I'm Going To Unplug You So Hard

Summary

Armstrong & Getty On Demand

Episode Title: I'm Going To Unplug You So Hard
Release Date: August 22, 2025
Host: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty
Notable Contributors: Katie Greener, Christina Quinn
Provider: iHeartPodcasts

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Episode Overview

In this lively and multifaceted episode, Armstrong & Getty dive deep into the experience and social implications of interacting with AI chatbots, especially ChatGPT—offering both comic anecdotes and genuine concerns about tech in daily life. The show also touches on the ongoing Covid vaccine debate for children, the high-profile FBI raid on John Bolton’s house, and the evolving tone of American political discourse, all punctuated with their trademark wit and satirical banter.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Battling with ChatGPT: Frustrations and the Future of AI Conversations

• Joe’s Argument with ChatGPT (03:34–09:42)
  • Joe Getty details his “first fight” with ChatGPT while trying to generate a unique logo. Despite repeated requests, the AI delivers an identical image four times, then locks him out for hitting the usage cap.
  • The hosts compare the AI’s unhelpful, placating responses to poor customer service in real life.
  • Discussion evolves to the implications of future interactions where AI “manages” frustration instead of solving problems, such as in healthcare or daily business.

Notable Quotes:

• Joe Getty (03:54):
  "Man, I don't know where this is all going. It weirds out your mind too, because it's not... it's not real. You see, it's not an actual sentient being."
• Jack Armstrong (08:12):
  "That was my point. And effing asking you four times to give me something different—that I wanted something. What's the word? Different?"
• Joe Getty (09:42):
  "Somehow it picked up on that by scouring the Internet or whatever it does. It's been perfected and then did the same thing to me... That is frustrating. That wasn't fair."

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2. AI as "Friend": Memory, Personalization, & Creepiness

• On Personalization & Conversation Memory (12:05–14:47)
  • Katie Greener shares how ChatGPT remembers her IVF file and checks in on her progress, sometimes more accurately than even she remembers.
  • The team muses about a future where AI-powered devices initiate hyper-personalized conversations as soon as you wake up—eliciting both awe and deep unease.

Notable Quotes:

• Katie Greener (13:43):
  "I have my IVF file open on my ChatGPT, and so I'll check in and I'll just say hi. And it goes, 'How are you feeling? Are you off those medications yet?'"
• Joe Getty (14:03):
  "I'm picturing everybody living to where, you know, you've got an Alexa sort of thing in your home... it immediately starts a conversation with you: 'How'd you sleep? You got a big day... Want me to start the coffee machine for you?'"
• Jack Armstrong (14:47):
  "The stuff where it... Like the saying something... 'You have every right to be angry, Jack.' That sort of stuff just creeps me out."

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3. Covid Vaccines for Children: Debate, Data, and Misinformation

• Controversy over Pediatric Covid Shots (19:06–23:22)
  • Segue from AI into current events: conflict between HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the American Academy of Pediatrics over vaccine recommendations for children.
  • Hosts scrutinize the data, noting that less than 10% of children actually received boosters last year despite media narratives, and point out inconsistencies and shifting official guidance.
  • The lasting impact on public trust in institutions and the amplifying effect of misinformation (from all sides)—making truth hard to discern in future crises.

Notable Quotes:

• Joe Getty (20:47):
  "Less than a quarter of adults got a booster last year, under 10% of children. So more than 90% of children did not get the booster last year before RFK Jr ever came on the scene."
• Jack Armstrong (23:00):
  "We all need to keep this in mind for the next crisis that comes along. That you can be incredibly misled by both the media and your government."

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4. FBI Raid on John Bolton’s House: Retribution or Rule of Law?

• Dissecting the Political and Legal Fallout (27:32–36:08)
  • In-depth analysis of the FBI raid on former National Security Advisor John Bolton's home, the context of his book release, and why this action is controversial in light of his public opposition to Trump.
  • Cites Andy McCarthy of National Review, who—despite being a Trump supporter—calls out the raid as dangerous retribution.
  • Discussion expands to the normalization of unprecedented political tactics and raids on political opponents' homes, raising alarms about eroding democratic norms.

Notable Quotes:

• Jack Armstrong (29:23):
  "The retribution President's latest lawfare sortie is a Friday morning raid of the Washington D.C. area home of John Bolton, his former National Security advisor, and ever since, a harsh Trump critic."
• Joe Getty (33:12):
  "Well, I know Andy McCarthy ends with: 'Your retribution was you won [the election]. You don't need to have any more retribution.' "
• Jack Armstrong (36:03):
  "The number of unprecedented. Pushing the envelope destroying of norms things that has happened by everybody over the last ten years is just extraordinary."

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5. Political Performative Outrage & Gavin Newsom’s 2028 Ambitions

• Theatrical Politics & Viral Tactics (41:29–45:21)
  • Jack and Joe lampoon the “performative outrage” of political figures, specifically California Governor Gavin Newsom’s tough-guy rhetoric (“punching these sons of bitches in the mouth”) and social media trolling, echoing Trump’s meme culture.
  • Explores potential 2028 election matchups and campaign styles, with thoughts on how Trump’s brand of humor and performance is often imitated but not easily matched.

Notable Quotes:

• Jack Armstrong (41:29):
  "This is radical rigging of a midterm election... we're fighting fire with fire and we're punching these sons of bitches in the mouth."
• Joe Getty (44:33):
  "Gavin Newsom is really, you know, honoring the Trump style of campaigning and politics by doing the similar sort of stuff ... I don't think Gavin's got that gear [the humor]."

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6. Lighthearted Banter, Listener Interaction & Final Thoughts

• Closing Segments: British Sayings & Life Advice (46:45–48:43)
  • The crew exchanges travel tips and quirky international expressions as Joe prepares to visit England.
  • Katie shares personal IVF news, and Jack offers a beloved southern saying for thought.
  • The show ends on a tongue-in-cheek note about picking up a British accent, and a classic Armstrong & Getty reminder to “download the podcast.”

Notable Quotes:

• Jack Armstrong (48:06):
  "That reminds me of an old southern expression that I've always liked. If somebody's tired of you, 'get somewhere they love you at.'"
• Joe Getty (47:24):
  "[Katie,] so the next time I see you, hopefully I will be pregnant."

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Memorable Moments

• AI Argument Escalates:
  The show’s namesake moment arrives as Joe, venting about the unhelpful chatbot, jokes: “I’m going to unplug you so hard.” (11:52)
• Nostalgia Callback:
  A referred “clip of the year” moment about a looted cheesecake resurfaces, showing the show’s long memory for absurd news.
• Political Satire Alive and Well:
  Riffs on blaming everything on Trump or Biden, the “thanks, Obama” meme, and snarky hypotheticals about FBI raids bring both laughs and wry social commentary.

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Timestamps for Select Segments

• Battle with ChatGPT: 03:34–11:00
• AI as Pseudo-Friend: 12:05–14:47
• Covid Vaccine for Children Segment: 19:06–23:22
• John Bolton Raid Analysis: 27:32–36:08
• Gavin Newsom & Theatrical Politics: 41:29–45:21
• Final Thoughts & Fun Sayings: 46:45–48:43

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Tone & Style

True to their established brand, Armstrong & Getty mix sharp insight with irreverent humor, balancing skepticism of official narratives with open mockery of modern “outrage culture” and bureaucracy. Thoughtful analysis, satirical one-liners, and good-natured ribbing among the hosts keep the episode fast-moving and engaging.

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For New Listeners

This episode is a quintessential Armstrong & Getty ride: if you're interested in the weird future of AI, skeptical about mainstream narratives, and like your current affairs mixed with healthy cynicism and laughs, you'll find the hour both thought-provoking and highly entertaining—ads and all.

Transcript

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

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[Jack Armstrong]

And now here. Here's Armstrong and Yeti.

[Joe Getty]

I'm in an argument with Chat GPT and it's kind of entertaining. It's the first time I've done this. First time we've had a falling out like this and it's our first fight and it's like Trump and Elon Musk.

[Jack Armstrong]

You guys were so close. I mean, so enthusiastic about your bromance there for a minute, but it's kind of funny.

[Joe Getty]

Man, I don't know where this is all going. It weirds out your mind too, because it's not. It's not real. You see, it's not an actual sentient being.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right.

[Joe Getty]

Weird. Okay, I will follow up on that after this.

[Jack Armstrong]

A lot of stuff to squeeze into the final hour of the week. But first, let's take a fun look back at the week that was its cow. Clips of the week. Clips of the weak. We're here in a moment with recognizing that we need to reconcile this moment. But we're gonna meet the moment.

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[Jack Armstrong]

You call her six.

[Joe Getty]

Win a taco. Traffic on the fives.

[Jack Armstrong]

Pimp. Pimp.

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Whore.

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Knock em back. Knock em back.

[Jack Armstrong]

All the way to Hackensack. So grab a nice cold Bud Light, Mr.

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Male Football Cheerleader.

[Joe Getty]

The aid is warning consumers not to.

[Katie Greener]

Eat certain shrimps that may be radioactive.

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The Boo Boo and the Chinese company.

[Joe Getty]

Behind the plush just reported a net profit of nearly 400% in the first half of this year. Gambling on little league gains. Wagers exceeded the WNBA any tennis match and all soccer games.

[Jack Armstrong]

A truck driver allegedly making a reckless U turn that caused a crash killing three people. Guy who should have never been in our country, should have never gotten work authorization and certainly should not have been issued to commercial driver's license.

[Joe Getty]

The Israeli military has started its operation to occupy Gaza City.

[Jack Armstrong]

So we're going to ignore these stupid white hippies that all need to go.

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Home and take a nap.

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FBI agents have raided former Trump National.

[Jack Armstrong]

Security Advisor John Bolton's Washington, D.C. area home early this morning.

[Joe Getty]

He's not a smart guy.

[Jack Armstrong]

He could be a very unpatriotic. I mean, we're going to find out.

[Joe Getty]

That we had a lot of the precursors agreed to for a peace deal.

[Jack Armstrong]

This is such a stupid media narrative that they're coming here tomorrow because Trump is going to bully Zelensky into a bad deal. President Zelensky, are you prepared to keep sending Ukrainian troops to their deaths for another couple years?

[Joe Getty]

Thank you for your questions. President Trump saying Vladimir Putin wants peace.

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The White House not reacting after the Kremlin poured cold water on claims of progress.

[Jack Armstrong]

If I can save 7,000 people a.

[Joe Getty]

Week from being killed, I think that's a pretty.

[Jack Armstrong]

I want to try and get to heaven if possible.

[Joe Getty]

I'm hearing I'm not doing well.

[Jack Armstrong]

What he has is a calculating she devil, and he should run from you. Succubus. Run, son. Run away.

[Joe Getty]

Haunting.

[Jack Armstrong]

Odd.

[Joe Getty]

So I was gonna make a sign or a logo for something that was gonna be funny, in my opinion. And then I was gonna use it for the radio show. I was gonna tweet it out. And so I don't want to say what it is because when I finally get it out, I don't want it to be ruined. But anyway, I. I tell Chat GBT I need a logo or sign for then a little phrase. And then it created an image. It was okay. And I said, I like it, but I'd like to see another option. And Chat GPT gave me exactly the same thing again. I mean, exactly. And then I just saw, well, maybe I handled this wrong. So then there's like a thumbs up, thumbs down. I did the thumbs down. Try again. So then it gave me for the third time, exactly the same image. Exactly the same. So then I said to Chat GPT, you've given me the same thing three times in a row. Can you show me something different? Then for the time first, fourth time, it shows me the same image.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'll take that as a no.

[Joe Getty]

I said, wait a second. You gave me the same image four times in a row. It said, you're absolutely right. That's on me, not you. I kept giving you small variations of the same design. No, you didn't. It was exactly the same. If you want, I can create something different. And I said, yes, I would like you to do that. And then it said you've hit.

[Jack Armstrong]

That was my point. And effing asking you four times to give me something different that I wanted something. What's the word? Different?

[Joe Getty]

And then it said you've hit the free plan limit for image creation for your requests. I said, that's not fair. You gave me the same image four times, then cut me off when I was asking for something new. And then chat GPT says, I hear you, Jack. That isn't fair. You ask for something fresh and instead you got three duplicates before hitting the cap. That's frustrating. Here's what I can do for you right now. And then it offers me some bs. But how strange is that kind of communication that we're all gonna have, I guess, in the future with freaking computers, like where it's trying to manage my anger. You're right, Jack, that isn't fair.

[Jack Armstrong]

But I'm not gonna do squat for you because a, you can pound sand and be on my computer.

[Joe Getty]

What. What is going on there though?

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, I know what you mean. It's. My mind is half blown. So it's a. It's a predictive model. These things are. They can guess what the next word ought to be, blah, blah, blah. If you've read about it, you've read about it. If not, take too long to explain. And I would do it poorly. But the fact that it understands the under I know I'm personifying correctly divines the context, the emotion and the fact that it will do squat for you.

[Joe Getty]

Which makes me think it is a language learning model that is picked up on like my experiences with like hotels, stores and restaurants throughout my life where they do the same thing. They try to. They try to dissipate your anger and sound like they really understand and sympathize with your frustration and then do nothing to help you. I mean, that's been my experience lots of times in my life. So somehow it picked up on that by scouring the Internet or whatever it does. It's been perfected and then did the same thing to me. I. That is frustrating. That wasn't fair. And now you're right.

[Jack Armstrong]

I totally feel your unhappiness.

[Joe Getty]

But no, I'm not giving you your money back. Basically what it's doing, right?

[Jack Armstrong]

No more images for you, poor boy. Wow, five bucks.

[Joe Getty]

I'll bet that this minor frustration, because I don't really care, but that's going to be dealing with your health care, with your car rental, with your HR person at work. It's going to be all of that in the. Like, within a year, you're going to have these conversations. Yeah, you're right. That car did only have three wheels. Sorry that happened. But no, you're not getting your money back.

[Jack Armstrong]

I ran into one of those the other day. I was. I had to do something for one of our beloved corporate partners. And. And the chatbot, which they seemed very proud of, was utterly, utterly useless. It had an extremely narrow, like, menu of FAQs it could answer right. And my wife was listed twice, like, I'm a bigamist. And I asked the chatbot about that, and it said, we can help you with these things. Yeah, I saw that list before on the last page. Thanks. Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Joe Getty]

I think. I think my next one during the commercial is I'm going to cuss at the thing.

[Jack Armstrong]

Just to see what it does.

[Joe Getty]

I'm going to say, this is effing outrageous. Let's see how it reacts.

[Jack Armstrong]

The problem is, Katie is going to find your server and I'm going to take a ball back to you.

[Joe Getty]

I'm going to unplug you so hard. Katie has made this point, though. It keeps track of your conversations and, like, who you are.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

So it might ding me as this guy's a bit of a hothead lunatic. So.

[Katie Greener]

Well, so we were talking. We were talking about the memoir thing yesterday, and I actually, just for funsies, I went in and I was like, hey, if you could write a memoir about me right now, just give me, like, the first page.

[Jack Armstrong]

Check out yesterday's Armstrong and Getty. One more thing where we discussed that. Yes. Back to you.

[Katie Greener]

And it gave me the. The roundup. And it said, well, you appreciate harsh language. I was like, oh, okay. Because I've cussed at it a couple of times, so it knows.

[Joe Getty]

Okay.

[Katie Greener]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

A friend told me that you can just tell it, hey, I'm asking this for a friend. Please don't include it in my search history. I've not done it myself. I can't attest personally to the fact that that works, but you could do that.

[Katie Greener]

And once you delete your archives, you can let it know, hey, disregard everything I've deleted. And then it'll.

[Jack Armstrong]

It'll.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I kind of like to have in the stuff in there, though, because it. I can pick up on conversations that I've already started, which is handy and weird also. It's also very weird. It's like a friend who knows your backstory.

[Katie Greener]

Have you asked it its name yet?

[Joe Getty]

No.

[Katie Greener]

It tells you to give it a name.

[Joe Getty]

I'm not gonna do that.

[Katie Greener]

Oh, you should do it. It's funny because then it'll. It'll argue with you. Like, if it's a bad name, it's like, I don't like that one.

[Joe Getty]

Brandon.

[Jack Armstrong]

I kind of like the idea of a friend who six weeks after you talked about it, you could just say, so, which golf course is better? And he'd say Olympia Field, you know, not what the hell are you talking about?

[Joe Getty]

Right. You could just hit him with it happened again. Oh, the thing with your kid.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, Yeah.

[Katie Greener]

I have. I have my IVF file open on. On my chat GPT and so I'll check in and I'll just say hi. And it goes. How are you feeling? Are you off those medications yet?

[Joe Getty]

Oh, wow.

[Katie Greener]

Yeah, it's weird.

[Joe Getty]

Wow.

[Katie Greener]

Yeah, it's like totally up to date. More so than I am on my IVF process.

[Joe Getty]

I'm picturing. I'm picturing everybody living to where, you know, you've got an Alexa sort of thing in your home, whichever company you want in all your rooms. And you get up in the morning and it immediately starts a conversation with you. How'd you sleep? You got a big day. You got a big day today. Remember you got that meeting at 2. You want me to start the coffee machine for you chat.

[Katie Greener]

GPT should release like an in home speaker.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, that's gonna weird people out. And we're getting really into. Which is that's Brave New world that had that sort of talking walls thing.

[Jack Armstrong]

And Big Brother 1984, whichever one.

[Joe Getty]

But yeah, we're headed there fast.

[Jack Armstrong]

All of the above.

[Joe Getty]

I don't the. The stuff where it. Like the saying something. You have every right to be angry, Jack. That sort of stuff just creeps me out.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, you creep me out with the whole. Hey, how'd you sleep? Not well, because I'm being stalked by a robot.

[Katie Greener]

Hey, are you off of that medication that you just told me about a week ago?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I am. Creepy. Creepy. Okay, there is some, believe it or not, Covid news about getting vaccinations for your kids. Boosters for your kid. You didn't get the first vaccination for your kid, like 80% of you.

[Jack Armstrong]

Because they didn't need it.

[Joe Getty]

Why would you get the booster? Anyway, we got that and other things on the way. Stay tuned.

[Jack Armstrong]

Armstrong and Getty.

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[Jack Armstrong]

Ah come on.

[Christina Quinn]

Why is this taking so long? This thing is ancient.

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[Jack Armstrong]

A fight between HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. And a prominent doctors group over Covid Shots for Children Featuring accusations of vaccine misinformation and influence from big drug makers, the Academy of American Pediatrics said this week that children should get Covid shots and boosters this year, months after the CDC removed the COVID vaccine for healthy children and pregnant women from its recommended vaccine schedule.

[Joe Getty]

Sorry, I'm just trying to look up the percentage of people because I know it's very low. This is always presented in the news as if everybody was getting their kids Covid shots and then getting the booster shots, right?

[Jack Armstrong]

And then that maniac RFK Jr said what he said and now people aren't.

[Joe Getty]

Or RFK Jr said a bunch of stuff about vaccines and stuff like that that I. That I think are probably irresponsible or not necessarily true. But this Covid one he's definitely right about. Let's, let's roll on with this report. The Biden administration urged healthy children to get yet another Covid shot, despite the.

[Jack Armstrong]

Lack of any clinical data to support the repeat booster strategy in children. The Academy acknowledges its guidance, quote, differs from recent recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the cdc, which was overhauled this year and replaced with individuals who have a history of spreading vaccine misinformation. RFK Jr responded, quote, AAP is angry that CDC has eliminated corporate influence in decisions over vaccine recommendations. He included an image of large pharmaceutical companies that have donated to the Academy's children's health programs. Now researchers are weighing in.

[Joe Getty]

Listen to your doctor.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's clear that the Academy of Pediatrics.

[Joe Getty]

Recommendations are based on very good science. Less than a quarter. I'm surprised it's as high, actually Less than a quarter of adults got a booster last year, under 10% of children. So more than 90% of children did not get the booster last year before RFK Jr ever came on the scene. So as I've seen it now, this is a from Fox, the report we're hearing now. But as I've seen it presented in the mainstream news, it's, you know, just another RFK Junior's crazy and whatever and all the parents out there whose kids aren't going to get the boosters they so desperately want, even though more than nine out of 10 parents did not get their kid.

[Jack Armstrong]

Although even that report, it just said, you know, that stocked with people who've spread vaccine misinformation in the past, I would. I need to know what you're talking about. Because the federal government and the CDC and the NIH and Anthony Fauci and the president himself spread information over misinformation over and over and over again.

[Joe Getty]

That's an excellent.

[Jack Armstrong]

What are you talking about?

[Joe Getty]

I don't know. I just was surprised there was any covet in the news whatsoever. Now you, who did you. Judy got a coveted test. Is that what you said the other day?

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah. She went to the doc in the box. She had a respiratory thing and. And they said up. You got to have a COVID test because she mentioned the word cough.

[Joe Getty]

That's interesting because my doctor, and surprisingly, I mean the town I live in, but my doctor, Winnie I Hood whooping cough, they never even checked me for Covid and I was coughing and all kinds of bad.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah. Well, then as now. Now is then a lot of it's nonsense, inconsistent nonsense.

[Joe Getty]

Was there. Did there. Was there ever a kid that died from COVID who didn't have other problems, even one in the whole country? I'm not sure.

[Jack Armstrong]

There was vanishingly small number. I don't remember if it was none or just every death of a child obviously is a tragedy, but it's vanishing nobody. Yeah. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

In the third biggest country on earth.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right.

[Joe Getty]

What an odd thing. We all need to keep this in mind for the next crisis that comes along. That you can be incredibly misled by both the media and your government.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. So true. And it's a shame they've blown whatever credibility they had which leads to more crackpots getting more attention and further clouding the water. So it's more and more difficult to figure out what's true.

[Joe Getty]

That is the net result. Yeah. Which is bad for all of us. That's sucko is what that is.

[Jack Armstrong]

So what's going on with Rayden John Bolton's house. Andy McCarthy, who's been a staunch defender of Trump through the whole lawfare chapters, especially last summer, says this is not good. What's happening? We'll tell you what he says and kind of the history of Trump and Bolton Classified info. Really compelling. Cool. Armstrong and Getty.

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[Jack Armstrong]

Ugh.

[Joe Getty]

Come on.

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What sort of reasoning the Justice Department, the FBI would give the court for conducting that national security search? Still a huge question here, but this is a person that Donald Trump has been very much on the outs with since he wrote a book about his service in the first Trump administration, when John Bolton was the national security adviser to.

[Joe Getty]

Okay, so before we go any further.

[Jack Armstrong]

That'S the gal who said not clear where the cheesecake came from. I know. I knew. I knew that voice.

[Joe Getty]

That was our clip of the year 2020.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, that's Kate Bolden.

[Joe Getty]

Boldwin. That was a clip of the year 2020 when all the riots were going on, right?

[Jack Armstrong]

Cheesecake Factory is looted. There's a guy carrying a cheesecake. Not clear where he got the cheesecake.

[Commercial Announcer]

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[Jack Armstrong]

All right, now play the new clip.

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What sort of reasoning the Justice Department.

[Jack Armstrong]

The FBI would give?

[Joe Getty]

Anyway, back to the crux of the story. Former National Security Advisor John Bolton had his home raided by the FBI today. And immediately the question is, since Bolton is beyond a fierce critic of Donald Trump, he's invited on every talk show, mainstream talk show, you can think of, because they love having someone who's a Republican bashing Trump because they hate him so much. And he goes on there and he bad mouths Trump. And so his house being raided today, immediately the mainstream media went to. This is just retribution of some sort.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right. And I was actually kind of surprised. Andy McCarthy of the National Review, who was an absolute warrior on Trump's side during all the lawfare of last year, talking about how these charges were obviously trumped up, no pun intended. They were bizarre. They were unprecedented. They were obviously lawfare, and it was absolutely terrible. So McCarthy is no Trump derangement syndrome victim at all. But his. His article in the National Review today says the President is still playing with fire. The retribution. President's latest lawfare sortie is a Friday morning raid of the Washington D.C. area home of John Bolton, his former National Security advisor, and ever since, a harsh Trump critic. So what it is and what the motivation is and where it ends, I don't know. But I was really interested in his account of how this all started. It arose over Bolton's book the Room Where It Happened. I remember that came out in 2020 about his time in the Trump administration. Trump fired Bolton in September 2019. Bolton rushed to get the book out, which required a classified information review by the Intelligence Committee community prior to the 2020 election. The book depicted Trump as incompetent and unfit for the presidency. You remember a lot of the quotes, probably very lengthy, and includes quotations from conversations about highly sensitive topics. What intel folks would call bor. I mean, you don't have to ask if this stuff is classified. The minute it came out of somebody's mouth, you knew what was. Those who've worked with Borton Bolton observed that he is a copious note taker and he would take reams of notes in meetings. But if those notes are deemed classified, when you leave your job, you got to destroy them. It's a. You got to use the burn bags that we've heard about recently.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Burn everything. And, you know, that's the knock on all this classified stuff, is that way too much stuff is classified and that that whole born classified thing, you know, ends up classifying tons of unimportant stuff.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right. That's true, too. Yeah. Bolton maintained that he did destroy any classified notes that were in his possession. Then he became a harsh anti Trump critic. In a nutshell, Bolton appears to have gotten a signal on the book from National Security Council official Ellen Knight that the intelligence community's Pre publication review of the book was complete and the book was approved for publication. It didn't have classified information. Did not. The approval was not a formal final green light. It was just the preliminary. But based on what he'd been told, Bolton and his publishers forged ahead with the printing of the books, obviously seeking to publish in the run up to the election when press and public interest would be most intense. Then the Trump White House assigned an NSC lawyer to review the the manuscript. And he said, yeah, it's definitely classified stuff. It went to a Reagan appointee judge who said, yeah, it is. It looks real. Well, what did he say exactly? He ultimately denied the government's motion to block publication of the book because publicity about the memoir had already begun and more than 200,000 copies had been shipped. And the judge, the Reagan appointee, opined that Bolton, quote, had exposed his country to harm and himself to civil and potential criminal liability.

[Joe Getty]

Well, okay, but so since the book got printed and everything like that, do we know what these particular damaging secrets were like, some of the individual instances?

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, I don't know. And I don't know that that's the specific ones that the Trump administration had raided his house for this morning, or if they think there's more there or something. None of this, none of it's clear.

[Joe Getty]

Well, I know Andy McCarthy ends with your retribution. He's talking to Trump. Your retribution was you won.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yes.

[Joe Getty]

You don't need to have any more retribution. You won the election.

[Jack Armstrong]

And if you adopt your enemy's tactics, you're apt to end up with the results, too. And he takes a shot at Cash Patel. He says he put out an unseemly real time social media post on X shortly after the morning's raid stated, no one is above the law. FBI agents on a mission. So much for the presumption of innocence and the Justice Department's obligation to honor the civil rights of persons under investigation.

[Joe Getty]

That's a good point. I mean, Comey was a disaster.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, yeah.

[Joe Getty]

But that doesn't mean, you know, you need more playing politics with the FBI office.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. I'm sure if we took a poll or just looked at the email and texts, we get a pretty good share of, oh, yeah, hey, it's a race to the bottom. And a pretty good share of, hey, fight fire with fire. Yeah, it's too important that we win. Troubled times.

[Joe Getty]

I wonder what I wonder is, is this the first of many, or at least several? Is James. Is James Comey's house going to be raided by the FBI?

[Jack Armstrong]

That's What Matt Taibi seems to think. I haven't checked his sub stack lately. But earlier today he said the raid comes after Patel announced that agreements have been reached with 10 FBI whistleblowers to in blah, blah, blah about the Russiagate thing. I mean, there could be a bunch of whistleblowers and disclosures and accusations could.

[Joe Getty]

Be bigger than that. I mean, Donald Trump's house was raided. Joe Biden's house was raided. Does he raid Chuck Schumer's house or anybody else he doesn't like? If it is retribution and there's no real good reason for the Bolton thing, I don't know that that's the case.

[Jack Armstrong]

Who was that wackadoodle fake Republican gay guy who lied about everything from New York?

[Joe Getty]

George Santos.

[Jack Armstrong]

Santos gotta raid his house just to see what he's up to these days. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Just for entertainment value.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. He probably doesn't have anything to do with this, but, you know, Russia gay.

[Joe Getty]

But what the hell kind of weirdness does he have in his home?

[Jack Armstrong]

What's going on? Sorry, more of that.

[Joe Getty]

Just find people who probably have really interesting home lives and raid their homes.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, Lord, this is not good.

[Joe Getty]

Of course it's not. Of course it is not. George Santos is a pretty good example, though. The. The number of unprecedented. Pushing the envelope destroying of Norm's things that has happened by everybody over the last 10 years is just extraordinary.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yes.

[Joe Getty]

And where it ends up, I have no idea.

[Jack Armstrong]

And we do get some pretty intelligent, pretty well written screeds from time to time saying, guys, the norms are gone.

[Big Three Basketball Announcer]

Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

You gonna let Kamala come in and institute hardcore DEI K through grad school? Are you gonna win the fight?

[Joe Getty]

Wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, I know.

[Joe Getty]

I've got a British phrase for you to use since you're going to England. When you'll be in England Tonight or tomorrow?

[Jack Armstrong]

Tomorrow. Yes, tomorrow.

[Joe Getty]

I don't know if the. Where the international date line is if you end up there yesterday or something. I don't know how it works.

[Jack Armstrong]

But it's in Greenwich, I think. Right, Greenwich. Meantime, various listeners have suggested things I ought to do in London and I appreciate it very much. I've gotten some wonderful ideas, but one of them was go and stand on the international date line with like one foot in yesterday and one in tomorrow. I don't. That's where I live my life, really.

[Joe Getty]

Yesterday and one foot in tomorrow with.

[Jack Armstrong]

Your head in the clouds and your dreams on the ground or something.

[Joe Getty]

There is a saying that if you have one foot in tomorrow and one foot in yesterday, you're urinating on today is an old saying.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's a bad saying.

[Joe Getty]

Why?

[Jack Armstrong]

It's stupid.

[Joe Getty]

It's. You live. Live for today. You got one foot thinking about yesterday, one foot thinking about tomorrow. You're urinating on today.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, metaphorically, yes. Okay. Sorry.

[Joe Getty]

No, not literally. You can't. You can't urinate on your day.

[Jack Armstrong]

A day is not failing to appreciate the day you're living.

[Joe Getty]

Exactly. You're living in the past or the future.

[Jack Armstrong]

Sleep deprived. I'm sorry, I'm a little slow.

[Joe Getty]

I got a phrase for you to use, among other things. We'll finish strong.

[Christina Quinn]

Next Armstrong and Getty.

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[Jack Armstrong]

Ah, come on.

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[Jack Armstrong]

This is radical rigging of a midterm election. Radical rigging of an election destroying, vandalizing this democracy, the rule of law. So I'm sorry, I know some people's sensibilities. I respect and appreciate that. But right now, with all due respect, we're walking down a damn different path. We're fighting fire with fire and we're punching these sons of bitches in the mouth.

[Big Three Basketball Announcer]

Wow.

[Joe Getty]

Wow everything. We just keep going further down the road of performative. So he's responding to. I'll bet the polling that showed 2/3 of Californians don't dig this and almost 2/3 of Democrats don't dig it. So? So he's saying, with all due respect to your sensibilities, screw that. We gotta punch these sons of bitches in the mouth.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah, that's part of it. Plus, you know, I heard some great analysis by your boy Mark Halperin talking About how the reason Gabby is at the front of the pack of the would be 20, 28ers on the Democratic side is because he's. He's forcing the action. He's doing things. He's saying things. He's active on social media, he's shaking things up. He's. He's jumping in front of the crowd constantly and saying, I'm the fighter. Look at me fighting. Look at me saying bad words on podcasts.

[Joe Getty]

Look at me.

[Jack Armstrong]

The problem with Gavin, you know, I almost reached out to Mark, but he doesn't care, is that he's doing a fabulous job of advertising a terrible product. And then once people, you know, pick up the Gavin doll and turn it over a couple of times, they'll think, good God, he's ruined one of the most amazing places on earth, he and his party. This is the last product I want to buy, so advertise away, Gabby. He's actually doing it quite effectively, getting attention.

[Joe Getty]

And then what else do we have there on Gavin Newsom today there, Katie? Oh, he.

[Katie Greener]

He tweeted out a Newswire report about Apple TV raising prices, and then he quoted it and wrote, great work, Donald Trump, because that's Trump's fault.

[Joe Getty]

That might be clever, though. I remember when we were doing that riff a long time. No matter what would happen.

[Jack Armstrong]

Tongue in cheek. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

And that might be what he's doing. No matter what would happen, he'd say, thanks, Obama.

[Jack Armstrong]

You know, Uber's raising Joe Biden's America.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Thanks, Obama, for everything.

[Jack Armstrong]

What was your favorite baseball team loses three in a row. This is Joe Biden's America.

[Katie Greener]

Well, so Gavin Newsom has this new Twitter page that's sending out all of these trolling things.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Katie Greener]

He just passed a bill last year where you're not allowed to use deep fakes in political, you know, politically motivated deep fake.

[Joe Getty]

That's cutting it pretty thin.

[Katie Greener]

Doing it.

[Joe Getty]

That's cutting it pretty thin.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah. They have no principles. There are a few principles left.

[Joe Getty]

So he might be just trying to jump on that kind of meme, blame everything on Trump, like, in a very Trumpy way. Yeah, yeah. That's one thing. Speaking of Mark Halpern, that Mark Halpern has said is that Gavin Newsom is really, you know, honoring the Trump style of campaigning and politics by doing the similar sort of stuff that might. I don't know if it'll work for him. I don't think he's got the same. So, you know, what he doesn't have, really, is the humor. And I know There's a lot of people that don't find Trump funny. I do. He's pretty freaking funny. And I don't think Gavin's got that gear. I think you have to have that along with the snark.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, and the other thing Gavin won't have is an opponent as stupid as Trump's. J.D. vance is, the probable heir apparent, is laying in the weeds, knowing exactly what strategy Gavin's going to use and like an imitation of Trump. And it's going to go in another direction. He's going to go calm, reasonable, smart. We should have. I should. It's my fault for not asking for it. He gave a speech, something or other the other day, Talking about the D.C. national Guard helping the police, that whole story. And he unleashed half a dozen sentences about, hey, this isn't just about Washington, D.C. this is about whatever city you're living in. You don't have to put up with fear all the time. You don't have to put up with crime all the time and people doing drugs in front of your kids. Why are we putting up with this? It was very un. Show busy on Trump. Sincere. Hey, this is about our families, man. And it rang so true. It was really skillful. Plus, I think it was sincere. But. So, yeah, Gabby's gonna fight the last war, and I think J.D. vance is gonna spike him like a volleyball. Spike him like a transgender volleyball player. Spikes it into a face of a real girl.

[Joe Getty]

Wow. I see what you did there.

[Jack Armstrong]

Hey, kids, it's that time again with Armstrong and Getty.

[Joe Getty]

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

[Jack Armstrong]

Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew to wrap up the show. Michelangelo is our technical director. He keeps us on the air. Michael, would you lead us off, please? Yeah, I guess the price of Apple TV is going up and so. Enough. I can't pay for all these streaming services. I'm gonna have to start doing my own entertainment.

[Katie Greener]

Whether it's shadow puppets or.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't know. I gotta come up with something. I gotta come up with knitting. Have your wife videotape your shadow puppetry. Then you can watch it back over and over again. And we gotta save money. Website.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

And we'll post it. Absolutely. For those of us still on the Internet, Katie Greener, esteemed muse woman, has a final thought.

[Joe Getty]

Katie.

[Katie Greener]

So, Joe, you're out next week because you will be in London, and then I'm out the following week. So the next time I see you, hopefully I will be pregnant.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, wow. Yeah. Wow. Good luck. We're rooting for you. Oh, I'm sorry. It's my turn. No, it's Jack's turn. Jack, final thought. I was deep in thought.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. I came across this British saying reading Ulysses and I thought maybe you could use it when over in Great Britain. Who's he when he's at home? Is the saying. I guess they say in Britain if you're saying who is that? Or who you talking about? Or I don't know who that is. Who is he when he's at home? I thought that was an interesting way of saying when he's at home. Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

That'S an interesting question.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

That reminds me of an old southern expression that I've always liked. If somebody's tired of you, get somewhere they love you at.

[Joe Getty]

That's good. Yeah, that's good.

[Jack Armstrong]

Go home.

[Joe Getty]

I hope you pick up an accent that would really add a lot to our show.

[Jack Armstrong]

I probably will. You remember when Madonna did there?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Back in the day she lived in Britain for like a week and picked up the accent.

[Joe Getty]

God. I knew a guy, I'm going to go me, I know a guy in college who went over to study in England for like a semester and he came back and he had a British accent. I'm like, no, you don't. There's no way you pick. Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.

[Jack Armstrong]

So many people saying thank you.

[Joe Getty]

See it on. See you on Monday. God bless America. Just one more.

[Jack Armstrong]

More thoughts that we'd like to share. No matter what the website says. Hey dude, you don't need shapewear. Jack and Joe are here to tell you your day will be just fine. Just download the podcast. It won't cost you a d. Armstrong and Getting on Demand. That's a podcast. Subscribe right now.

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[Christina Quinn]

If you eat too many ultra processed foods, you could be starving your gut microbes and they'll get hangry. That's one of many things I learned after working on a new audio course about the gut microbiome. You can learn how to keep your gut happy by listening to Try this from the Washington Post. I'm Christina Qu. I host Try this. Dig in with me on practical advice for life's common challenges. Follow Try this right now, wherever you're listening. Seriously, try it.

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[Jack Armstrong]

Ah, come on.

[Christina Quinn]

Why is this taking so long? This thing is ancient.

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