s made from either.” [33:40]
• Reflection: Raising teens is harder now because of ever-present screens; Jack and Joe lament how “TikTok in the classroom” is the new normal. — Joe Getty: "There are girls sitting in class with their phones out... watching TikTok videos... while the teacher's talking." [37:04]

10. Closing Thoughts & Memorable Quotes

[36:12–37:53]

• Final thoughts from each team member, including:
  • Joking about eating Costco pie as protest against uncooperative self-checkouts.
  • Katie’s aside: “Don’t talk to us about desecrating the White House, old lady.” (re: Hillary Clinton) [36:57]
  • Jack on the decline in trans-identification as evidence for social contagions:
    — “Reminder: people got canceled for suggesting this was a social contagion... Question authority. Leftist authority especially.” [37:40]

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• "I was talking about you, not to you." — Jack Armstrong playfully scolding Siri [02:02]
• "Even guys like us have an emotional reaction...as if it's a human being." — Joe Getty on AI [02:07]
• "All cancellations are feminine. Cancel culture is simply what women do when there are enough of them..." — Jack Armstrong referencing Helen Andrews’s essay [11:13]
• "If you make it really comfortable for people to be addicted, they get more addicted." — Jack Armstrong [16:31]
• "A new study found over 40% of drivers who died in a car accident... had elevated levels of THC." — Joe Getty [18:14]
• "You can’t be going around throwing around the term genocide…when all you’re saying is I’m anti-Israel. That’s pretty overboard." — Jack Armstrong [26:02]
• "Question authority. Leftist authority especially." — Jack Armstrong [37:40]
• "There are girls sitting in class with their phones out... watching TikTok videos... while the teacher's talking." — Joe Getty [37:04]

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Important Segments & Timestamps

• AI and Emotional Connection: [01:12–02:43]
• Sharing AI Searches: [02:43–06:44]
• Cute Viral Kids: [06:49–07:35]
• Democratic Donor Discontent & Feminization of America: [07:38–12:36]
• Drug Policy & Homelessness: [12:36–18:59]
• Israel–Hamas & International Affairs: [20:02–23:40]
• Genocide Narrative Discussion: [23:38–26:43]
• White House Ballroom ‘Controversy’: [26:48–29:44]
• Modern Scams & Parenting: [32:38–35:55]
• Final Thoughts: [36:12–37:53]

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Quick Takeaways

• Armstrong & Getty continue their signature, sharp-edged banter on technology, evolving social norms, and political culture, punctuated by moments of genuine reflection and self-deprecating humor.
• The episode’s centerpiece is a relatable look at AI’s infiltration into daily life, blurring lines between tools and companions.
• Throughout, they challenge conventional narratives—from political donor splits, to drug policy, to “the feminization of America,” to social contagion—pairing skepticism with stories and jokes.
• Serious stories (e.g., addiction’s toll, the politics of Gaza, exploitative rehabs) are woven through with lighthearted camaraderie.

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This summary provides a comprehensive overview of content, tone, and spirit—perfect for both regular listeners and curious newcomers.

Transcript

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[Jack Armstrong]

Broadcasting live from the.

[Joe Getty]

Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George.

[Jack Armstrong]

Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong. Wrong and get it.

[Joe Getty]

You're just joining us, we got into a big conversation about AI and Grok and me, my conversations with Grok, because Tesla has it in there. And so I use it almost every day, asking it a question about something and it's a female voice and we have conversations and then I rejoin the conversations later and it's like having a friend in the car. It's really weird.

[Jack Armstrong]

And we were talking about how even guys like us, who are like super critical of the idea of becoming more detached from real life, having fewer real friends, fewer real relationships, having a computer girlfriend and watching porn all the time, I mean, it's just, it's all incredibly unhealthy. But we were talking about how when, you know, Siri or Grok or, or I use chat GPT fair amount. Oh my God, my Siri lit up. No, I don't want talk to you.

[Joe Getty]

Stop it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Leave me alone. I would say I was talking about you, not to you.

[Joe Getty]

Stop it.

[Jack Armstrong]

And how even guys like us have an emotional reaction when you have an exchange with you know who and they say a cheery thank you. Or in Jack's case, said, hey, if you really like that song, you gotta check out the live version. It's amazing. And in spite of ourselves, we have this emotional reaction to it, as if it's a human being. And I don't think human beings can, can resist that, that attraction. I don't know how it, how it would happen, especially the masses, because most people don't think about this stuff at all.

[Joe Getty]

Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. Anyway, so I was thinking Katie, and this is why I cracked myself up. I was going to say, okay, everybody has to reveal their last three AI searches.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, Boy. And.

[Jack Armstrong]

And I looked at mine and they are do I need a vent free gas insert for my gas fireplace? And it explained to me vent free and what that means and stuff. Also. What the hell is this currency. Saw a price that was listed in Indian rupees and I didn't recognize the. The sign. But then. Then this one. This is my third to last one. How many species of animals eat their young?

[Katie Green]

Such a guy. Search.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, remember I sent you that video of a big alligator eating a little alligator?

[Katie Green]

Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

And. And Katie, you replied I could have gone the rest of my life without seeing that.

[Katie Green]

I think I stand by that.

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[Jack Armstrong]

And I was going to reply the. The number of species that will eat their young or eat smaller members of that species. There are lots and lots of them. But I decided no, she's a pregnant lady. You don't need to argue in favor of eating your young. So I didn't. Excuse me. But that's why I was looking for that. Turns out lots and lots of species. Lots of them.

[Joe Getty]

So I just did mine and eliminating show stuff that I've done today specifically for the show. Just my own personal last three espresso with cream options. I was trying to figure out if people drank espresso with cream or not.

[Jack Armstrong]

Isn't that called something different? I don't know. Meaning not fancy.

[Joe Getty]

Meaning of a couple of letters in a text. Because this happens to me all the time where a young person, usually my son, texts me something. It's just a couple letters. I don't have any idea what it means. So I have to go on chat GPT and figure out you'd be home for dinner tonight. RF Right, Exactly. Actually BFS for sure.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

He's always hitting me with that. And then because I got lost the other day on this is who's a word W H O S E. Is that right? Because I voice texted and put on there and for some reason you know how sometimes a word doesn't look right?

[Katie Green]

Right?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. And it turns out it's okay. But like just all of a sudden it hits you like that's not right. I've never seen that before.

[Jack Armstrong]

Or if you say the word three times in a row no longer sounds like a word to you. It just sounds like a collection of noises. Right?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Katie Green]

My last three that are not work involved Fall decorating ideas.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh nice.

[Katie Green]

Pregnancy pain. We'll say when the girls hurt. If you know what I mean.

[Joe Getty]

Remedies.

[Jack Armstrong]

Boob fairy comes to visit and sometimes it's uncomfortable.

[Katie Green]

Yeah, they're killing me. And convert this dog into a royal painting.

[Jack Armstrong]

Into a royal painting.

[Katie Green]

That's a picture of my friend's dog. And turned it into like a dapper royal knight.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow, that's great. That sounds funny.

[Joe Getty]

One of my searchings searches was what's canyon piercing? Because I heard somebody reference that the other day and I didn't know what it was. That's.

[Jack Armstrong]

Can you say it on the air?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, it's the. Above your butt cleft. That little cliff there. Putting a. Putting a bar through right above there. It's called a canyon. I guess it's kind of popular. It's like a step beyond the trance tramp stamp. If you ever are observing a woman from that angle, for some reason canyon.

[Jack Armstrong]

Unpierced ladies, for some reason, you're observing Grand Canyon, if you will.

[Joe Getty]

Depends on the person.

[Jack Armstrong]

Your canyon is grand.

[Joe Getty]

Anyway. Yeah. So that's a piercing. And so. Yeah.

[Katie Green]

And that's another thing my life could have done without Jack.

[Joe Getty]

Canyon piercing.

[Jack Armstrong]

One of my searches was asparagus storage tips.

[Joe Getty]

You are a fun guy.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow.

[Joe Getty]

You are.

[Jack Armstrong]

Your life on the edge. Your life.

[Joe Getty]

It's like. It's like being in the circus. It's so much fun.

[Jack Armstrong]

All right, why don't we do this? Katie brought this to us. Speaking of children and that sort of thing, does this need any setup? The little girl clip did you like so much?

[Katie Green]

She's arguing with her dog about her snacks.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's a golden retriever. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

No, you took my snack. Yes, you did. I saw you. You can't eat everything. Sunny. No, you haven't. Use your inside V. That is absolutely awesome.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, my God.

[Announcer]

Use your inside voice.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, is that what she said?

[Katie Green]

Yeah, inside voice.

[Jack Armstrong]

God, that is. Oh, no. I'm breaking out in hives. I'm addicted. I'm allergic to cute. And I'm having a reaction.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, that is super cute.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, that's spectacular. All right. All right. Oh, so just to touch on something we were talking about earlier about, oh, I want to get into the insurance costs and Bernie Sanders. I agree with him for once. Maybe later on in the hour. But in my looking at various major left to left center publications, there are several articles out today all saying essentially the same thing. I wonder if it has something to do with Mamdani. But they're all saying in Politico, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, we gotta lose our left flank. Democrats, they're crazy that we're. We're running crackpot candidates. We've gotta stop. And I came across this in the Journal. Some of Their political writers who are not as conservative as you might think writing for the Journal. But the headline is Democratic Donors Sit on Sidelines as Party schism persists. The RN, the Republican National Committee, had $86 million in cash sitting around at the beginning of last month, or this month rather. 86 million. It's 12 million for the DNC. The big donors are closing their checkbooks and sitting on their hands. Too many crazy people in your party. And what's amazing is how few people were willing to say that until recently.

[Katie Green]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

And also big donors who. There's plenty of capitalists who are Democrats, but oh yeah, the chunk of the Democratic Party that is anti capitalism, they're probably not that excited to fund.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right, right. And to return to the theme once again, the great feminization of America that we've been talking about for a couple of days and how cancel culture is about ostracizing somebody who says something we don't like. And you don't argue it out with them. You cancel them. You declare them untouchable. You say anybody who goes to coffee with them is a bad person. A very feminine squeezing somebody out of the friend group thing. You combine that with the fact that on the left, especially, women tend to be more acceptance motivated than truth motivated. They want to be accepted in the group. So it makes perfect sense that it took a very long time for progressives, or I should just say Democrats who have that acceptance lens to stand up and say, excuse me, the group I'm in is wrong. And I think a lot of us agree. Those people have been running the show. They've been bullying everybody. They need to stop. Let's all stand up to them. Takes a while to do that on the left in a way that it doesn't on the right. Hell, we're arguing with each other all the time on the right saying, no, you're wrong, that's not true, or that's not going to work. The whole acceptance thing on the left doesn't permit that.

[Joe Getty]

I've been saying this for a couple of years. I have a lot of right leaning podcasts I listen to where the people regularly don't agree with. I mean, it's like one of the things that makes the podcast interesting. Are there such a thing on the left? I'm not aware of them. Where you have, you know, a mainstream Democrat and a progressive that don't agree on these subjects. Like happens in the right wing podcast. If you, if you know of one, push it my way. I'd love to. I'd love to listen to it.

[Jack Armstrong]

I just think that's further proof of the of the premise that I can remember her name Helen Andrews had in her great feminization piece that we talked about at length yesterday, hour two of the show. If you want to grab the podcast Armstrong and Getty on Demand. But that's that's part of it is that women, generally speaking, I can find this really quickly. All cancellations are feminine. Cancel culture is simply what women do when there are enough of them to get in a given organization or field. Where is that? It's just so well explained that women prize acceptance and cohesion. There it is. Substance fits. Everything you think of as wokeness involves prioritizing the feminine over the masculine. And think about this in the context of moderate lefties standing up to far left lefties. Empathy over rationality, safety over risk, cohesion over competition.

[Joe Getty]

On that one, couldn't you just go with the premise of the movie Mean Girls? Just that with girls you're just. You're either part of the in group or you're ostracized.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right?

[Joe Getty]

That doesn't exist at the same level for guys at all.

[Jack Armstrong]

No. No.

[Joe Getty]

So I thought that Oregon had done the experiment in allowing people to do hard drugs and decided it was a bad idea. But they're still facilitating hard drug use in a variety of ways for some reason.

[Jack Armstrong]

What's really interesting is if you talk to the people doing the hard drugs, they sound like conservatives. Wow.

[Joe Getty]

I want to hear that. Among other things. Coming up. Stay here.

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[Joe Getty]

Guy running for The Senate in Maine has a Nazi tattoo.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah, he's actually Exhibit 1 in the whole we gotta stop running crazy people piece in Politico by Jonathan Martin.

[Joe Getty]

What kind of Nazi tattoo is it a swastika?

[Jack Armstrong]

No, you know what? I actually don't think it is. It's. He was a Marine, and it's like a death's head thing that they got as Marines, not knowing. It's reminiscent of the death's head brigade that Hitler.

[Joe Getty]

It's a totem Kopf, a German word typically referring to a image of a skull and crossbones. Okay, so it's not necessarily right.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, he's got plenty of actual sins to account for. He's a very Beto o' Rourke, like, character. There's another guy in Texas now who's going to be the new Beto. But Jonathan Martin's point was you can't fall in love with these people without vetting them or whatever just because they talk a good game. Or, like, Mumdani's charming, great, but he's a fricking communist. Anyway, so speaking of progressive policies that don't work, Katie, we're about to hear from a young lady in Portland, I believe. Tell us about her.

[Katie Green]

Yeah, she's probably early 20s. Beautiful girl, actually. But she's clearly sitting in a woodsy homeless encampment and clearly an addict.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. Do harm reduction people come out here and give you supplies.

[Portland Addict Interviewee]

Like harm reduction? Like the clean syringes and stuff like that? Yeah, there's a couple of them, but then there's a few of them that came out in a van, and they start passing out stuff like pipes and. And snorting kits and like that? Why is making it so much easier and more comfortable for people to be like, oh, okay, now I don't even have to go anywhere. Stuff like that is definitely enabling, and it doesn't help. It's enabling actually makes it more harmful. Because once people get comfortable enough doing stuff a certain way, like, why do anything else?

[Joe Getty]

So obvious? No, back in the day, the original thing with needles was spreading HIV around. Okay, you could make an argument for that. But beyond that, what's the argument for the paraphernalia handing out to hard drug users?

[Jack Armstrong]

It's so strange. I don't know. I mean, because you could get, I don't know, a cold or herpes or Covid by sharing a straw you're snorting meth with. I don't. I don't know.

[Joe Getty]

I don't think it has anything to do with that. It's Some sort of. I don't know what it is. Misplaced compassion, I guess.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. This is compassion, I think, would be the answer. It's yet another great example of the feminization of America where people have completely lost track of the fact that you have to have negative consequences for bad behavior. You'll get more of it. That girl's like, no, you're enabling people. And she didn't make the point, but I thought she was going to say, and if you make it really comfortable for people to be addicted, they get more addicted. And it gets harder and harder to get off the stuff.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, I had a story.

[Jack Armstrong]

Something.

[Joe Getty]

I had a story I was going to get to. Maybe I'll do it tomorrow about these rehabs that are ripping people off. Not only do the rehabs that aren't trying to rip you off fail, like 99% of the time.

[Jack Armstrong]

There's.

[Joe Getty]

There's a whole bunch of them that are. They're designed to rip you off. They're not even.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, that's funny. That's. I've got a trio of stories that's. Number one, drug rehabs lure in patients for insurance money, then leave them on straight.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. So rehabs don't work when they're trying, and they're legit. They very, very rarely work. These are just trying to steal your money.

[Jack Armstrong]

Huge number of scammers. Yeah. Wall Street Journal, more marijuana users. Yes.

[Joe Getty]

So sick and twisted because you're almost always taking the money of, well, an insurance company, but you got a husband or a wife or a mom or a dad who are just, you know, they. They've been misled into believing these rehabs are what fix people. And all the time. And it's just. It's just tragic that you're doing that.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, they spend their life savings.

[Joe Getty]

It's.

[Jack Armstrong]

And these evil. Yeah. Yeah. And then you got this headline, More marijuana users are crash dummies high on Pot. Drivers are contributing to more highway accident deaths. New study found that more than 40% of drivers who died in car accidents in at least one US county over the last six years, 40% had elevated levels of THC in their.

[Joe Getty]

Really? That's interesting now.

[Jack Armstrong]

It is.

[Joe Getty]

Of course. I need to know, is that higher a lot by a lot than it used to be before it was legal.

[Jack Armstrong]

Over the last six years anyway. And then an article asking, did pot make the Dallas Ice shooter? You remember that A couple of weeks ago, he was anti ice and he ended up killing some illegal immigrants. Did pot make the Dallas Ice shooter psychotic? He was a heavy pot user and was starting to develop psychotic symptoms. Heavy pot? He's absolutely makes psychosis more likely one.

[Joe Getty]

And pot's way stronger than it used to be so it'd be easier to get there. Well, that's troubling.

[Jack Armstrong]

Armstrong and Getty.

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[Jack Armstrong]

Meantime, Vice President Vann's touching down in.

[Announcer]

Israel, denying reports he was dispatched, quote, to try to keep Mr. Netanyahu from resuming an all out assault against Hamas after weekend attacks prompted each side to.

[Jack Armstrong]

Accuse the other of violating the ceasefire.

[JD Vance]

My visit had nothing to do with events of the past 48 hours. We had actually tried to plan this visit, frankly, months ago and now we thought this would be a good time to do it.

[Joe Getty]

So that's J.D. vance who was in Israel yesterday. They're trying to hold together the ceasefire and both sides are saying they are still committed. So that's good, I guess. Here's a little more from JD Vance in Israel yesterday.

[JD Vance]

I want to say that there is this weird attitude I've sensed in the American media, in the Western media, where there's almost this desire to root for failure, that every time something bad happens, that every time that there's an act of violence, there's this inclination to say, oh, this is the end of the ceasefire, this is the end of the peace plan. It's not the end. It is in fact exactly how this is going to have to happen. When you have people who hate each other, who have been fighting against each other for a very long time. We are doing very well. We are in a very good place. We're going to have to keep working on it, but I think we have the team to do exactly that.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. And I heard him say, we have many countries that have already offered to help in the international peacekeeping force. Okay, let's see how quickly that comes together with actual human beings on the ground with guns, which they'll have to have, and some sort of rules of engagement, and somebody will have to be in charge of it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, and, you know, the, the Trump always chickens out thing was completely silly. Trump does frequently over promise, though. And there are a bunch of examples like the investment deals. Japan's gonna invest $3 billion in the United States, and South Korea, as part of our trade deal, is gonna invest 5 trillion. And if you look into it, it's like that's two and a half percent of their gdp. It's more than they spend on defense. It's just, it's never going to happen. But Trump hangs the trophy on his wall and moves on. And the problem with this situation and JD there's no way in hell I'm rooting for this to fail. I'm rooting for it to succeed. He got the Emiratis and all of the Gulf states to agree, yes, this is a good plan. We, we're backing it partly because of the force of his personality and a hell of a good job by his team. Hell of a good job. Historic job. But here's the question. Do the Arab Muslim actors have the will to actually do the ugly, dirty stuff it's going to take to make this work? That's where my doubt comes in.

[Joe Getty]

So I heard somebody pointing out today that we are still in phase one, and phase one's got a ways to go. So don't get all worried about phase two, because I was talking about phase two yesterday, which includes Hamas laying down their arms, the installation of a government, and the arrival of a peacekeeping force. I'm glad that they're saying they're still in phase one, because all three of those things seem like they're a long way off. I mean, especially the installation of a new government.

[Jack Armstrong]

What?

[Joe Getty]

Who. How many people?

[Jack Armstrong]

What? Well, is it a president going to be that technocratic council of peace? But, but, you know, hell of a lot of questions. I hope it works out.

[Joe Getty]

I want it to work out. I wanted to get to this, Steven.

[Jack Armstrong]

The utter defeat of Hamas would, would accomplish it. It's the only choice. I will be saying that in another couple of years, by the way, if you ask me.

[Joe Getty]

So somehow I have in my mind that author Steven, Steven Pinker is a lefty. I don't know why. Why do I have that in My mind.

[Jack Armstrong]

He's a humanist. He's like a secular humanist.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Maybe it's because he's written a lot of. Has he written anti God stuff? I don't know. Anyway, I have in my mind he's a lefty. Maybe I'm just wrong because I went to Amazon to look up his books because I'm about to quote him and Enlightenment now is one of his famous books, and just took that off the shelf the other day, which is just a fantastic book. And about how. And he writes, which seems conservative to me, endlessly about how much better the world is now than it was 50 years ago or 100 years ago or 200 years ago. I mean, just so much better in every category. Quality of life all around the world.

[Jack Armstrong]

Western civilization and market economies because of.

[Joe Getty]

Free market economies in Western civilization. And, you know, the poor people are way, way less poor and blah, blah, blah. So he's a big fan of that. But he's got a piece out today. Some of you are going to hate this, but I. He said they don't believe it either. Gaza's genocide accusation. And he writes the Gaza genocide. I never know how to say this word. C, A, L, U, M, N, Y. I can read it, but I can't say it. How do you say that?

[Jack Armstrong]

Calumny, I believe.

[Joe Getty]

Is that how you say it?

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, somebody look it up.

[Joe Getty]

What would it be? A good.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's the way I've always said it, but I don't use the word in real life.

[Joe Getty]

What's your best substitute for it? We'll just substitute a different word.

[Jack Armstrong]

Disaster. Cataclysm.

[Joe Getty]

Okay. A situation, negative situation. The Gaza genocide situation has become the left's equivalent of the stolen election for the American right. It's not based on much fact. It's just allegiance. Precisely because. Shows your ideological direction. It's more about that than anything else. And I happen to believe that's true. I know somebody believe. Hardcore stolen election. But I think it's more of a signal that, no, I'm really, really on this side. And he says that it's true of the genocide, although it's just such a horrible thing to make your. I'm gonna pretend I believe this because it signals what side of the argument I'm on to call something a genocide.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right. Oh, by the way, I stand corrected. I was thinking of a different word. A calumny is the making of false and defamatory statements about someone in order to damage their reputation. Slander, in other words.

[Joe Getty]

Okay, so the slander that is the Gaza genocide is just like the stolen election. It's more of claiming a direction of who you're with and who you're against, and that's pretty awful. His. His point. You can't be going around throwing around the term genocide or calling people, accusing people of committing a genocide when all you're saying is, you know, I'm anti Israel, that's pretty over. But that's where we are. That's where we are. In our discussions. You have to, you know, everybody's either got to be Hitler or you got to take everything to the nth degree.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right? Yeah. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Not good for.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's not good for anything.

[Joe Getty]

Anything. It's not good for anything. Yes. You summarized it well. Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, by the way, kind of a stray topic here. Unless you're. Were you in the middle of something? I don't know. Okay. We were talking about the. The ballroom that the President is trying to. Well, he's not trying to.

[Joe Getty]

Please.

[Jack Armstrong]

Holding on to the White House.

[Joe Getty]

Please settle this for me. That's two days in a row on MSNBC that they've made this their lead story about the horror of tearing down the historic building that is the White House. Now, is this happening or not?

[Jack Armstrong]

No, no, absolutely not. So the White House was built way back in the day, burnt partly to the ground in 1812, et cetera, et.

[Joe Getty]

Cetera, by the British. Never forget.

[Jack Armstrong]

Teddy Roosevelt built the West Wing. Okay, so that was, you know, early 20th century. Taft made the Oval Office. Oval probably fit him because he's a big old boy.

[Joe Getty]

He just wanted a round room. Made him look less fat.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right, Exactly. Was slimming. FDR added the entire East Wing and included an indoor pool for himself. Truman gutted and redid the entire White House. Nixon famously added a bowling alley. Obama added a.

[Joe Getty]

That's what we needed at that time. We were in a cold war. A bowling alley.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right. Obama added a basketball court. And Trump is building a ballroom at no expense to the taxpayers, attached to the East Wing, which was built by FDR back in the day.

[Joe Getty]

Although this ballroom is going to be ginormous.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's a big room.

[Joe Getty]

Now, I. Somebody said. Did you say it, Hanson. That it's square footage. It's bigger than the White House, than the mansion. Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

I believe that to be true.

[Joe Getty]

Well, you know, I, I'm not making an argument of any kind, but it is going to look way different. You add on something to your house that's bigger than your house, that's going to be the dominant feature. So the dominant feature of the most Famous house in the world is going to be the ballroom, I guess.

[JD Vance]

No.

[Jack Armstrong]

Unless you're, like, standing next to it. Because, like, when you look at the White House from the front, you don't see the East Wing and West Wing. Really. You just see the mansion.

[Joe Getty]

True.

[Jack Armstrong]

They're, like, super hidden.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

So I don't know how prominent it's going to be. Honestly, I don't.

[Joe Getty]

I don't care.

[Jack Armstrong]

My God, we have so much bigger problems in the US in the world than this damn ballroom. But the Democrats are just desperate to rally some everybody up around some issue. They keep trying and keep failing.

[Joe Getty]

It's going to be decent size. 900 people.

[Jack Armstrong]

I read yesterday that's like a big hotel ballroom. Yeah. That's a big joint.

[Joe Getty]

But his Trump's argument is that currently, like, if you have a gathering, more than a small gathering, there's no place to put people where you can, like, somebody can speak to them, and then you can go into another room and have a meal.

[Jack Armstrong]

Correct. Yeah. The east room, where all the big banquets are, can fit 200 people. It's tight, but you can do 200.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. I don't have an opinion on this either way, so.

[Jack Armstrong]

No, I mean, in the list of issues pressing Americans, it's way, way, way down the list.

[Joe Getty]

That picture is what looked bad because it looks like you're tearing down an historic building. That picture of that wall torn off the side of the White House, I.

[Jack Armstrong]

Think that's what got 40s, arguably 30s. It's just the East Wing is historic, but it's just the architecture is made to match the original mansion. They're tearing down the walls so they can tie the new structure into it, and then the architecture will precisely mimic the old mansion.

[Joe Getty]

Now, because it's Trump, is it going to look like a Chinese restaurant on the inside? Lots of gold, this and that.

[Jack Armstrong]

More than you can believe, I'm sure. Gold silverware, gold pictures, gold glasses, gold cups.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Milani got a role in it because she's got style.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, hell, it's style for miles. Are you kidding? I don't know. I don't care.

[Joe Getty]

I have such a good thing for our One More Thing podcast. So we do this radio show every, every day, and then when we get off the air, because we're just not done talking, we do another segment called One More Thing that does not air on the radio. You should check it out on our podcast. But I got a good one for it today. I don't want to. I don't. I don't want to tease it because it kind of gives away the punchline to it, but it's no, I can't even tease it. Sorry.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, you lost your shiznizzle the other day and we're dropping f bombs all over the place. Completely inappropriate. That was because sometimes there are swears.

[Joe Getty]

That was all because of my anger of not being able to ring up the pie at Costco in the self checkout line.

[Jack Armstrong]

I can understand your anger and I.

[Joe Getty]

Wanted that pie so badly. Damn, that's a good apple pie at Costco. It's the best store bought apple pie I've ever had anywhere. You should eat.

[Jack Armstrong]

You should have eaten it right there as a protest.

[Joe Getty]

I should have. I do. With my hands. Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Just sat there with your hands. Just scooped it up.

[Joe Getty]

Like sat on the floor between my legs. Yeah, exactly.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay. We will finish right in the food court.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, we will finish strong.

[Jack Armstrong]

Next, Armstrong and Gettysburg.

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[News Reporter]

Authorities in Los Angeles are looking for a woman who allegedly used dating apps to find wealthy elderly men, pose as a girlfriend, and then burglarize their homes. They're also still looking for a wealthy old man who minds. Yeah, it worked out for me. I couldn't take it with me.

[Joe Getty]

Burglarize their homes? That's interesting.

[Jack Armstrong]

All right.

[Joe Getty]

Something to watch out for. As I am an old man. I wanted to hear joke 2. I haven't heard this story either.

[News Reporter]

Tesla recently unveiled a cheaper version of its Model 3 sedan that costs approximately $37,000. As opposed to the Cybertruck, which will cost you, your friends and Family.

[Joe Getty]

It's kind of happened to me. So they got a new version coming out. Okay. Gonna continue trying to make electric cars work. We'll see if that happens.

[News Reporter]

And finally, the food brand Johnsonville will reportedly release a new Dr. Pepper flavored sausage. Makes perfect sense since nobody knows what that's made from either.

[Jack Armstrong]

Not great jokes.

[Joe Getty]

No, I, I most. I wasn't looking to him for humor. I was interested in the stories. So There's a new Dr. Pepper sausage out. Yeah. Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

You run into. If you're at a fancy barbecue place. Dr. Pepper barbecue sauce or cocoa is often used for the sweetness. And barbecue sauce.

[Joe Getty]

Okay. Did not know that. Sure. Learn something every day. Okay, cool.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yummy. I do loves my barbecue.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, yeah. So do you think these women were. How are. So they were just like, chatting online and then they figure out the guy's got stuff and then robs his house?

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, exactly.

[Joe Getty]

That sucks.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, it's. It's why you don't get a friends with benefits relationship going with various women of ill repute because their boyfriend is gonna rob your place sooner or later.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, yeah. Luckily I'm not doing that, but yeah. The modern world, man. Which the modern world is going to factor in the One More Thing podcast, which is coming up after the show and then we'll post it. I was talking to a parent about this the other day, realizing that every young person in history says times are harder now than they were before. And every parent says it's harder to raise kids now than it was before, but it is legit. Got to be harder to raise kids now than it was 25 years ago. It just legitimately has to be.

[Jack Armstrong]

As a guy who literally raised his kids 25 years ago. 100% correct.

[Joe Getty]

Not when they were little. Is the same as it always has been, but now they're older and out into the adolescents.

[Jack Armstrong]

Teenagers, please. Yeah, no comparison.

[Joe Getty]

Shocking.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, I know, I know. It's awful.

[Joe Getty]

And we haven't wrapped our heads around it. I mentioned to start the show today, I was disturbed that I've heard the news story twice that a new study has come out that shows that if you eliminate cell phones in classrooms, test scores go up. Well, thanks for that study.

[Katie Green]

What?

[Joe Getty]

Check your clock.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's time to stop Jack and Joe. They've got to go.

[JD Vance]

And if they don't get canned, they'll be back tomorrow.

[Joe Getty]

That's true. Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.

[Jack Armstrong]

Hey, let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew. Wouldn't that be delightful? Michelangelo Pressing the buttons in the control room. Michael, what's your final thought? Jack, I really. The idea of you protesting self checkouts by just eating the food right there on the floor. No matter what it is, you just open it up and start eating it. Well, I'll try to ring it up.

[Joe Getty]

I'll try to ring it up once, but if it starts with the whole.

[Jack Armstrong]

Place the item on the tray.

[Joe Getty]

I did place the item on the tray. Then I'm just gonna eat it right there.

[Jack Armstrong]

How did you not pie somebody in the face? You have a pie. You're unhappy. That's time honored. Katie Green, our esteemed newswoman, has a final thought.

[Katie Green]

Katie, Hillary popped off about the demolition of the east wing of the White House and one of the responses to her tweet was someone promptly letting her know about what her husband did in the Oval Office.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, don't talk to us about desecrating the White House, old lady.

[Joe Getty]

That's a decent point, Jack.

[Jack Armstrong]

A final thought for us.

[JD Vance]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

In case you didn't hear me say this earlier, my son in his public school class, literally there are girls sitting in the class with their phones out and earbuds in watching TikTok videos us during class while the teacher's talking.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right, Right. My final thought. Wow, that's a little long and complicated. I probably shouldn't go with that one.

[Joe Getty]

My final thought.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'm going to quote one of my favorite Twitter accounts who noticed the study we talked about a week or two ago that the number of adolescents identifying as transgender has been cut in half in like two years.

[Joe Getty]

That's a big story.

[Jack Armstrong]

And he says reminder people got canceled for suggesting that this was a social contagion. They lost their jobs a couple of years ago. Question authority. Leftist authority especially.

[News Reporter]

Always.

[Joe Getty]

Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.

[Jack Armstrong]

So many people. Thanks. A little time. Go to Armstrong and getty.com. a lot of great clicks for you. You ought to check out the podcast the Great Feminization of America. We did it yesterday. Hour two.

[Joe Getty]

Check it out. See you tomorrow. God bless America. Armstrong and Getty.

[Jack Armstrong]

Let's be clear.

[Joe Getty]

Del Loco. They're locking up my 2. It's 100 on the crazy meter. No. What do we want to be? Losers or winners? I want winners. You're a loser.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's right. Words. I have to laugh at that.

[News Reporter]

Are you?

[Announcer]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

But Mr. Speaker, it isn't enough to say sorry. I'm gonna call my lawyer. Gonna.

[Jack Armstrong]

It is over on that high note. Thank you all very much. Armstrong and Getty.

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