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Armstrong and Getty. And now, here's Armstrong and Getty.
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Joe Getty
Southern Poverty Law center, who got funding racism so that they could complain about
Jack Armstrong
it, it would seem, and then raise scads of money. They have $800 million in the bank. 800 million. It's an enormous scam the only way they can keep it going is to convince the soft heads of America they're white supremacists running wild in the streets. And if they can't find any, they hire some. Oh, boy.
Joe Getty
And we talked about that in hour one or two. Get the podcast, I think. Great piece in the National Review about it. That's something. I hope that at the very least the Southern Poverty Law center will no longer be taken seriously when they come out with their latest report. White supremacy is now the number one threat to America. You know, that sort of crap. And everybody treated it like, well, they're a nonpartisan organization just trying to find the truth.
Jack Armstrong
And including hate groups like Moms who Don't Want Boys in Girls Sports and and you know, pregnancy crisis centers that don't push you toward abortion. Angry right wing extremists.
Joe Getty
Right. Or if you want to remove pornographic books from your public library.
Jack Armstrong
Exactly.
Joe Getty
What is that saying you've been using lately about things start as a good cause and end up a racket? Because that does seem to be true.
Jack Armstrong
Every cause turns into a business and ends up a racket.
Joe Getty
That does seem to be the way they work.
Jack Armstrong
Plus, you've pointed out, and I can't remember who originally came up with this thought, that every organization moves left as it goes through time unless they're explicitly
Joe Getty
designed to be conservative.
Jack Armstrong
Right.
Joe Getty
If you just like start out as a, we're trying to solve this problem, they always end up moving left. And you can, you know, come up with lots of examples in your mind of that too. Not exactly sure why that is.
Jack Armstrong
I think it's that left politics tends to support activist organizations and funnel the money.
Joe Getty
And the most misunderstood term in maybe in all of politics or organizations is non profit. There should be way more education on what the term nonprofit can mean. It doesn't always mean, but a lot of times it means. Sure, you know, we're about to play a clip from Jennifer Newsom, Gavin Newsom's wife. She runs a nonprofit that probably the nonprofit organization gives her a car to drive and puts her up in hotels and pays for her travel when she
Jack Armstrong
goes, gives speeches and gives her a lavish salary. You and I could form a non profit today. We would each have a salary of $850,000 a year and we would not show a profit. And we would be lauded as running a nonprofit while we're getting freaking rich.
Joe Getty
Well, when you drive the nonprofit's car so you don't have to pay for a car out of your own money, which is part of Your salary. Yeah, it's so obvious, but people get away with it a lot. Anyway, here is Jennifer Newsom yesterday. Gavin Newsom's wife. She's standing like, on the bank of a river there. Beautiful, beautiful scenery. And she wanted to acknowledge Earth Day.
Jennifer Siebel Newsom
Good morning and happy Earth Day. Felicia de la Tierra. Why today we reflect on our shared home something so meaningful and yet so often taken for granted and increasingly fragile. Earth Day reminds us not only to celebrate this land, but to protect California's unparalleled natural beauty, rich cultural and historical resources.
Joe Getty
Okay, so why the Spanish there?
Jack Armstrong
I'm stuck on the fact that she was posed near a river. And I'm sure they had to, you know, frame the shot so that the junkie camps where people are taking craps in the river, throwing trash all over the parkland and dropping needles in the parks, weren't visible, but, you know.
Joe Getty
Hey, we gotta stop. Sorry. We gotta start over. There's somebody taking a crap over your left shoulder.
Jack Armstrong
Hey. Hey, you junkie boy. Pull up your pants and go. Shut up.
Joe Getty
Yeah, but anyway, this is the part that I liked. Keep in mind that while she's talking about how much her kids love the outdoors and everything like that, because they grew up near the river, they live on a $9 million estate. Yeah, I'm sure your kids do love it. Here you go.
Jennifer Siebel Newsom
The Golden State encompasses landscapes that deserve to be experienced and preserved for generations to come. For me, these places have always been deeply personal. As a girl, nature was my sanctuary, helping me to heal from a horrific accident. And now it's also a sanctuary for the governors and my kids. It's why we made a home near the American river, so our kids could experience the healing power of the outdoors.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, that was the seven. Several million dollar estate that was mysteriously bought by an LLC with ties to the governor and. No. And they never paid anything for it. Then it was sold at a huge profit. And. Yeah, very odd, I think, for the grace of God. Right?
Joe Getty
This. This publication that I'm looking at right here says it's $9.2 million. I don't know, but if it's even.
Jack Armstrong
You know, that's the new spread, Marin. I think.
Joe Getty
But. So, first of all, the tragedy. That's when she ran over her sister with a golf cart and killed her. Which is. Is a tragedy and could happen in any family and whatever, but weird. Just kind of tossing that out as nature helped her here from. Okay, so that's why we're honoring Earth Day. Anywho. Yeah, Everybody's kids Would love to grow up on that place that you just described and everything. I mean, so because we wanted our kids to love nature, we had them grow up on a giant, beautiful, gazillion
Jack Armstrong
dollar piece of property overlooking the American River. Yeah, I've priced those houses.
Joe Getty
We, we'd all like that. It's not like we didn't because it hadn't occurred to us that, geez, our kids might really like this. We just didn't. We just made the mistake of not getting into public service so we don't have enough money to afford it. Should have gotten into public service, I guess.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. If I'd known selling Marxism to school children were that profitable, I'd be able to afford your house too. Damn it. Damn me for my lack of imagination.
Joe Getty
Another thing. So two things that we are really ought to work on as a populace to, to understand what it means, the term non profit. And why do so many people who get in government get so flipping rich? Why isn't there more attention paid to that?
Jennifer Siebel Newsom
That's a great question.
Jack Armstrong
Well, you started living, was born with. With a giant silver serving spoon in his mouth. So he, you know, he, he was always going to be rich.
Joe Getty
And according to him, he had this stacked white bread. Huh. You know what I'm talking about? No, I don't know what you're talking about.
Jack Armstrong
We have no idea.
Joe Getty
I don't know what you're talking about.
Jack Armstrong
But yeah, the baloney and the baloney and the white bread. What?
Joe Getty
And particularly from the left since they hate the rich so much. And anybody who is rich has by definition done something awful. What? They live on a nine million dollar estate. Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
Bought through mysterious means. Very Bidenesque. Hey, Jennifer Newsom, stop teaching confused young girls to have their healthy breasts removed. Could you do me that favor, sweetheart? You're a monster. Oh my God.
Joe Getty
The Spanish bothers me. Always does. But I should get used to it.
Jennifer Siebel Newsom
Good morning and happy Earth Day. Felicia de la Tierra.
Joe Getty
Her tone is like it's straight out of Fred Armisen's Portlandia.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, yeah. Or she's in like some Caddyshack level movie where they're.
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Jack Armstrong
All right, we need someone to portray like a really sanctimonious rich broad.
Joe Getty
Yes, yes, exactly. Yes. We want broad over the top, sanctimonious, rich broad. And she's got. Nailed it. She could be in.
Jack Armstrong
Good take, good take. But can you sound more pleased with yourself? Take two.
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Jennifer Siebel Newsom
Felicia de la Tierra.
Jack Armstrong
That's good. That's a keeper.
Joe Getty
Yes. Katie before we take a break, if she is actually like this all the
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Joe Getty
a little bit of a break. If he's actually using drugs.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, yeah. If he is on drugs. I get it.
Joe Getty
Now we're gonna have to do another take. Those pit bulls are fighting over your left shoulder. You gotta got a guy crapping over your right shoulder. And you got pit bulls fighting over your left shoulder. This is not what we're going for here. That's pretty funny. Somebody ought to restage that with an actress on a different part of the American river where it's just trash intense and people standing around leaning up against trees high.
Jack Armstrong
Hi, I'm Jennifer Siebel Newsom. My kids love nature because we decided to buy a five million dollar house overlooking the river. Here's some nature happening right behind me. These two meth heads are fornicating. Yeah. What could be more natural for Nicoto?
Joe Getty
Oh, my God. That's funny. Somebody gotta say what? That tone. She's got that tone. Like I just said something in Spanish. Did you realize that? So I can speak Spanish.
Jack Armstrong
I'm smarter and prettier than everyone. So what I'm about to tell you is very important.
Jennifer Siebel Newsom
Good morning and happy Earth Day, Felicia de la Tierra Matiera.
Joe Getty
Because I can speak Spanish, as I just showed you.
Jack Armstrong
So it's funny. I can't pull that off. I can do like a lot of different voices and accents. I think you have to be that pleased with yourself.
Joe Getty
Oh, man.
Jack Armstrong
Wow. I gotta work on that.
Joe Getty
Oh, that's funny. Okay, we got more on the way. Stay here.
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Joe Getty
for Turns 1 of the interesting things about comedian Russell Brand is I've never heard him say anything funny, so I don't know if you are by definition a comedian at that point. Anywho, he's become pretty popular in conservative circles over the last several years. He was, I know, an alcoholic or drug addict and a
Jack Armstrong
sex addict, sex
Joe Getty
hound and all that sort of stuff. And now he's become very religious and he's on Tucker Carlson's show and stuff like that.
Jack Armstrong
And boy, if I ever get another dog, it won't be a sex hound. I just bad dog.
Joe Getty
So here's Russell Brand's admission that I think is a hook for his new book that he's got out, which he wants to apologize for his previous lifestyle
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in Europe and in the United Kingdom where I'm from, the age of consent is 16 and I did sleep with a 16 year old when I was 30, but when I was 30 I was a very different person. I was a lot younger and I was an immature 30 year old so
Joe Getty
it was legal where he was at the time. That's a heck of a thing. 16 is a very young. That's a heck of a thing to put out there to promote your new book. Although he's trying to go for a whole, you know, I have sinned redemption thing, which if he's sincere can be great.
Jack Armstrong
Gotta confess your sins. Right.
Joe Getty
Although I saw him on Tucker the other day and he's all kinds of. All the stuff that Tucker Carlson is about. The Jews are running the world and oh my God, et cetera. Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
And he's on with Megyn Kelly. These cliffs actually are from her day. She's way down that hateful grifter road.
Joe Getty
It's interesting. Tucker and Candace are Persona non grata for most mainstream anybody, but not Megan Kelly. I love Mark Halpern, love Rich Rowry of the National Review. They both go on her show weekly. And I'm surprised by that.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Megyn Kelly is very, very canny about going full on extremist on like her stuff. And it's like the, the woke crowd has gotten pretty skilled at. But then when they get on like a moderate outlet, they moderate and they come off as very reasonable in my opinion. And my opinion is correct.
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But there's more consensual sex actually with a variety of people when there is a strong power differential as there is when you're a famous man that has the ability to attract women that I had at that time, I think involves exploitation. I think it is exploitative. I recognize that my sexual conduct in the past was selfish and I didn't, I did not apply enough consideration, barely any, I suppose, really, to how that sex was affecting other people.
Joe Getty
I don't really buy the whole power dynamic thing and I don't like it. Once you go down that road, where are you going to draw the line on whichever direction the power flows on, whatever it is.
Jack Armstrong
Well. And I've known plenty of women through the decades who were like, yeah, sleep with a famous rock star or have sex with them cheap and meaningless. So I could say I did. All right, I'm in.
Joe Getty
Yeah. It's up to you.
Jack Armstrong
Live however you want.
Joe Getty
Power dynamic. The power could be lots of things. Your position in the company, your wealth, your looks, your popularity, your personality, your. All kinds of different things. So on both sides, all right, you have.
Jack Armstrong
And sexy. You have sexual power.
Joe Getty
Yeah. Particularly women.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
Joe Getty
So I don't know that whole thing, but yeah.
Jack Armstrong
I've got to admit, as come to Jesus confessions, when that one left me, I think he's much like his alleged comedy.
Joe Getty
I think what he wants is to be able to be a big deal in the Tucker world and make lots of money on that. And he's got this dragging him down. So I think he's trying to get this cleared up. I'm a new person now and now I'm with you. I'm the. The Jews run the world and blah, blah, blah, all that stuff.
Jack Armstrong
Plus there's the. There's the appeal of the redeemed sinner or the fervor of the converted. Yeah, I came over to your side. It's why every Republican who disavows Trump has full time employment on NBC or msnbc. We love people who come over to our side. But, yeah, everybody's a grifter and everybody is a grifter.
Joe Getty
Russell Brand, who was married to Katy Perry, who is now being accused of rubbing her vajayjay on somebod. And some woman, I think, Good Lord. Who worked for her, who's charging, suing
Jack Armstrong
her, claiming, now that's an allegation. Oh, my God, we're at war with Iran. China's on the march.
Joe Getty
AI is going to be worried about
Jack Armstrong
whether astronaut Katie Porter has rubbed her genitals on somebody.
Joe Getty
Astronaut Katy Perry. They haven't built a rocket to get Katie Porter into space yet.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, sorry.
Jennifer Siebel Newsom
Hi, I'm Katy Perry.
Joe Getty
There's a headline. Get out of my shop. Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
Two different women. I apologize.
Joe Getty
That's a big difference there, Joe. If you think you're going on a date with Katy Perry and you get
Jack Armstrong
there, yeah, good luck on that rocket. Run for your life. Look, here's 50 bucks. Pay for your own dinner. I'm out.
Joe Getty
Oh, 50 bucks won't cover that.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, boy, that's unfair. That's unkind. I won't have it.
Joe Getty
I've heard that sort of thing from people who show up to the blind dates where it's like, yeah, here's your money, I'm leaving. Okay, we got more on the Armstrong and Getty.
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and private sector analysts, the American economy loses between 400 to $600 billion per year to China stealing this intellectual property.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, it's easy to forget as Americans tend to focus on one story at a time. We've got this giant global rivalry with China going on and the president's due to sit down with Winnie the Fascist in a couple of weeks, right?
Joe Getty
Yeah, coming up in May. And I just saw an article in the Financial Times about how we're accusing them of stealing some of our biggest AI technology.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, they steal everything all the time, as a matter of fact. And that was the subject of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing yesterday, I think it was. We've got a handful of different clips. They're all more or less related. We'll hit them and comment as necessary. This is Thom Tillis, the North Carolinian. North Carolinian who is leaving office and has been a little anti Trumpy lately. He's a Republican and Dick Durbin, it's
Joe Getty
time for the President, the administration and Congress to take action to hold China accountable. China is taking advantage of American chaos during whatever it takes to overtake our position as global leader in innovation.
Jack Armstrong
All right, Durbin sounds a little drunk there for some reason. Nobody's ever just frank. Everything's got to be about making a point about the Trump administration, part about global chaos and the rest of it. I am intrigued, though, that Trump, who was in fact, one of the, one of the things I praised him most for in term number one, was that he was absolutely the standard bearer of, hey, the Chinese are not our buddies. They're not liberalizing. They're a threat and a foe. But he's gone very soft on China. Might be three to seven dimensional chess, but it's bothered me a little bit anyway. The always dependable Ted Cruz. China didn't need to solve the physics problems from scratch. It just needed to steal the answer. When America spends decades innovating, but China copies us in years and steals from it, that is not competition. It is being a parasite. Okay, I'm sure that hurts Xi Jinping's feelings.
Joe Getty
Yeah, that's what I was gonna say. You either can, either can stop them or you can't.
Jack Armstrong
Let's go with Alex Hogan of Fox News talking about some prominent examples.
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The hearing highlighted cases of stolen intellectual property or attempted theft. Like, earlier this year, a federal jury in San Francisco convicted a former Google software engineer of stealing more than 2,000 pages of artificial intelligence trade secrets and then attempting to set up his own company in China.
Jack Armstrong
Roll on, big mama. Roll on where?
News Analyst
Last month, the federal judge in Chicago fined a Chinese telecommunications company $50 million for conspiring to steal technology from Illinois based Motorola.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, America is lousy with Chinese spies, especially our college campuses.
Joe Getty
Why can't we stop them from doing this?
Jack Armstrong
Any sanction that would be effective would be extremely provocative, I think people would say. One more clip. This is Tom Lyons.
Joe Getty
It's energy, it's non carbon based energy. It's communications, it's logistics, it's automotive, it's semiconductors. This is how you mobilize a war.
Jack Armstrong
And so we're not dealing with just
Joe Getty
a competitive adversary here. We're dealing with somebody who is ensuring that they can win the fight without firing a shot. Oh, boy, I hope all these chickens don't come home to roost one day. And it's all, like, so clear in retrospect.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I would agree. I'm so intrigued by China's incredible internal problems. Demographics and financial stuff as well. It's all a little in the Chinese weeds. But the idea that they'll just continue to grow and be a juggernaut is just not true. Where this ends, nobody knows. And whether that ticking clock causes the commies, the dirty commies, to think, you know, maybe you ought to scale back our whole taking over the world thing, or whether it emboldens Them, they think, hey, it's now or never. Nobody's really sure. Hell of an intriguing question.
Joe Getty
So the other day I brought up this Washington Post headline. Students are speeding through their online degrees in weeks. Alarming educators as almost every university in the country has got some sort of online program at this point. It's called degree hacking is what this is. So it's, it's, it's a combination of things. I mean, even at colleges that are trying to be somewhat rigorous, as has been reported now for quite a few years, the average person getting a degree, if you're on campus and going to class and doing all that sort of stuff, there's very little work, there's very little attending class or whatever. And then. So if you do it online, you realize, well, I could get all this done really fast. I don't need to spread this out over two semesters or whatever. I can do this in like two weeks.
Jack Armstrong
I realize hack means cleverly doing something these days, like life hack.
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Jack Armstrong
But to me, that's admirable.
Joe Getty
That's not. Oh no, no, no, no. Wrong.
Jack Armstrong
It's admirable.
Joe Getty
Yeah, you're right. Hack has negative connotations. No, this is the smart thing to do. This is what your kids should be doing. Rather than spending four years getting the piece of paper that for some stupid blanking reason, in some cases it's necessary to have to get a job, you can get it in eight weeks.
Jack Armstrong
Wow.
Joe Getty
They have a couple of different universities they use the example of in this Washington Post article. And these are US universities. University of Maine I think is one of them that got a lot of attention. Purdue something or other, their online programs, but so University of Maine, most online undergraduates. Of the 300 students who earned a bachelor's from the University of Maine last year, the majority finished in less than a year. So the majority got a four year bachelor's in less than a year. More than one and a quarter finished the entire degree. Course load. Course load in a single eight week session.
Jack Armstrong
A quarter of them.
Joe Getty
Oh, a quarter.
Jack Armstrong
Okay.
Joe Getty
A quarter of them do it. Did it in an eight week session. The majority do it in less than a year. Wow.
Jack Armstrong
So if I were to put in like reasonable effort, I could probably start in November, fart around through the holidays, then get after it in January, February, March and have a degree.
Joe Getty
Absolutely.
Jack Armstrong
I mean, my current life, empty nest, et cetera.
Joe Getty
There's this western governor's university. It is one of the largest colleges in the United states. More than 194,000 students and it's got, you know, all the accreditation that you need to be counted. Like other colleges
Jack Armstrong
that most of the Western governors are lunatics right now point out. But it's their.
Joe Getty
Their website says that students finish their bachelor's degree in an average of 2 1/2 years, but many finish significantly faster than that. And then they quote all these people who say, hey, I got a full time job and a kid. I would never have been able to get a bachelor's degree at a traditional college, but here I was able to get it done in less than a year and then I went and got my master's the next year. Some educators are really concerned about this, that it is devaluing the perception of what a degree is worth. I think for any of us. Yeah, for any of us who've been paying attention, that got devalued a long time ago. I think what's happening here, I don't think this is. What's the way to put this. I don't think this is like taking what was a fairly riggish degree and watering it down by doing it online.
Jack Armstrong
No,
Joe Getty
it was not very rigorous to start with. These people just decided, why would I spread out eight weeks of work over four years? That's nuts, right?
Jack Armstrong
Let's get her done, then get to making a living. Yeah. Again, I admire these people.
Joe Getty
That's what's happening.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, I so want to get on some sort of online college and get a law degree before my daughter dies. Oh, that would be so funny.
Joe Getty
And she graduates from a rigorous school and you can say from one lawyer to another, congratulations.
Jack Armstrong
Or I just leave my diploma laying around for her to discover. Dad, what's this?
Joe Getty
Oh, that's my law degree.
Jack Armstrong
It's my law degree.
Joe Getty
I got it. I got it. Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
Top 10% of the class. How are you doing?
Joe Getty
I. When I'd play golf in between holes while we're waiting for the Forceman front of us, I would jump on and get a class done.
Jack Armstrong
Read another paragraph. Oh, boy. Patent law. I'll be damned. Okay. Yeah. Wow. I'm so tempted to do this. But then I think, what, am I going to walk around telling people I have another degree?
Joe Getty
Well, that's what I was thinking, walking around my. My town. University of California at Davis, the town I live in. I was walking around the campus this past weekend because it was what they call picnic day anyway. And I was wondering to myself as I walked around how much of it at this point is parents who for whatever reason are willing to pay gods, gobs of Money for the college experience. That is the. You get to hang around with other people your age, you know, hang around at the coffee shop, go to parties at night, stuff like that. If that's what you're paying for more than the degree. Because you could get the degree. I think there's a lot of people, the kid and the parent who thinks, well I don't want to get it done in eight weeks and join the workforce. I want to spread this out over four years of sitting at the coffee shop and going out to eat and all the stuff that comes with being a college kid.
Jack Armstrong
I want to wear my pajamas during the daytime for at least three or four years, right? Yes.
Joe Getty
So how much of it is that?
Jack Armstrong
Well, you combine that, which, that's a chunk of it with, you know, my, my area of society, my social circle considers a college degree absolutely required for respectability. And then the portion of the economy that still, as you described it stupidly insists on a. You might as well get it out of the bottom of a Cheerios Box. College degree to, to be employed, sitting in a cubicle somewhere. Then it all combines people think, you know, overall on the merits.
Joe Getty
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
Go to kid, go to school kid. I'll help you pay for it or pay for it, whatever.
Joe Getty
Huh.
Jack Armstrong
Now, now here's a, here's a question for you. Well, it depends. I guess I was gonna say if you could learn the stuff that theoretically you learn to earn a degree, I would like to know that stuff.
Joe Getty
Sure.
Jack Armstrong
But do I need the framework of a college?
Joe Getty
No, absolutely not.
Jack Armstrong
Giving me a piece of paper in exchange for the money I gave him
Joe Getty
outside of like, you know, you always. The caveat of specific sciences, like, you know.
Jack Armstrong
Oh yeah, real stuff in other words. But I guarantee you, tell me if I'm wrong.
Joe Getty
You're not Good stuff for non real stuff. I have learned so much on YouTube videos and websites and stuff like that in the last couple of decades. I mean it's all out there. It's just, it's just up to how curious you are or your. The amount of time you want to put into it, anything you want to freaking learn.
Jack Armstrong
And I may do this during the commercial break. I'm certain this is correct. I could ask Claude design for me a curriculum that will leave me as grounded in the history and philosophy of Western civilization as if I'd gotten a degree in Western CIV.
Joe Getty
Easy peasy.
Jack Armstrong
15 seconds later I'll have the plan and the book list and everything else.
Joe Getty
Eight weeks, a quarter of them got their four year bachelor's degree in eight weeks.
Jack Armstrong
That's such an indictment of modern college.
Joe Getty
He didn't even make it through the whole football season. I didn't get the chance to see how the football team did this year because I've already graduated and left, right?
Jack Armstrong
Exactly. I'll miss you, Jim. John John
Joe Getty
I remember my first college girlfriend that first week. And then I had my second college girlfriend the third week and I thought it was love.
Jack Armstrong
You know, I'm doing a lot in the interim. Six weeks? Yes, Michael. In ten weeks, Joe, you could be Dr. Joe Getty.
Joe Getty
Dr. Joe Getty.
Jack Armstrong
And I would freaking make you all call me doctor, too.
Joe Getty
Damn right.
Jack Armstrong
Just like my hero, Dr. Jill Biden.
Joe Getty
Okay, we will finish strong. Next Armstrong and Getty.
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Joe Getty
Don't forget to find the the extra thing we do after the show every day we do a little podcast called One More Thing that doesn't air on the radio. And it includes swears if you ever want to hear it.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, no. I wish we had time for this story. Tick bites causing highest rate of ER visits in a decade. Try not to get bitten by a tick. But this is a perfect follow up. I'm working on creating an image. A friend of the Armstrong and Getty Show, Dave, sent us a picture of Saul Goodman from Better Call Saul with his sweatshirt from the Law School of American Samoa. And I'm trying to have Grok put my face on that picture, but it is stalled, apparently. Come on, Elon. Or no, I'm sorry, it's chat.
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GPT.
Jack Armstrong
Come on, Sam. Anyway, how about this story? Sullivan and Cromwell, which is a premier Wall street law firm, has apologized to a federal judge for submitting a court filing with inaccurate citations and errors generated by artificial intelligence.
Joe Getty
A hallucination.
Jack Armstrong
The head of the firm's global restructuring group. I mean, you're the head of global restructuring for a giant Wall street law firm. You're apologizing because the errors included AI hallucinations, instances in which they make up case citations, misquote the law, or generate non existent legal sources.
Joe Getty
I'm surprised they don't have somebody that like verifies everything they get out of chat.
Jack Armstrong
I'm shocked by it. And another super giant law firm that was involved in the case caught him at it and they wrote, I apologize on behalf of our entire team. I also called Boys Shiller Flexner LLP on Friday to thank them for bringing this matter to our attention and to apologize directly to them as well. Please don't yell at me anymore. The firm told the judge it maintains comprehensive policies and training requirements governing the use of AI tools in legal work. They don't work very well. This is a company with more than 900 lawyers, one of the country's top corporate law firms.
Joe Getty
And you can't hire one of them to say, hey, go through all these citations and make sure they're real.
Jack Armstrong
Make sure they exist. Yeah, interns or first years or something like that. It got in front of a federal judge and was called out by another super premier firm. How widespread is that?
Joe Getty
I don't.
Jack Armstrong
Seems ludicrous to me.
Joe Getty
I don't know. I've got a friend who's a lawyer and talking about how long he'd have to be there to make partner and how that whole deal works and the competition. That sounds like something.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, Yeah. I Talked to my daughter a fair amount about that. The different tracks you can take, you know, there. And there are all sorts of options. And attorneys will be shouting at the radio, you know, fixing errors in what I'm about to say or other alternatives. But, you know, you could be a prosecutor for a while for the government. You won't make very much money, but you'll get some skills as a litigator. Then you go to defense.
Joe Getty
At any point, are you going to throw in, like, do something good for the world or your heart?
Jack Armstrong
What? What are you talking about? Or you can go big law for a while, get the credentials and then go start your own little boutique firm or go work for a little firm that's more work, life balancing and stuff like that.
Joe Getty
Don't most people who stick with being prosecutors do it because they think it's like the right thing to do for the world?
Jack Armstrong
In some cases, yeah, I think so. Or you get a really fast car that's good at chasing ambulances, you know. You know, you could sue for that. Sprained my ankle. It doesn't matter. I'll sue for.
Joe Getty
You'll get the facts. They're sharp and steady. Tune in tomorrow. Don't you forget it.
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Oh, there's your host.
Joe Getty
For final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Jack Armstrong
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew to wrap up the show. Michelangelo, would you be so kind as
Joe Getty
to lead us off?
Jack Armstrong
I really like the idea, Joe, of you getting a law degree in eight weeks. I think you got to do that for the show. It's just too good. And then just lecture my daughter. You know, if you worked a little harder and then point to it on the way wall, she would murder me. Katie Greener, esteemed newswoman, has a final thought.
Joe Getty
Katie, I just tried to do the. Your face on Saul Goodman's photo gave
Jack Armstrong
you a weird neck.
Joe Getty
So I'm gonna try it again. Yeah, Chad, GPT's messing up.
Jack Armstrong
Just not working. Jack, final thought for us.
Joe Getty
Yeah. My biggest failure as a single parent, as I've mentioned many times, is I don't really cook anything. And we doordash a lot. I made one of the two things I know how to make. Last night we sat around and had dinner together. That way always makes me feel like a real parent. And then we'll be back to doordash tonight.
Jack Armstrong
I'm sure it's all right. My final thought. The more I learn, the more I read about it. The Southern Poverty Law center is an amazing cash cow. It's like they own a money printing press. Holy cats. More on that tomorrow.
Joe Getty
Paying Ku Klux Klan members to show up to rallies so then you can complain about it and raise money. That's a good gig. Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
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Joe Getty
We will see tomorrow. God to Bless America. Armstrong and Getty down by the river
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Episode Title: “If I Get Another Dog It Won’t Be A Sex Hound”
Hosts: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty
Podcast: iHeartPodcasts
In this wide-ranging episode, Armstrong & Getty dig into the hypocrisy and questionable practices of prominent nonprofits, celebrity activism, the culture around “cause” organizations, Russell Brand’s evangelical turn and controversy, the Chinese intellectual property theft crisis, and the accelerating trend of “degree hacking” in higher education. True to style, the hosts mix biting humor with cultural criticism, challenging assumptions while riffing on everything from Earth Day to fast-track online degrees.
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The hosts blend skepticism with sharp-edged, irreverent humor. Reminiscent of talk radio but with podcast latitude, Armstrong & Getty frequently punctuate debate with satire and farcical hypotheticals (e.g., revised Earth Day videos, “sex hounds,” mock AI law degrees). They challenge shibboleths on both sides of the political divide but especially enjoy skewering progressive institutions, the self-regard of the rich, and bureaucratic absurdities.
The episode closes with the crew’s tongue-in-cheek takes: joking about getting quick law degrees for showmanship, the tradeoffs of being a “real parent,” and reiterating their critiques of nonprofit grifts. A parody outro track (“Welcome to the Golden State”) keeps the spirit mocking and self-aware.
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If you haven’t listened, this summary arms you with the episode’s core debates: nonprofit corruption, elite hypocrisy, the coming irrelevance of degree gatekeeping, and America’s struggle with China’s rise. And, of course, the signature Armstrong & Getty style: a relentless, humorous challenge to whatever is presented as common sense.