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Jack Armstrong
This is an iHeart podcast, guaranteed human
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Joe Getty
broadcasting. Live from the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
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Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Getty. Some big sports news. Travis Kelce just announced that he's returning
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Jack Armstrong
for a 14th season with the Kansas City Chiefs.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, sure. Taylor Swift heard was like, hey, you know I'm rich, right?
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Jack Armstrong
I could buy Kansas City if you want me to. Yeah, he's not doing it for the money, obviously. Couple of news items that just popped up on the biggest story in the world, the war with Iran. Before we get to something else, Joe mentioned this. There's more details out. Iran's new supreme leader suffered a fractured foot and facial, facial lacerations on the first day of the war. So he must have been nearby his dad and the 40 people that died or something. I suppose it could have been lots
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Joe Getty
of other places, but yeah, the propaganda people are referring to him as the wounded war veteran and son of the martyr to try to prop up his street cred.
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Jack Armstrong
And if you're close enough to an explosion to end up with a broken foot and cut up face, you were, you were close enough. And I would think that'd leave a mark on your emotions, on how likely you feel you are to survive for the next couple of weeks.
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Joe Getty
Sure.
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Jack Armstrong
And then the other Iran story. The military is considering naval escorts for commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz. Obviously that would be a big deal if we announce, okay, we're escorting the ships through Iran. If you attack them, what do we threaten? We've hit 10,000 targets or something like that so far.
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Joe Getty
Well, and the problem isn't pirates, right? Coming up to the boats and saying, I am the captain now, it's hitting them with missiles from afar. So I'm not sure what the escort would. I mean, they have missile defenses. I guess they could fend off incoming missiles, I don't know. I'm not saying the technology doesn't exist, I just don't know.
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Jack Armstrong
I think it's more of a, you directly attacked us boats, but like I said, they're attacking our military bases. We're blowing the bejesus out. We're at war already, I guess is my point. We're already at war. So what, you attack our ships, we're going to declare war on you? I mean, I don't quite understand. And then you're just looking at it from the practical matter of would that protect the ships as they try to get through and I don't know that either.
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Joe Getty
Right, right.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. All right. So those are those stories we've been continuing to follow the insane news coverage. And this might. It's hard to stand out in the modern era of news coverage for poorly portrayed stories in the news. I mean, it's really hard to stand out because there have been so many examples over the last several years. But this one with the ISIS attack in New York on peaceful protesters and the way they all media tried to word it in such a way that you would think that it was the anti Momdani crowd that were the terrorists as opposed to. It was. They were the ones being attacked. The anti Madnani crowd. They were peacefully protesting in the way that you're allowed to do in the United States. And. And then some people came there to try to kill them to stop them from protesting.
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Joe Getty
Radical Muslims did. Yeah.
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Jack Armstrong
Radical Muslims attempted to kill peaceful protesters is the headline. That is a completely 100% true and not inflammatory because it's just the fact headline. Radical Muslims attempted to kill peaceful protesters in New York. And we talked about CNN's coverage with their weird. Two young men entered New York on a beautiful day. But everything changed when this weird, meandering, poetic story about something that happened to a couple of young men as opposed to portraying it as radical Muslims attempted to kill peaceful protesters, which is these
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Joe Getty
drove from Pennsylvania with a couple of bombs to kill people. Right.
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Jack Armstrong
Bombs that they made with the instructions given to them by ISIS in person when they were traveling to ISIS training camps.
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Joe Getty
Yeah.
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Jack Armstrong
That's what happened.
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Joe Getty
Was just a couple young men could have just taken in a Broadway show or walked through the park. Jack. But then a terrible turn of events occurred. According to cnn. What the f. And I wasn't aware
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Jack Armstrong
of this because I wasn't paying attention to. But if you've seen the video of the one bomb chucker. So there's a guy there with a bullhorn and he's against the protesters. He's an anti protester. He's against the people that are protesting against Mamdani and Muslims in office. Fine, he gets to do that too. That's part of our deal. But one of the bomb chuckers like grabs his shoulder and uses him for leverage to jump over him and throw the bomb. That guy has been interviewed since this dude. And he still says he's still talking about the original anti Muslim protesters as being the threat to America as opposed to the guy who used him as a ladder to throw a bomb and it could have killed him.
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Joe Getty
Right. That's how crazy these people are.
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Jack Armstrong
That's how crazy these people are and how crazy CNN is. They did this today.
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News Anchor/Reporter
Two Republicans say Muslims don't belong here after an attempted terror attack against New York's Mayor Zoran Mamdani. And the House Speaker Mike Johnson says nothing really to condemn those comments.
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Joe Getty
Wow. They're just absolutely, deliberately misreporting it.
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Jack Armstrong
That is so wrong. So you're presenting the story again as if it was the we don't want a Muslim mayor crowd who are peacefully protesting. Even though I don't agree with their politics. The lead guy is a wackadoo in my opinion. But they weren't doing anything illegal at all and they get to have that opinion. She's still presenting that as the threat and then a terrorist attack against the mayor. No, no, it was a terrorist attack against protesters. That's just a flat out lie. And so Rich Lowry, this is where I came across this. Rich Lowry of the National Review said to follow the news for a living and say this days later when your own news organization has already been embroiled in a controversy of the story is pretty incredible. That's why I say this stands out even in today's amazing climate for its attempt to obfuscate or to confuse viewers or listeners as to what actually happened there. I'll bet there are a bunch of smart people in this country who just kind of barely pay attention to the news who think anti Momdani people showed up with bombs to try to kill him, Right? Yeah. And why wouldn't they think that?
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Joe Getty
Because if you watch cnn, I had
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Jack Armstrong
to rewind it on the news over the weekend because I couldn't quite understand what they were saying. I had to listen to it a couple of times to figure out what was actually going on.
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Joe Getty
This is getting more and more obvious and will become so obvious nobody can ignore it pretty soon. But the Red Green alliance that I'm always talking about, talking about the leftist parties in Europe, how they're in favor of decriminalizing drugs, turning all the prisoners loose, trans rights and up with Palestine. And it's like, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
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Jack Armstrong
That's fine.
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Joe Getty
But how's like abortion on demand tied to, you know, being anti American or. There's no, there's no congruity there. They're just. It's almost as if it's at random. Well, that's because it practically is. It's two things pasted together. Radical Marxists who want to overthrow the west and radical Islamists who want to overthrow the rest of the West. You get why they come together. Right. But so we've been raising generations of these radical leftist students who have been indoctrinated in our government schools to the shock and horror of Americans because it happened under our watch. And so, yes, all these radical lefty ized kids who've been screaming about climate change and how and taxing billionaires and a man can get pregnant and everything, they're every bit as nutty and hardcore with up with Islam and down with the West.
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Jack Armstrong
So what do you think, Abby Phillip of cnn, who we just heard, or the people who wrote that because she was reading it off a teleprompter? Yeah, Play it again for us, Michael.
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News Anchor/Reporter
Two Republicans say Muslims don't belong here after an attempted terror attack against New York's Mayor Zoran Mamdani. And the House Speaker, Mike Johnson says nothing really to condemn those comments.
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Joe Getty
I have a feeling everyone in her life in her intellectual little bubble, and I use the term intellectual advisedly with this half wit, but everybody in her life is part of the red green alliance of young people in that they know they can't say anything negative about Muslims, they can't say anything positive about Trump, they can't find any fault with the left. That just goes against their vows.
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Jack Armstrong
I understand. Shading stories spinning where it's not a lie, not the truth. You're misleading people. That was just a flat out lie. To say it was a terrorist attack against Momdani is just a flat out non truth.
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Joe Getty
Now, I hate to undermine my own, you know, parade here, but we are talking about cnn. Is it possible she's just an ignoramus and has no idea what she's talking about and has no idea what happened because she doesn't really pay attention to the news. She just shows up with her white, white teeth and her beautiful hair and her perky boobs and reads off a teleprompter.
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Jack Armstrong
Well, it's getting lots of attention now on Twitter because it happened this morning. Another one of my favorite commenters. When Islamophobia becomes a license to subvert reality.
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Joe Getty
Islamophobia
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Jack Armstrong
in quotes.
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Joe Getty
Oh, yeah, I see. There's no such thing, by the way. I mean, it's possible somewhere someone on earth has a, quote, unquote, irrational fear of Islam, but concern about Islam as a political system, as a system of laws, as a quote, unquote religion is not a phobia at all. It's a serious concern and a legitimate one.
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Jack Armstrong
That's suggesting that CNN is so concerned about Islamophobia as like sweeping the nation that they have to lie about this story. It's just important, I guess.
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Joe Getty
Yeah. I ran across another one of those bizarre stories where something terrible happened committed by a Muslim fanatic and somebody said it might have been this bombing. Somebody said, my concern is that Islamophobia and a backlash will come from this. And that's our first problem.
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Jack Armstrong
Again, I say we're at a new low or tipping point or watershed moment or whatever it is. I don't know. But this is further than even in the past of just trying to mislead you about a story. And how can you have the endless I saw a thing on there from some left organization about Trump's lies. Okay, okay. So you're, you are going to combat that by completely 100% lying about a story that anybody paying attention knows you're lying.
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Joe Getty
You're.
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Jack Armstrong
There's a race to the bottom man, very frustrating.
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Joe Getty
The extent to which anti Semitism has become part of everything the left does and the nutty right as well is really, really troubling. But it's just an article of faith. If you're down with anti climate change, you hate the Jew. These are odd times. I don't know if you've noticed.
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Jack Armstrong
God, I'd say I don't know where it's going. I don't expect this to get better.
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Joe Getty
Go ahead.
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Jack Armstrong
I don't expect.
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Joe Getty
The UK's Green Party just put forth a new motion to declare Israel's existence as a nation racist. No more two state solution. Now the Green Party supports the establishment of a single democratic Palestinian state of all of the, in all of the historic Palestine with Jerusalem as his capital. And, and, and we'll just get rid of all the Jews. They're openly saying that in the Green Party in Britain now.
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Jack Armstrong
If 9, 11 happened now, it'd be interesting. Know what the coverage would be or how big the crowd would be to justify what the terrorists did or, or pretend that they were right wingers or something. I mean, I don't know what story you would make up similar to the Mamdani thing. I don't know what that would be.
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Joe Getty
Well, there would be a huge flow of wave of. They're just reacting to the colonial oppressor conduct of the United States and its allies. The evil Jew in Israel. Yeah, it's really, it's obscenely disgusting and it's suicidal by the way. You know. How about you uneducated, worthless, diploma toting Columbia grads take a look at the history of the Red Green alliance because they've come together many times through the years to overcome Western civilization. The minute they beat back the regime, they're trying to beat back the knives come, come out. And it's a fight between the commies and the Islamists who for to see who wins. And it's usually the Islamists who win because they're meaner.
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Jack Armstrong
I don't know. One of my favorite pundits. Hey, cnn, you have willfully misinformed your viewers. Yep, that's exactly what they did. Which is a good way of saying
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Joe Getty
lying viewers should say you're few viewers.
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Jack Armstrong
But I don't watch the news. Good, good choice, son. Especially cnn. More on the way. Stay here.
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Joe Getty
Armstrong and Gettys.
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Coming up, what the Democratic socialists of America are saying out loud and is being ignored. Speaking of the far left in America. Yes.
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Jack Armstrong
The national embarrassment is that US baseball losing to Italy is. Oh my Lord, a national embarrassment.
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Joe Getty
It's a humiliation. During wartime, no less. Yeah. So a couple of things about the modern world. Number one, I was just looking at an ad. I tried to save the num the picture but I was unsuccessful. And it's like cycled out. But it was a, I think it was called getfluent.com. it's a learn a language, you know, website app, whatever.
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Jack Armstrong
Bueno.
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Joe Getty
And, and it said it's all AI powered and it said real life scenarios, you know, role playing games, fluency, blah, blah, blah. But the illustration, the picture, the AI picture of it was a woman dressed as a princess or a princess bride or a fairy princess, Pixis pixie, space bride or something in bed in the loving arms of a robot. So were they like trying to combine a bunch of different thoughts like hey, hey, listen. These real life role playing things is like if you want to get laid in a foreign country, but because it's an AI thing we're going to have a robot. So if you've ever wanted to sex up a foreign robot, this is the language service. It was just mystifying. I didn't get it. And the second thing is you were unwilling to do the hard work Jack about why that new emoji has been canceled or apologized for or something.
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Jack Armstrong
Right? There are eight new emojis Apple has dropped. Enjoy them.
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Joe Getty
And it was, you were quite right. The explanation was so banal and stupid. And it's that it kind of the, like a distorted face kind of resembles that controversial smashing piano or guitar or whatever ad for the iPad that came out that people were aghast about. People were upset because it looked like they were smashing ways to create Art and saying, use the iPad instead.
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Jack Armstrong
Right?
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Joe Getty
Exactly. And it was stupid and sucky and I hated it. But what does it say about the modern world that somebody could look at that emoji and pretend to be outraged, that it kind of resembles that ad that they were pretending to be outraged about, or some people may have been. The idea that I'm unhappy, therefore you will listen to me has become ubiquitous,
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Jack Armstrong
I think, especially online.
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Joe Getty
If I'm bitching, I will be listened to.
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Jack Armstrong
I think eventually psychologists are going to understand or we're going to break down. There's like online outrage, which isn't real. It is like half an inch deep. And then there's real outrage in your life. But online outrage is basically fake and performative, and you don't think about it in real life.
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Joe Getty
Right? You're quite right. If you engage in that, I'm sending you a sad trombone emoji. You're a pathetic case.
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Armstrong and Getty.
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His tongue is long and his judgment is sharp. Ladies and gentlemen, the great Gene Simmons.
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Gene Simmons
Because everybody in the world should listen what actors and comedians say because they're so qualified. Basically, shut the up, do your art and shut up. Nobody's interested in your opinions. That includes me, who I vote for, who I like, who the do you think you are? People in America work hard for their living and they don't want to be lectured to by people who live in mansions and drive Rolls Royces. It's time for everybody in the entertainment industry to shut their pie hole.
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Jack Armstrong
There you go.
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Joe Getty
If somebody had told me in 1978, you know who one of the most reasonable, patriotic people in show business is? Gene Simmons. I just said the guy with the tongue and the blood. So I heard he is actually semi. Seriously, if you don't know this, he is the son of immigrants. In fact, he may. Was he born on foreign soil in the old country? I can't remember. He is a fierce patriot. He loves this country so much. Love Gene Simmons.
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Jack Armstrong
So I was watching one of my favorite pundits. He leans left, but he said about the war in Iran, I thought it was kind of interesting. It took one country to start it. The United States launched it. It'll take. There are three involved in ending it, though. We could decide we're done, but that doesn't mean Israel's done and it doesn't mean Iran's done. We could. We could decide we're done. But Iran could keep trying to keep the Strait of Hormuz closed, which is going to be. That's not an option. For the world. It's not an option for the world for that to be closed. So that's quite the bargaining chip that they've got right now. They tried to mine it yesterday. They sent out a whole bunch of ships with mines to make sure no oil tankers could go through there. We obliterated 16 of those. But still, you can't get ships to go through, because I heard a captain interviewed saying, well, one, I've got to worry about my crew, and two, the company that owns this ship and the oil does not want to risk the capital. So, no, we're not going through until it's known to be safe. So 20% of the oil shipping in this world is currently strangled.
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Joe Getty
Yeah.
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Jack Armstrong
And I don't know how that's going to stop unless we can hit all the targets that involve missiles or rockets that can shoot at those ships.
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Joe Getty
I was going to say, yeah, two possibilities. Number one, we decimate them so completely that they really don't pose a threat anymore. But that would. Oh, man, that's. The ships have to pass within about 10 miles of the coast of Iran. So that would be really hard to do because it's pretty easy. Potshot with modern weapons, I guess. And the second possibility is somehow this all comes to a negotiated conclusion that people believe, people in shipping believe, and they start sailing through the Strait.
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Jack Armstrong
Well, a negotiated conclusion, to my earlier point, that is agreed upon not just by us, but is agreed upon by Iran and Israel.
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Joe Getty
Correct.
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Jack Armstrong
Because Israel could say, I don't like this deal you and Iran made. We're going to keep fighting, which makes the Strait of Hormuz continue to be unsafe.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, tough nut to crack. And I'd say, I don't know if it's ironically exactly, but semi ironically. That was one of the reasons that we and Israel finally decided to take out the regime, was that they were threatening to close the gates of Hormu, the Strait of Hormuz, as a tactic whenever they were pissed off about anything. And we thought, all right, no, that's just not acceptable. We can't have a regime living there that has an on off switch for such an important, you know, sea passage.
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Jack Armstrong
Okay, I got a quick little homework assignment for you, Katie, and then we'll move on to whatever it was Joe had. I just saw this up on the television. The hot water trend taking off on social media. You can figure out what that is.
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Joe Getty
No, it's not.
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Jack Armstrong
We will talk about it coming up. When.
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Joe Getty
When we need to have a pool. What is the date? Be specific. Now, I'M saying June of this year, June 7, that nobody will ever click on a story that says the hot new trend on whatever social media is.
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Jack Armstrong
Some people's appetite for that seems to be endless.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, that's fine. Don't let them vote. All right.
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Jack Armstrong
Did you already nail it down? Do you want the payoff? What's the hot water trend on social media?
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Joe Getty
People are drinking warm water because it kickstarts your gut in the morning. Shut up.
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Jack Armstrong
I don't know if it does anything, but I do that. I prefer warm water. I prefer room temperature water to cold water.
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Joe Getty
That's perverse.
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Jack Armstrong
That's just.
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Joe Getty
Yeah. If you'd said I prefer to couple with farm animals than human women, I would have thought more highly of you than I do at this moment.
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Jack Armstrong
What?
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Joe Getty
You drink warm water?
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Jack Armstrong
That's bizarre. I just filled up my water bottle at the machine, so I put half cold and half hot to get it to room temperature. You.
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Joe Getty
Wow, Jack, you are fascinating.
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Jack Armstrong
Always order my water at the restaurant if it's the sort of place where you could do this with no ice. Because then, Michael, this is.
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Joe Getty
This, like. This is the first time I've ever heard this. And all the years I've worked with Jack. I know. It's like seeing your father at a leather club or something. It's just so disorienting.
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Jack Armstrong
Didn't realize this minor point would be so controversial.
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Joe Getty
Sick, sick.
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Jack Armstrong
I don't know.
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Joe Getty
Speaking of sick and voting. Moving along. Jack's a weirdo and a pervert. Everybody knows no need to dwell, dwell
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Jack Armstrong
no need to dwell on it all because I like room temperature water. That's.
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Joe Getty
That's. There's. You know what? I think there's probably something anthropological going on here. Human beings knew no cold new and no cold water is less likely to be rancid. And so we're drawn to drink it. But you, as the caveman who really ought to be booted out of the cave, are lapping up this fetid, algae choked, gross pond water, right?
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Jack Armstrong
Whatever's left in a. In a. Indentation in the road, right? Little puddle.
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Joe Getty
My God. On his hands and knees with a straw in the middle of the road.
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Jack Armstrong
Got mosquito eggs in it. And you look at it an angle, it's got that rainbowy oil look to it. That's what I'm drinking. They're all.
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Joe Getty
Yeah. I fired you as my new ghostwriter to slander you. That's very handy. Speaking of odd behavior, the National Review had a great piece recently where they were taking a serious look at The Democratic Socialists of America to whom Zoran Muhammadani squares allegiance, and a handful of other politicians who are running for office across the country. And a lot of young people support them at all. And they're just becoming a presence on the scene that people don't really question. And they point out in the review that the slightest bit of digging into the DSA's leadership, communications, publications and activities reveal that the DSA is nothing less than an anti American subversion campaign rooted in Marxist ideas and maintaining terrorist sympathies. They don't even try to hide it. And why should they? They write in the review, like all good Marxists, they believe that their revolution is imminent and inevitable. They vow that Mumdani's victory is just the beginning of, quote, a political movement of and for the working class that can defeat the oligarchy and win the political revolution. Okay, congratulations Karl Marx, that's great. But when you get down into the nitty gritty, they are absolutely calling for the end of capitalism. Even though the New York Times is for some reason running interference for them, saying that no, they don't really want to end all capitalism, but their very platform says in overcoming the old barbaric order of capitalism, the working class will not only liberate itself from its own shackles, but all of humanity from the parasitic death drive of capitalism. That doesn't sound like a position that has a lot of wiggle room in it. No, the parasitic death drive of capitalism as the capital. As capitalism's climate crisis ravages the whole earth, the well being of the working classes ultimately aligned with the survival of the whole planet, blah, blah, blah. They are proud endorsers of Hamas of October 7th and actually one of their founders, Maurice Isserman. Isserman, who quit after the leading figures in the party celebrated the hamas attacks on 10-7-23, has described the rise of the entries Communists who are now a majority on the National Political Committee of the DSA which is their ruling body. The national co chairwoman of the political committee, effectively the leader of the dsa, Megan Romer, is a self professed proud member of the Red Star Caucus which describes itself as one of several Marxist Leninist subgroups within the dsa. I don't get, and I really would like to understand it, I think the desperate fear of being an outlier is greater in human beings than I realize because I don't give a crap if I'm seen as an outlier. Seriously, it's absolutely in front of us that Zoran Mamdani, for instance, is an Islamist And a Marxist or he's an Islamist with sympathies for Marxism because they're going to help him overthrow the system. And that this political party that's actually getting people elected around the country is a hardcore Marxist organization that wants to bring down the United States and end the free markets. That is an enormous story. Why is it not being reported? Is it sympathy with them among a lot of media figures or they just don't want to say anything that sounds crazy, like I'm some sort of crazy right winger.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. And I think it's too complicated for a lot of people. Yeah. To, to, to, to complex a story.
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Joe Getty
Well, we're screwed as a society.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Well, yeah. I'm not arguing with that.
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Joe Getty
We're screwed, we're doomed. We're screamed. On the other hand, your beloved dog is not. I've got a call they're gonna be healthier than ever.
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Jack Armstrong
A couple of kind of breaking news stories to tell you about right after Rough Greens.
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Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
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Joe Getty
Well done. Well done.
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Jack Armstrong
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Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
First one this breaking. The New York Times reports the Pentagon has preliminarily concluded that the US was responsible for a strike on that school in Iran. Which is horrible, but the sort of thing that unfortunately happens in wars. And as I heard an Iranian journalist say, our own government has killed many multiples of these just in the last couple of months.
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Joe Getty
So yeah, I don't have any problem with just saying, look, it was a terrible targeting error. It is literally right next door to a Republican Guard on purpose and on purpose. Right. And we regrettably hit the school. And we will work to minimize that sort of mistake as hard as we possibly can. We certainly regret it. There's nothing wrong with that. It happens in war. It's a tragedy, but it happens.
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Jack Armstrong
Absolutely awful. But if you're going to make the argument that it's better the United States didn't do that because we hit that school and leave the regime in place that murdered 30,000 people just a couple of weeks ago. What?
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Joe Getty
That's bizarre and idiotic. It is.
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Jack Armstrong
Here's the other breaking news story. I think it's pretty obvious what's going on here. I hope this doesn't happen.
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Joe Getty
The US Baseball team isn't in Leavenworth, are they? Is Trump in prison?
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Jack Armstrong
I'm for that. Traitors to their country. Oh. Senator John Cornyn, Republican, Texas, reverses his long standing stance urging Republicans to scrap the 60 vote threshold known as the filibuster to pass Trump's voter ID bill before the midterms, which would blow up the Senate, turn it into just another hundred members of the House, and all legislation would just be majority rule from that point on. And it would be awful. But he's in a tight race, remember, with that other guy. And it's all about who Trump gives the nod to because Trump has said, I'm going to pick one of these guys and then the other one should get out of the race.
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Joe Getty
Right.
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Jack Armstrong
So he's trying to play to Trump's favor right there with this and have get the nod for Trump. But if it ends up blowing up the filibuster, that is a disaster. I hated it when Democrats wanted to do it. I hated it when Republicans want to do it.
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Joe Getty
To get whipsawed back and forth between wildly different policies even more than we are now.
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Jack Armstrong
Right. The world's greatest deliberative body would just be another house.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, it's dysfunctional now for sure. But, man, you've given up the game if you end the filibuster.
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Jack Armstrong
Absolutely. That's, that's a big one if that actually happens. All right, more on the way. Stay here.
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Joe Getty
Armstrong and Getty.
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The 2026 Camel Beauty Show Festival was held last month in Oman, and at least 20 camels were disqualified because they had received cosmetic enhancements. I knew, I knew those humps weren't real. I get it. So one more quick note on the dsa, the Democratic Socialists of America, they call for demilitarizing the police, end prosecution for all misdemeanors abolishing all prisons which are seen as instruments of capitalist oppression, therefore opening the border completely. And have long co hosted events and shared staff with organizations sanctioned by the U.S. canada and Europe as terrorist organizations. That's the DSA and nobody's talking about it. Anyway, that's enough of that.
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Jack Armstrong
Have you ever been to the Hong Kong Gentleman's Club in Tijuana?
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Joe Getty
Oh, many times. Oh, the memories.
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Jack Armstrong
No, it's one of your more famous brothels apparently in Tijuana right across the Mexican border. If you don't know your geography. Well, I mean it is right across the border from San Diego. You can take a little trolley walk there. Apparently if you had had gone to this brothel, you might have been side by side with a bishop, Catholic bishop there who has had to resign for not only taking money from the church, $250,000 they're claiming, but also making several trips to Mexican brothels there in Tijuana. Bishop Emmanuel shalita, he's a 70 year old pontiff from San Diego. He has resigned and the Pope has accepted his resignation.
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Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
because he's a, well, he's a money stealing horn dog.
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Joe Getty
Is one of Jason Thief.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I mean I'd rather, I mean there's a, there's another one east coast someplace. I didn't get to this story. Another one of those uncovered a whole bunch of years, decades long priests abusing boys story. Another one of those that you just, just blow your mind how you can have that kind of institutional cover up going on for so long. So at least this guy was going down to Tijuana and sexing up sex workers who presumably are doing it on purpose as opposed to, you know, you're sending your kid to the Catholic Church
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Joe Getty
to be a choir boy.
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Jack Armstrong
Anyway, this guy sold $250,000 and he was a regular. He would take a private shuttle that was supposed to be used by various higher ups there in the Catholic Church and he would take this private shuttle to the Hong Kong Gentleman's Club in Tijuana in the red light district and do his thing there, I guess. Anyway, despite the damning allegations, a large crowd of supporters appeared in court yesterday. So many it required some advocates for booting him out who wanted him booted out because of the fact that he was stealing money from the church and whatnot. They had to sit outside because there were so many supporters there, which is interesting.
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Joe Getty
Good gracious. So the guy steals money from the church, spends it on Mexican hoes. Yet a substantial part of the congregation is sticking with him out of love
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Jack Armstrong
for him because he seemed like a nice guy and his. Apparently his sermons were really popular. He was arrested back a week or so ago, March 6, at the San Diego International Airport when he attempted to board a flight to Germany with $9,000 in his bag. I don't know why he was going to Germany with nine grand to minister to the Germans. But he was charged with eight counts of embezzlement, eight counts of money laundering, and one count of aggravated. Aggravated white collar crime enhancement. I don't know what that is. I don't know if it had anything to do with the horse. Maybe if he got tired of the Mexican horse and won some German horse. Could be that.
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Joe Getty
Could be. They're famous. The German half of them are engineers.
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Jack Armstrong
It's amazing how. I mean, this fits in right, with the whole Catholic ideology or everything they teach. It's amazing how fallible human beings are. Can be all of us. We all have that in us.
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Joe Getty
Yeah.
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Jack Armstrong
How do you. How do you, step by step, get so off track that you're stealing a quarter million dollars from the church? I would think the fact that you're there on a regular basis working with the poor, seeing people who are really struggling in variety of ways, whether it's illness or handicap or all the different kinds of bad things that can happen to people in your t and people donating money to help with that, and you can still steal that money. How cynical do you have to get to be able to do that?
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Joe Getty
Or corrupted by sin? I think if Jesus were among us now. And no, I don't claim to be able to channel him with authority, but I think he'd say that's the power of sin. Don't let it into your life because it will ruin everything you think you are.
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Jack Armstrong
Next thing you know, you're at the Hong Kong Gentleman's Club in Tijuana.
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Joe Getty
Sounds classy, though. Gentlemen, Gentlemen's club. I sure. Let's stop in.
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Jack Armstrong
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Joe Getty
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