I'm Going With The Demons

Summary

Armstrong & Getty On Demand

Episode: "I'm Going With The Demons"
Date: February 26, 2026
Podcast by: iHeartPodcasts
Hosts: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty

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Episode Overview

This episode revolves around several hot-button political stories, with particular focus on the fallout from newly revealed Epstein files relating to major political figures (notably the Clintons and Trump), media coverage of socialism and communism, and analysis of American political theater—especially surrounding events like the State of the Union. The hosts offer pointed, satirical, and often irreverent takes on these news narratives, injecting personal anecdotes and broader cultural observations throughout.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Cuba Boat Incident: Communism & Border Irony

• [03:02–04:17] The hosts discuss recent news of armed clashes between Cuban security forces and a speedboat from Florida, suspected to be Cubans trying to rescue relatives from the island.
  • Armstrong and Getty use this incident to critique socialism, arguing that "communist countries have to have guns at the border pointing inward to keep people in."
  • Quote (Jack Armstrong, 04:17):
    "How’s that just not end the whole discussion of socialism right there? That all your socialist communist countries have to have guns at the border pointing inward to keep people in their country… Doesn't that end the discussion?"
  • They note how socialist regimes often claim their borders are heavily guarded to keep out desperate Westerners, which Joe Getty relays via a Slovakian tour guide story.
  • Quote (Joe Getty, 05:25):
    "In the communist days... they would tell everybody that the West is so poverty-stricken and violent and terrible, everybody’s desperate to get into the socialist paradise... So that’s why we have such carefully guarded borders."

2. The Epstein Files & Political Fallout

• [07:47–11:11][14:29–20:08][36:36–37:05] The biggest story of the episode is the media storm over new NPR reporting on missing documents in the Jeffrey Epstein files, especially those involving Trump and underage girls.
  • Clinton-related files are accessible, but Trump-related files are reportedly missing, raising questions of political bias and cover-up.
  • Hillary Clinton is testifying behind closed doors, a historic and politically charged event discussed at length.
  • Quote (Jack Armstrong, 07:34):
    "I do think it’s kind of an interesting angle that Hillary Clinton at, what is she, 80, still having to get involved in Bill’s philandering ways, being dragged in to talk about it, you mean? … She’s still gotta answer to various things and explain away his behavior."
  • The hosts question whether the purported privacy of a closed-door testimony actually matters if video releases are likely.
  • Notably, Hilary Clinton wanted public testimony, but the GOP preferred it closed; speculation is video will leak regardless.

3. Clinton Marriage, Power Couples, and Political Partnership

• [08:55–13:43] Armstrong and Getty dive into the Clintons’ marriage dynamic, inspired by realpolitik and mutual interest more than romance, comparing it to arranged marriages and examining how political partnerships sometimes outlast traditional relationships.
  • They reference Stephanopoulos’s memoir describing “bimbo eruptions” (Carville-coined) and how Hillary would handle them, exposing a pragmatic rather than emotional partnership.
  • Quote (Joe Getty, 09:13):
    "I hope he does. I could use the action. Anyway, where was I? Oh, the notion of these power couples, these DC super power couples that may not have exchanged so much as a peck on the cheek for a decade, but they stay together because they’re a quote-unquote power couple."

4. The Media’s Handling of the Epstein Story

• [14:04–14:52][19:31–20:08] Armstrong and Getty critique the relentless wall-to-wall mainstream media focus on the Epstein documents, highlighting incentives for both parties and questioning whether anything substantive will result from the furor.
  • Quote (Joe Getty, 14:52):
    "I haven’t paid attention. This is a pseudo-event of the sort you’re always talking about.”

5. Headlines Roundup (With Katie Green)

• [19:30–22:52] Katie Green delivers a rapid-fire news segment on the day’s headline stories:
  • DOJ review of Epstein files withheld reports (ABC)
  • Hillary Clinton’s deposition in Epstein probe (NBC)
  • Iran strikes risking U.S. weapons depletion (Politico)
  • Nvidia’s explosive profits (NYT)
  • Alleged terrorism claims from Cuba on the speedboat shooting (CBS)
  • Subpoenas related to Trump investigations (Fox News)
  • Light-hearted: Soccer player revives a seagull with CPR, butterfly caterpillars "speaking ant", and a Babylon Bee joke about Trump securing a third term by speaking for seven straight years.

6. American Political Theater: State of the Union & Pseudo-Events

• [27:04–31:25] Armstrong and Getty dissect the State of the Union, exploring the increasing performativity of these events, bipartisan bickering, and how both the event and its dissent serve political theater rather than governance.
  • Quote (Joe Getty, 27:16):
    “The fallout continues from the State of the Union address, an event that exists entirely to create fallout... It doesn’t really do anything except create fallout.”
  • Guest JD Vance, 28:47:
    "I guess maybe they were worried about being primaried by the far left fringe of their party... They lean on the person to their left and their right rather than actually have some conviction."
  • The hosts discuss the concept of "pseudo-events" (citing Jonah Goldberg), where everyone involved is incentivized to treat the event and its outrage as crucial when it often means little.

7. Marxism, Engels, and the Ironies of Socialist Founders

• [37:33–38:22] In response to the Cuba discussion, the hosts revisit the roots of Marxism, pointing out the personal irony that Engels worked while Marx lived off his friend, paralleling the system they criticized.
  • Quote (Jack Armstrong, 38:14): "It’s kind of funny, isn't it, that you have the two founding fathers of Marxism. One of them worked and the other one just lived off the other one. Which is exactly what happened."

8. Reader/Listener Mailbag: State of the Union, Demonic Ketchup

• [39:09–44:10] A classic Armstrong & Getty lighter segment featuring listener emails:
  • Dismissing the seriousness of standing/sitting during the State of the Union.
  • “Demonic possession” theory as an explanation for Jack and his brothers’ genetic reaction (heavy sweating) to ketchup.
  • Quote (Jack Armstrong, 43:31): "Well, we have some sort of genetic predisposition to sweat when we eat ketchup."
  • Quote (Joe Getty, 43:29):
    "Yeah, I’m going with the demons."

9. Mini-Stories: Political Protest Coverage & Media Bubble

• [44:57–47:09] The hosts lampoon the ‘People’s State of the Union’ protest rally, noting that journalists vastly outnumbered attendees, demonstrating media’s inflated sense of such events versus actual public interest.
  • Quote (Joe Getty, 46:05):
    "That rally got more coverage in advance of its sad, sad actual existence than like 10 years running of the March for Life in Washington, D.C.... That sad spectacle was talked up like it was the super bowl."

10. Final Teasers & Next Episode Topics

• [47:29–48:50] Coming up: California's possible release of a repeat child rapist due to new laws (emphasizing the consequences of "woke" criminal justice reform) and developing news on Iran’s military escalation.

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Memorable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

• “How’s that just not end the whole discussion of socialism right there?...”
  — Jack Armstrong, [04:17]
• “The great bargain of the philanderer and the poor wife is just: ‘Don’t embarrass me, alright?’ ... Decades, decades of nonstop humiliation.”
  — Joe Getty, [08:09]
• “I hope he does. I could use the action.”
  (In reference to Kevin Spacey grabbing him, irreverently mocking Hollywood scandals)
  — Joe Getty, [09:13]
• “I do think it’s kind of an interesting angle that Hillary Clinton at, what is she, 80, still having to get involved in Bill’s philandering ways, being dragged in to talk about it, you mean?”
  — Jack Armstrong, [07:34]
• “The fallout continues from the State of the Union address, an event that exists entirely to create fallout... It doesn’t really do anything except create fallout.”
  — Joe Getty, [27:16]
• “It's not an aerobics class. They have a constitutional obligation to sit there for the silly formality. You talk, I sit. Chop, chop, wrap it up. This could have been emailed.”
  — Listener email (read by Jack), [39:09]
• “Yeah, I’m going with the demons.”
  — Joe Getty, [43:29]
• “It’s kind of funny, isn’t it, that you have the two founding fathers of Marxism. One of them worked and the other just lived off the other one. Which is exactly what happened.”
  — Jack Armstrong, [38:14]
• “That rally got more coverage in advance of its sad, sad actual existence than like 10 years running of the March for Life in Washington, D.C.... That sad spectacle was talked up like it was the super bowl.”
  — Joe Getty, [46:05]

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Important Timestamps for Segments

• Cuba Boat Story / Socialism & Borders: 03:02–05:47
• Epstein Files Media Frenzy: 07:47–14:52, 36:36–37:05
• Clinton Marriage / Power Couples: 08:55–13:43
• Headlines with Katie Green: 19:30–22:52
• State of the Union / Political Theater: 27:04–31:25, 39:09–44:10
• Marxism, Engels, and Irony: 37:33–38:22
• Listener Mailbag (incl. ketchup/demon segment): 39:09–44:10
• Media Bubble Example, Protest Rally: 44:57–47:09
• Upcoming Topics & Final Thoughts: 47:29–48:50

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Episode Tone & Style

As always, Armstrong & Getty present their analysis with biting satire, irreverence, directness, and a conversational blend of humor and realpolitik skepticism. They regularly break the “fourth wall” to engage with listeners, lampoon both political parties, and take aim at the culture of American media and government spectacle.

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For Listeners Who Missed It

This episode offers a comprehensive and entertaining critique of today’s headlines, punctuated by memorable commentary on the nature of political power, the emptiness of media spectacle, and the bizarre absurdities of both current events and personal quirks. The dominant thread is the Epstein files and related media circus, closely followed by sharp observations on socialism, the Clinton power marriage, and the performative nature of American political rituals. If you’re looking for straight news, look elsewhere—this is Armstrong & Getty’s unfiltered, sarcastic, occasionally profound take on the week’s news.

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Live.

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Live live from studio C. Say, say, say senor.

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A dimly lit room deeper than the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty communications compound surrounded by razor wire.

[Joe Getty]

A mo.

[Jack Armstrong]

In case some Cubans try to come at us with a boat. Kinds of Doberman pinchers and security system. Anyway, today we are toiling under the title children.

[Joe Getty]

How do you spell felon Or Iran's last chance nuclear dance.

[Jack Armstrong]

Iran's last chance nuclear dance.

[Joe Getty]

That's right. It rhymes, you see.

[Jack Armstrong]

I do.

[Joe Getty]

So it's clever, it's extra powerful. Yes, the rhyming. You're making it rhyme louder than ever. What did Biden say? Something like that.

[Jack Armstrong]

So can you give me the quick rundown on this boat? I don't quite understand what happened there. The Cuba boat.

[Joe Getty]

My understanding based on the research by our crack staff is that it's likely Cubans trying to rescue relatives which they do semi frequently. They take boats from Florida and try to get their poor beleaguered, imprisoned communist oppressed loved ones out of Cuba.

[Jack Armstrong]

A boat was going from the United States to Cuba to rescue people.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

And then what?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, exactly. The Cuban security forces said no, the only way we keep anybody on the island is by imprisoning them because communism sucks so bad. So we're going to shoot at you.

[Jack Armstrong]

How's that just not end the whole discussion of socialism right there? That all your socialist communist countries have to have guns at the border pointing inward to keep people in their country and every other country like decent country people are sneaking into, you need to have. If you were going to use guns, you'd have to have them pointed outward. Isn't that the whole. Doesn't that end the discussion? It seems like it would.

[Joe Getty]

It makes me insane that it doesn't. But the all purpose, it's. It's like the. What was that? The great brand of floor mats for your truck. What's that company? Great American company. They last forever. You can't destroy them. That grade of argument is, well, they didn't do it right, but we're going to do it right.

[Jack Armstrong]

They didn't have that argument can't be destroyed.

[Joe Getty]

Apparently you can set fire to it and the next generation of morons will throw it out there.

[Katie Green]

The Weathertech argument.

[Joe Getty]

Weather attack. Exactly. It's as tough as weather tech. This segment of the show brought to you by Weathertech. They didn't Your sponsor, Weather Tech, you oughta be.

[Jack Armstrong]

They didn't need barbed wire to keep people in West Germany. That's not what was going on there.

[Joe Getty]

Right, right. And as I told you, wonderful tour guide in Slovakia told us in the communist days they would tell everybody that the west is so poverty stricken and violent and terrible, everybody's desperate to get into the socialist paradise. So that's why we have such carefully guarded borders.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, really?

[Joe Getty]

I didn't know that. Yeah, yeah. And by the way, don't try to leave or we'll shoot you in your back.

[Jack Armstrong]

So the number one story, it seems to me for mainstream media today is Epstein related.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, Lord.

[Jack Armstrong]

All based on this NPR story that came out, I think started last week and has kept going of some files that are known to be missing that are all around Trump stuff, whereas other files are not missing. There are a bunch of files related to Donald Trump and some underage girl. And of course all of this stuff is completely unsubstantiated and they were dry holes. A lot of these stories, as we've talked about a lot. And that's why nothing ever went anywhere on this stuff. But anyway, if it's true that the Trump stuff is missing from the big Epstein dump, then that's, that's a big story and it's a, it's a wall to wall coverage on MSNBC and cnn. And Hillary Clinton is testifying today under oath behind closed doors. First time ever a former president or former first lady has testified under oath over something like this. Been compelled to do it. Another norm goes down, another norm goes by the wayside. And in the last just few years. Yeah, no kidding. They wanted it public, the Clintons wanted it public, but the Republicans said no. Although it's, there's quite a bit of belief that the video of the testimony will come out. So I don't, Yes, I don't see a huge difference between public and it coming out on video later. What's the difference? News cycle, does it just impact the news cycle in a different way?

[Joe Getty]

I mean, if it's completely unedited, I don't see much difference. I don't know. That's an interesting question.

[Jack Armstrong]

I do think it's kind of an interesting angle that Hillary Clinton at, What is she, 80, still having to get involved in Bill's flandering ways, being dragged

[Joe Getty]

in to talk about it, you mean?

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, he cheated on her their whole marriage and she's still, even as an old lady. And I'm sure they have no relations amongst themselves at all. Bill And Hillary, she's still gotta answer to various things and explain away his behavior.

[Joe Getty]

Yes. Yes.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's gotta be highly annoying. Yes.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, yeah. Yes, yes, yes, it is. I'm sure it is. I mean, the great bargain of the philanderer and the. The poor wife is just. Don't embarrass me, all right? Don't make me the cheated on wife in public in a way that humiliates me. And he does it. It's like now, decades, decades of non stop humiliation. Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'm sure she just loved those pictures that came out with him sitting in the hot tub with Audis. Of course he was. She probably thought when she saw those

[Joe Getty]

pictures, you know, what would happen if. And I've been really intrigued by this notion since Judy and I watched the House of Cards a number of years ago with Kevin Spacey.

[Jack Armstrong]

Purvo. Kevin Spacey.

[Joe Getty]

Also not. He did. Wow. Wow. That was homophobic. That was ignored. The outcome of several lawsuits. That was slanderous, probably. I will testify on your behalf, Mr. Spacey. Just cover my expenses, which are considerable.

[Jack Armstrong]

He'll grab your ass.

[Joe Getty]

I hope he does. I could use the action. Anyway, where was I? Oh, the notion of these power couples, these DC super power couples that may not have exchanged so much as a peck on the cheek for a decade, but they stay together because they're a quote unquote power couple and, you know, simple Midwestern boy who's with his college sweetheart, me, is. I'm just. I'm intrigued and flabbergasted by it. Why don't they just say we're not really a conventional married couple at this point. We just were partners in essentially a political firm because that's what they are. We're friends, but we're. We're associates.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, as a guy.

[Joe Getty]

A pretense of being a married couple. Well, as a guy who's got the

[Jack Armstrong]

opposite story from you, I can tell you the legal untangling of a. Of a marriage is very, very complicated and expensive.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, yeah? Oh, yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't think they want to do that.

[Joe Getty]

Well, no, I'm not saying they should get divorced. I'm just saying they should say, no, stop talking about us being lovers. And like, we're not. We're just partners. We stayed married for financial reasons. I guess you just don't say that out loud. I guess everybody knows it.

[Jack Armstrong]

I've known people like that. Not power people, but, well, kind of. Kind of successful people that were. It just would be too complicated and ugly and not ugly in like a hateful way, just ugly in a. What a mess. Dealing with a house and who's going to live where. Connected friends and all that sort of stuff. That's.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I'm asking the opposite of that. I think they stay married, stay partners and just say we're essentially business partners at this point.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't know. With Bill and Hillary, I've always thought that maybe they just think each other. They really, really do love each other's minds when it comes to like political

[Joe Getty]

decisions and, and they've had a decades long friendship forged in fire.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Shared experience, etc. It's very powerful. When I read again, I'm just intrigued by the notion.

[Jack Armstrong]

I just a couple of years ago read George Stephanopoulos's All Too Human. So he was the campaign manager for the Clintons in 92 and then he wrote a book, I don't know, in the 90s. I didn't read it until a couple of years ago, but early on there's a chapter in there about how one, you had a bimbo eruption, which I think was a term coined by James Carville, but had a bimbo eruption where, you know, I got another chick that Bill was messing around with and it's in the news and we got to figure out how to handle this. And the biggest one, maybe it was Jennifer Flowers, I don't, I don't know which one it was but it was one of the bimbo eruptions And Bill got on the phone with Hillary and, and because Stephanopoulos not understanding a weird marriage like this was like, oh my

[Joe Getty]

God, what's gonna happen? Everything like that.

[Jack Armstrong]

Bill got on the phone with Hillary and Hillary said I'll take care of it basically. And he said okay. I'm not exactly sure what that means,

[Joe Getty]

but I'm making my wow, what face. Yeah. How interesting.

[Jack Armstrong]

Like she was perfectly aware and probably not okay with, but realized is part of the deal and I'll handle it. And probably handled it in the way that handled. Got handled with a lot of those women where they would absolutely destroy their person, their, their reputations in the media to discredit them. Hillary is probably behind all of that.

[Joe Getty]

Judy and I had some friends a while back, lost touch with them, but they're immigrants from India, both quite well educated, hardwork, et cetera, et cetera. But they were an arranged marriage back in the old country and they gave us a bit of a description of what it's like and they said, yeah, you, you grow to love the person you're with and, and they seem quite happy. I haven't talked to them in quite a while. But so like, like that sort of marriage. I rub my chin. I think, wow, that's interesting. Just like a super power couple marriage. How's that work? What do you do? What do you tell people?

[Jack Armstrong]

I think they also have always man, we're talking about the Clintons like it's the 90s, but I think they've always been able to circle the wagons and we're being attacked by those evil Republicans and just make it that the Republicans are evil and you and I need to fight them for all that is good in the universe and, and that they can. If you focus on that. Watch. I'm sure she's going to today in her mind, it's the evil Republicans once again trying to do something that she doesn't have to think about. The weird he cheated on me and embarrassed me and all that sort of stuff.

[Joe Getty]

Or it's just such old hat.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

She doesn't care.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't know if anything's going to come out of that. The Hillary testimony.

[Joe Getty]

No.

[Jack Armstrong]

Then when does Bill testify?

[Joe Getty]

I don't know. Nothing's going to come of it. So I haven't paid attention. This is a pseudo event of the sort you're always talking about.

[Jack Armstrong]

We will have to. Yeah, it probably is. We will have to get to the the main story of the day though for the mainstream media of the missing documents because if that's true, that's gonna it looks weird if nothing else. Let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this. It is Thursday, February 26th, the year 2026. We are Armstrong and getting we approve of this program.

[Joe Getty]

Here we go. Officially. Now, according to FCC rules and regulations, the show starts at Mark.

[Jack Armstrong]

Former President Clinton is in the Epstein files. Spokesperson for the Clintons, former President Bill Clinton.

[Joe Getty]

And as for the former secretary Hillary

[Jack Armstrong]

Clinton, she says the Clintons the Clinton's

[Joe Getty]

so Hanson, so grading.

[Jack Armstrong]

Hanson and I both watched the early episode of News Nation and noticed the reporters, one of those young people that doesn't say tease Clinton, talking about Hillary Clinton, Clinton and Clinton and how she's testifying behind closed doors. Hilly Clinton's Clinton. My son does that too. It's just, it's a cultural thing that just I don't know. I don't know where it came from, but it's a thing.

[Joe Getty]

Where is it going to go and how quickly? That's what I want to know.

[Jack Armstrong]

We've got Katie's headlines on the way. Stay here. Clinton.

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[Jack Armstrong]

So Bill Clinton testifies tomorrow. So it's Hillary today. Bill is tomorrow. Halperin's reporting is that Hillary still has her fastball. Bill's friends are not so sure about him and his ability to handle complicated issues at this point.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, he has the pump head. Remember with the open heart surgery when they shut you down and frees you up and sometimes it affects your your brain pain.

[Jack Armstrong]

He's also old as AF, you know.

[Joe Getty]

That's true. Dr. Jack. It's a good point, sir. Thank you for consulting on this case. So more on that to come. But first let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead story with Katie Green.

[Jack Armstrong]

Kat.

[Katie Green]

Well, that is the lead Epstein, Epstein, Epstein. ABC DOJ is reviewing whether the Epstein reports were improperly withheld. NBC Hillary Clinton set for deposition with the House oversight community in Jeffrey Epstein probe and oh no, she didn't. And nude photos and passports. The Justice Department posted dozens of problematic images to Epstein files website CNN analysis.

[Joe Getty]

Fine.

[Jack Armstrong]

So this is a real story. I mean it sure looks like it's a real story. This Epstein thing that NPR dug, that is now a scandal. But we'll talk explain that more later.

[Katie Green]

Politico. Iran strikes threatened to deplete US Weapons supplies and put American troops at risk.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, true.

[Katie Green]

The New York Times Nvidia reported a profit of $120 billion over the last year as the chip giant continued to grow at an astonishing rate.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, Wall Street Journal, big on the house. What bubble was there? Basically their headline I don't know what this means and why didn't I once again get invested in Nvidia?

[Joe Getty]

How long am I going to continue

[Jack Armstrong]

to say should have got, should have got in two years ago should have

[Joe Getty]

gotten a Year ago.

[Jack Armstrong]

Should have got in three months ago.

[Joe Getty]

It's too late now, certainly. Yeah.

[Katie Green]

A little different angle to the Cuba story. CBS Cuba says it killed four people on a speedboat from Florida. Alleges they were trying to carry out terrorism on Cuba.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, sure. You're a bunch of commies. You're starving your people, your corrupt, kleptomaniac scumbags. Die, die, commies.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, the interesting part of it, of course, is our Secretary of State's family fled Cuba and is pretty interested. Has a lot of self interest in figuring this out.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, he takes it personally. Yeah.

[Katie Green]

From Fox News, Biden's FBI subpoenaed Cash Patel's and Susie Wiles phone record during federal Trump investigation.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. When was the last time you felt like the Justice Department really was sober, serious, you know, not completely controlled by the potus? It's been a long time. Because Biden's guys were. I mean, I don't have a lot of faith in Trump's guys not being political tools. I had no faith in Biden's guys not being political tools. They clearly were. This is not good.

[Katie Green]

Have we learned nothing from the New York Post? Soccer player uses CPR to revive a seagull that was struck by a ball during a playoff match in Turkey.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, I read this. The seagull gets hit by a ball, seagull falls to the ground, and player runs over and does mouth the beak on the seagull. No, we learned nothing.

[Katie Green]

This is how pandemics start.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, my God, you're so right, Jenny. And then a pangolin made love to a bat.

[Jack Armstrong]

Exactly.

[Katie Green]

I don't even know what this next one means, but it amused me. Study finds butterfly caterpillars have learned to speak ant.

[Announcer]

And.

[Katie Green]

And scientists can hear it.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't know what a butterfly caterpillar is, but speak ant. Okay, that's.

[Joe Getty]

The animals are banding together at the same time. The pandemic's begun in Turkey.

[Announcer]

Yes.

[Joe Getty]

Okay. All right.

[Katie Green]

And finally, from the Babylon Bee, Trump reveals plan to secure third term by speaking for seven straight years.

[Jack Armstrong]

So we got some big news stories to bring you up to speed on. I hope you can stick around. If you missed a segment, get our

[Joe Getty]

podcast, Armstrong and Getty.

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[Jack Armstrong]

congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar also broke decorum yelling at President Trump during his speech. My first thought was who do they

[Joe Getty]

hate more, our country or Donald Trump? And the criticism was bipartisan.

[Jack Armstrong]

It was really shameful, a bad look for Democrats. It's like now when half the people in my party haven't showed up and then some of them have chosen to just yell and say and scream during all of it.

[Joe Getty]

The fallout continues from the State of the Union address, an event that exists entirely to create fallout, it occurred to me, both positive and negative, it doesn't really do anything except create fallout.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's interesting, I was reading Jonah Goldberg had a good piece yesterday of the Dispatch about these pseudo events and how they're so such symbiotic things for so many people and like conventions are that there's a bunch of stuff he was talking about that big the trade thing they have in Europe that everybody goes to like nothing actually comes out of these events but the important people speaking at them, it kind of raises their importance level. And then the media people who are tied in and are close to them, it raises there so it makes them more important by reporting on the importance of the event that has no actual

[Joe Getty]

meaning and they're all people decrying it, get their street cred established as somebody who's against it. And the so too is exactly like that. I mean I understand there's the constitutional requirement, although as we've discussed many times you could just, you know, type up a three page report. But if the way you tell a pseudo events a pseudo event, what if it didn't happen?

[Jack Armstrong]

Nothing?

[Joe Getty]

What effects would that have? Zero. Yeah, I know, I know. Then you have why don't we go ahead and play 41 JD Vance and then we'll get into some pretty funny

[Guest Commentator]

analysis I saw that probably most TV viewers didn't see was really the cowardice because there were a few Democrats who sort of politely clapped. They didn't want to stand up. I guess maybe they were worried about being primaried by the far left fringe of their party. But they were all looking around, they weren't actually saying, you know what, I'm going to stand and support this because this is a common sense obvious statement. They were all looking around for cues from their colleagues because they didn't have the courage to stand on their own. And that more than anything, Bill is the saddest commentary on the Democratic Party that not only will he not stand for the idea that Americans should come first, they won't even have the courage of their convictions. They lean on the person to their left and their right rather than actually have some conviction. That is unfortunately what's true about Democrats in Washington today.

[Joe Getty]

I read some analysis editorial aborted the Journal, I think about some of the legislative things Trump proposed and how none of them is going to happen because even on some issues where he is like completely crossed the aisle and now is touting Democrat sponsored ideas, they won't vote for it and quote, unquote, give him a win.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, well that's the State of the Union address though, has been that for so long where you get up there and you talk about various proposals that you've got and then some of them I don't think are ever even mentioned again, ever, ever, ever. I'm not sure anybody even brings them up again. It's kind of funny.

[Joe Getty]

Okay, so anyway, back to the, the analysis. So that's a complete dysfunction, obviously, if they won't even pass stuff that they've agreed with for 50 years. I mean, it's idiotic. Andrew Stiles in the Free Beacon. Absolutely hilarious. Pride and petulance. Trump touts American triumph as Democrats seethe. And then he mentions the positive stuff, the introduction of the US Hockey team, which accomplished a miracle. It got the Democrats to stand up and cheer for anything. It's the only thing they agreed on. The rest of the speech went more or less as expected. Liberals denounced the grotesque spectacle and compared it to a Klan rally. New York Times published a preemptive fact check. Democrats pouted and jeered when Trump described his administration's efforts to crack down on their priorities. Illegal immigration, crime, DEI programs and Palestinian terrorism, among others. Representative Al Green, the elderly crank thrown out of last year's address for shouting and waving his cane, was ejected within minutes for holding up a sign that read black people aren't apes. But the way he was holding it at Times with his hand covering the a it read black people rent apes. Which is actually a good financial move.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, exactly. It's one of the few times where renting is a better idea than purchasing for all you know for in terms of your value and don't buy the insurance. The apes rarely break down or go bad and if they do the repair cost is not that high. So that'd be my suggestion. We're watching the soon to be testimony of Hillary Clinton behind closed doors. It's they're going to make a big spectacle out of when she shows up in the motorcade and all that sort of stuff. And I don't know if things will leak out throughout the morning or day as she testifies to questions and answers and all that sort of stuff. I have no idea. I would assume that that's going to be a case but that'll be very, very exciting. There are a couple reports out about Russia from from big NATO meeting that they had yesterday. You know they got the peace negotiations going on between. I don't know who the parties are but NATO made a strong statement about Russia's ability to rearm very, very quickly. That I thought was interesting. I want to get to a little bit later. First I want to tell you about Rough Greens. It's something you add to your dog's food. It's not a replacement of your dog's food. Important to note because I know changing dog food is not a minor deal cause makes them poop weird for a long time. So you can keep using the same dog food you got. But Rough Greens is a live nutritional supplement you add to your dog's food that is going to be all kinds of cool stuff. Nutrition packed with live vitamins, minerals, probiotics, digestive enzymes and omega oils. You should try it out because they ain't going to cost you nothing but the shipping. Just add Rough Greens. Rough Greens is offering a free Jumpstart trial bag. Use the discount code Armstrong to claim your free Jumpstart trial [e-mail] all you do is cover the shipping. That's R U f f greens.com promo code ARMSTRONG. So don't change your dog foods, just add rough Greens and watch the health benefits come alive. I think you'll enjoy that. We've got Mailbag on the way. In a little bit we'll bring you up to speed on what is the Epstein scandal of the day. And I think this one is gonna have legs actually. So stick around.

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[Jack Armstrong]

Oh my God. I I gotta believe they withheld these documents from the Epstein files about Trump on purpose. It's going to end up backfiring. I still don't think he's guilty of anything, but it's going to end up backfiring at least as a news story for quite a number of cycles. So we'll get into that in hour two if you don't know what we're talking about.

[Joe Getty]

Oh brother. I have prayed long on my knees at night, morning, noon to end the Epstein torture and it just doesn't happen.

[Jack Armstrong]

Definitely not going to be over for at least 3, 3 days at the bare minimum.

[Joe Getty]

Sounds like it has some heat. Now here's your freedom loving quote of the day. Freedom hating quote of the day from Communists. This fascinates me. Friedrich Engels Darwin did not know what a bitter satire he wrote on mankind when he showed that free competition, the struggle for existence, which the economists celebrate as the highest historical achievement, is the normal state of the animal kingdom. Only conscious organization of social production, in which production, distribution are carried out in a planned way, can live lift mankind above the rest of the animals.

[Jack Armstrong]

Marx get out gets all the credit. But the big works were written by Marx and Engels and as we talked about in a podcast many years ago based on a book about Karl Marx, he lived off of angles. Yeah, yeah, angles worked and Mark just laid around, which is kind of funny.

[Joe Getty]

Angles might be one of the greatest examples ever of a brilliant mind, or at least an extremely intelligent mind that was utterly lacking in wisdom.

[Jack Armstrong]

But it's kind of funny, isn't it, that you have the two founding fathers of Marxism. One of them worked and the other one just lived off the other one. Which is exactly what happened.

[Joe Getty]

And nobody said, hey, wait a minute. Yeah, but central planning is as disastrous as like bleeding the feet was to medicine. I mean, it's a miserable failure, but they keep trying it. Good Lord. Mailbag, Drop us a note mailbagarmstrongetty.com here's your meme of the day. It's a T shirt. Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Deport a man and you'll never have to feed him again. Moving along to the correspondence proper Rich wants to know, Jack, hey, just curious, is that really cool car still parked around the radio ranch?

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Any plans on getting a car dolly and getting that out of there? Jack?

[Jack Armstrong]

Still over there. It's still over there.

[Joe Getty]

Okay.

[Jack Armstrong]

It was only like, I don't know, 200ft from the old man in the wheelchair when I had to call 911. If you heard that story yesterday.

[Joe Getty]

Right? Yeah. The always provocative Drew the Millennial about the topic of who stands, who doesn't at this state of the Union. Jack was right. Today all the importance of the so too is stove piped. And all of the resulting controversy is pointless and stupid. I don't care who stood up for what. It's a stupid game we play for cable news. And I don't care how much I agree with something. You're not going to dupe me into genuflecting to you in order to prove that I agree. What's next? Where's the line? How about do the hokey pokey or you're a communist? How about you go to hell? It's not an aerobics class. They have a constitutional obligation to sit there for the silly formality. You talk, I sit. Chop chop, wrap it up. This could have been emailed anyway. Two hours of pausing every eight seconds because no one wants to be seen to be the person standing. It's idiotic. It's Soviet. Enough with the theatrical. But people always respond with something like so you wouldn't stand and applaud for 106 year old World War II veteran. Okay, so next time Gavin has some stupid climate summit and wheedles out a terminal child, we all have to stand and clap for that too. Maybe everyone should just mind their own business. Kptm, keep punching that monkey.

[Guest Commentator]

Love the show.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, see, you know, I heard Chuck

[Jack Armstrong]

Schumer say yesterday, he said we're not gonna stand because he told us to stand as a stunt. And I thought, you know, well, I can see that. Yeah, well.

[Joe Getty]

And I suited Trump. I saluted Trump rather for political theater that he phrased it just acceptably enough that it made the Democrats look bad not standing. If he'd been at all, even a slight bit more like quote unquote anti immigrant, right then they would have had an excuse. So it was good. But it's unquestionably political theater and I appreciate the use of the term stovepiped. Dr. Brian writes. Good morning guys. Wanted to ask a question regarding going to war with Iran. People always bring up the uncertainty of unleashing the dogs of war. The question I fall back always to is this. How many people are going to die if we do not strike Iran? What is the cost of inaction? It's interesting that governments and politicians and humans regularly risk 10 lives through inaction much, much more readily than they do 10 lives through action. Because we see inaction is not a sin in the same way. Some of the action, or an unfortunate

[Jack Armstrong]

action, some of it is that some of it is just out and out cowardice because you can't get blamed for the. The other ones.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, yeah. A couple more quick notes. Alien Anonymous bought an extremely expensive bed. Jack may have discussed at points, including during the Armstrong and get. I wasn't gonna name it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay,

[Joe Getty]

come back to that later.

[Jack Armstrong]

I wanna. Okay, now I'm really, really interested in that.

[Joe Getty]

This from Eric in beautiful Astoria. Eric, Oregon. Eric, another great correspondent. I was interested to learn of Jack's unusual reaction to ketchup in that upon tasting. Tasting the savory condiment, he proceeds to sweat profusely.

[Jack Armstrong]

Me and my brothers both. The sweat, I mean, it like, like just bubbles up out of our heads and runs down our faces. I mean, like I gotta take napkins and wipe off my head.

[Joe Getty]

That's amazing.

[Jack Armstrong]

More than if I'm working out at the gym whenever I eat ketchup.

[Joe Getty]

We received one email from somebody who said, oh my God, me too. Jack's the only other person I've ever heard of who does that. I misplaced it somewhere, but I'll try to find it. But Eric goes on.

[Jack Armstrong]

Pretty gross.

[Joe Getty]

I'm neither qualified to diagnose nor treat any disease, but it might be worthwhile to rule out Fry's syndrome, AKA Bailarger syndrome, AKA oriculture Auriculotemporal syndrome. Usually it's due to an injury, usually from surgery or birthing forceps to the parotid gland that through a convoluted process leads to hyperhidrosis. I know. Obviously it's unusual though, that both he and his brothers experience the same phenomenon, which obviously suggest a hereditary disorder or perhaps a forceps. Happy family doctor in their history. Or demonic possession.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, we're all three born in different towns, so it wasn't that.

[Joe Getty]

So probably demonic possession.

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[Jack Armstrong]

Well, we have some sort of genetic predisposition to sweat when we eat ketchup.

[Joe Getty]

Weird how interesting that is. Yeah, just crazy. Drop us a note sometime. Mailbagarmstrongandgetti.com and I don't mean a little bit. Yeah, that's extraordinary.

[Jack Armstrong]

I've never heard of that. And gross.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, happened last night.

[Jack Armstrong]

Went to a barbecue joint, really good barbecue joint. Put a little ketchup on the fries. Sweat just pouring off me.

[Joe Getty]

So the, the final note I would like to throw in when we were discussing the State of the Union and the, the protests and the swearing and the signs that said black people rent apes, which is a stereotype and a not true.

[Jack Armstrong]

What?

[Joe Getty]

But. Michael, get me quick. I forgot the number of the. The clip. Now I'm falling apart. 42. Here it is. So Andrew Stiles writes in the Free Beacon. Representative Ilhan Omar looked as though she was about to burst into tears or commit a violent crime. She shrieked intermittently, along with mate Rashida Talib, who sported an f ice pin, but it spelled it out. They weren't the only ones who ignored the advice of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who had urged Democrats to sit in silent defiance. To his credit, some opted to skip the speech and attend a sad alternative rally outside in the cold, which got

[Jack Armstrong]

no attention, as far as I can tell.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I can tell you why it got no attention. And this is one of the main reasons I wanted to bring this to you, because everybody kind of said, what rally? I reported on there being a rally.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't remember the.

[Joe Getty]

That according to the Daily Wire, there are probably, quote, There are probably 75 people in this crowd and I would say 35 of them are reporters. They reported.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow.

[Joe Getty]

Former MSNBC anchor Joy Reid, who was one of the featured thinkers and speakers at the rally, attempted with a play on crazy old coot Al Greens name to get everyone to sing along with the other Al Greens smash hit single Al Green. If you can hear me, I. So when. Come on here it. Keep it going. Whatever you who, it's all right. That rally got more coverage in advance of its sad, sad actual existence than like 10 years running of the March for Life in Washington, D.C. no kidding. That sad spectacle was talked up like

[Jack Armstrong]

it was the super bowl or Tea Party rallies where many, many thousands of people showed up.

[Joe Getty]

Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

So there's two things going on there. Her overinflated self worth, apparently. And she can sing a little bit. And she came up with a way to get to do it. That's what that was.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, that was just, wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

We've done events where nobody shows up. I know what that feels like. I've done that a number of times in my career.

[Joe Getty]

It's a bad listening. Nobody cares.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's a bad feeling. And so they had to be all gathered there, especially with all the media around.

[Joe Getty]

Oh wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

I can't imagine what that felt like.

[Joe Getty]

75 people, half of a media for the People's State of the Union, which was again touted like it was the Super Bowl. Holy crap. You know, this may be the greatest ever, pure, twice distilled example of the media's lens on America versus reality.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, no kidding. Wow. A number of people have pointed out, because you brought it up, why Bill and Hillary do the pretend marriage thing. They can't testify against each other and it might go way, way, way back on things that they don't want to testify against each other on. That could be. I could actually be it.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, that's actually a really good point. That's again missing what my question is. But I mean, because if, even if you say we're not really, I mean we're not a married. We're married legally but we, we haven't slept together in 37 years. We're business partners. I still don't think you can be compelled to testify except in very rare cases that my law school daughter was telling me about. And anyway, that is a good point.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, Hillary is testifying behind closed doors today, but that's not the big Epstein story of the day and it's going to have legs for a little while and will be completely misconstrued by most people or they're leaving out something on purpose. So we can get to that. Coming up. I do want to talk about the situation in Iran. We've got like the best fighter planes on that exist on earth that have ever been invented by man that are now there in the area and that probably means things are about to get serious.

[Joe Getty]

Plus the state of Cal Unicornia about to turn loose a multiple time child rapist. Oh because of a bizarre woke DEI style empty the prisons law. It's getting coverage nationwide and it should,

[Jack Armstrong]

it's outrageous and it should be hung around. Gavin Newsom so that story makes me so dang angry. Lot on the way. If you missed a segment, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on Demand Subscribe Pride

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