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strong and ready. From Studio C. Senor, welcome to a brand new week. Oh my God. What's gonna happen this week in your life and the ups and downs of your three score and ten that God gives you. What is going to happen this week? Good stuff, bad stuff, worst stuff, best stuff.
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Just another sticking weak answer to the
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man that is an option. A week. Much like every other week you've ever lived. Same job, same same spouse, same kids, same route to work. Same sore feet. Maybe that's.
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This is not encouraging.
Jack Armstrong
Anyway, we're deep within the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound and today we are toiling under the title of the show.
Joe Getty
You know, the first one's just an expression of my mood. Anybody got any good news? Just so going through the damn headlines. But I like this one even better. Iran out of interest, what is going on with Trump in Iran that he just. This is boring. Moving on.
Jack Armstrong
But we need progress.
Joe Getty
They're moving or get off the pot.
Jack Armstrong
They're all meeting tomorrow. The big. Everybody's getting together tomorrow for a big meeting and reporting. I was just watching tree angst on Fox. Apparently among the plans being put on his desk or they'll be discussing tomorrow is taking out the IRGC leadership. So if I were those guys running the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, I would update my beneficiaries and my life insurance plans and, and look for. Look, look in the sky. Listen, hey, Muhammad, you can get up
Joe Getty
to $2 million in coverage without a medical exam. Yeah, he's got to call that 1, 800 number.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, like come on, like so.
Joe Getty
Yeah, by noon.
Jack Armstrong
So, yeah. Well, that's funny how that whole thing got put on the back burner during the trip to Iran. A you wouldn't think a war could get bumped off the front page by anything. But it got. It got bumped off the front page by a lot. By a freaking hantavirus. So yeah, speaking of which, speaking of viruses, you've been following the Ebola Virus. They're in the.
Joe Getty
Just a little bit.
Jack Armstrong
I'm really into the Ebola virus.
Joe Getty
What's old is new.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I got, I got a full team coverage on the Ebola virus a little bit later. There's been an outbreak and people dying and what it is and what it isn't. But man, that's a. Now that's a disease you don't want.
Joe Getty
Boy, if somebody offers you the Hanta or the Ebola, man, that's a coin.
Jack Armstrong
Or Covid or.
Joe Getty
Well, pretty much it's almost the opposite
Jack Armstrong
of COVID The Ebola virus is the way some people treated Covid. Yes. Which was very inaccurate. Speaking of war with Iran, so the New York Times is out with their New York Times Sienna poll, which I know if you're just a regular run in the middle person and you hear there's, there's a gazillion polls that come out all the time and another poll, this and that, whatever, you ignore them. But the New York Times Sienna poll, they only do it, I think four times a year or something like that. They spend a ton of money. It's more research deeper than like your average poll that gets quickie poll that gets thrown out by CNN or whoever. It doesn't mean they, you need to agree with it. But anywho, they're, they're one of theirs. Just came out this morning and right decision or wrong decision on Iran is at 30%. 30% and what?
Joe Getty
Right decision?
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, yeah, yeah, good guess. Yeah. It wasn't popular at the beginning and it has gotten less popular. 30% of people think that was the right decision to go, to go into Iran. So of course the president made no effort to sell that at all. Like zero effort.
Joe Getty
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
If you'll remember correctly, the State of the Union address was four days before the war started. Never mentioned it. So, I mean, there was no attempt to sell this thing to people. And then the price of gas goes up and you got the compliant media acting like that's the only gauge of whether a war is worth it or not is the price of gas.
Joe Getty
Right. But given the fact that what's the failure is an orphan and success has a thousand fathers, the aimless strategy in my opinion has not helped a bit. The stalemate, or so it would seem. The lack of good messaging, you know, you could change those poll results with a good decisive victory, you know, settling in some of these problems and, or just great messaging and it hasn't been there.
Jack Armstrong
You know, one of the worst things or best things, depending on how you look at it that ever happened to polling is when they started it breaking down by party. They didn't do that until fairly recently last I don't know how many years. But I think, I think you had to start doing that because we're so polarized, right? So back in the day you could look at the overall number and get a find it kind of a feel where like the bulk of people were. Then we got so polarized that if you see a 50% poll number, you realize 100% of Republicans say yes and 0% of Democrats say no. And that's how you get to 50%. And then what does that tell you? Does that even tell you anything really?
Joe Getty
So just as if it's two separate internal polls of each party.
Jack Armstrong
Answer my own question. I'm not sure it tells you anything. If you have a 50% approval of something that's 100%, one for one point, zero for another. It's never that drastic, but it's close. For instance, on this Iran number with 30% approval, 5% of Democrats, 70% of Republicans. So what does that tell you about anything really? I'm not sure.
Joe Getty
The only thing I look at with any great interest is the Republican number. The fact that it's 70 is strong but not overwhelming, I'd say behind the President. That's interesting. The fact that 90, whatever percent of Democrats hate it, that's at least not the least bit surprising. Of course they do.
Jack Armstrong
I'm not sure you learn anything from those numbers when you break them down by party. So I'd like to talk to a smart person about that on polling. Speaking of which, polarization and where we were. Now we got to jam an ad in here at some point, right?
Joe Getty
This is insane.
Jack Armstrong
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Joe Getty
But everybody knows that. I mean, it's, it's outrageous. Depending on where you pretty much all
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insurance is your medical, your, your home and your car. Pretty much all of it. When you go to use it, you're like, why do I pay for this every month? If what.
Joe Getty
And if I do use it, are they just going to throw me out on my ear or just jack it up?
Jack Armstrong
In the case of cars, jack it up to cover whatever they paid.
Joe Getty
Mm. Yeah, yeah. I was gonna say, you know, it really depends on where you live.
Jack Armstrong
Of course.
Joe Getty
Coastal, listen, blah, blah, blah. But then I remember I was reading in the Wall Street Journal where the middle part of the country, because of what seems to be increased hail.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, my God.
Joe Getty
Among other things, my parents had quite
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Joe Getty
So everybody's homeowners insurance rates are outrageous.
Jack Armstrong
Now here's my brief story because then we got to start the show officially. I'm picking up my son downtown. Yesterday he helped at a Rotary Club barbecue because that's something he did with the scouts. It's just one of the many great things I love about scouts. So there he was, involved in the community and helping this and that and sort of stuff. Pick up my son in the scout uniform. And we're driving home and some little blonde chick college girl in a really cool little sports car, convertible. So she's going to a really expensive college driving a nicer car than I had until I was in my mid-50s. She is by definition among the elite of the world. And she, she drives up next to me, flips me off and yelling. I couldn't hear because my windows are up. And flips me off and runs in front of me and flips me up over her shoulder with her ponytail waving in the breeze in her little convertible. So angry because I'm driving a Tesla Cybertruck, I guess. What the hell is that? That sort of thing did not happen not that many years ago.
Joe Getty
Upper class twits selling revolution. She thinks she's a brave crusader of some sort. It's a conceit. It's entirely a conceit.
Jack Armstrong
You have, by any definition in world history, one of the greatest lives you could have. You're an attractive young blonde at a nice college, driving a really cool car your parents almost certainly bought you.
Joe Getty
Which is precisely why she felt socialist nonsense.
Jack Armstrong
And you're so angry right now on a beautiful Sunday afternoon.
Joe Getty
That's how she soothes her own ego. Look at me. I'm not part of the bad people. I'm sorry I'm white. I really, really am. And I'm sorry I'm not poor. But let me scream at a sinner, then. Then you'll like me, right? You'll accept me as a fellow crusader. Oh, it's so pathetic.
Jack Armstrong
Makes you feel like you're doing something in your life, I guess. I don't know. It's like, how are you so angry about what I'm driving right now? This is crazy.
Joe Getty
I was just contemplating. We need a new ANG T shirt. I will support it proudly, but I can't decide should I say socialism sucks or socialism never works.
Jack Armstrong
Well, I'd wear a socialism sucks T shirt all day, every day and be my only shirt. I get like five different colors making my. My uniform.
Joe Getty
Right, right. Wash around the weekend. Oh, like wash them and paint it on your chest for those to go shirtless on the weekend.
Jack Armstrong
Let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this. It is Monday, May 18, year 2026, where Armstrong and getting. We approve of this program.
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Okay, let's begin then. Officially, according to FCC rules regs. Here we go at mark.
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President Trump was greeted at the Great hall of the People by school children jumping up and down in excitement, shouting, it's the man from the hats we make.
Joe Getty
That's a good punchline.
Jack Armstrong
Which also fits in with the Trump phones. Have you ever followed the Trump phone story?
Joe Getty
They were supposed to headline that troubled me.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, my God. That's. That's an. That's a rough story. Anyway, we've got a lot of headlines around, real important things coming up. I hope you can stay here,
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Jack Armstrong
How about this headline? It looks like Pamela Anderson and Tom Cruise are a couple. Pam Anderson.
Joe Getty
You gotta give me a minute.
Jack Armstrong
I know you're talking about two. Two sex symbols. Still attractive. But you know, Both are about 60. Heyday was 80s.
Joe Getty
Really say the 80s calls and wants their gossip back.
Jack Armstrong
Really there. Well, they're still both big deals.
Joe Getty
They're both.
Jack Armstrong
We're both, you know, Tom Cruise is still big deal. So she. She's got a new show out that's supposed to be really good a series anyway. Tom Cruise and Pamela Anderson. It's just weird, the idea that. Imagine how many times their paths have crossed. As crossed as giant stars for 45 years or something like that. And now at this point in their lives, they come together here in the
Joe Getty
autumn of their lives.
Jack Armstrong
Exactly.
Joe Getty
The autumn they finally open their eyes.
Jack Armstrong
Are we in the autumn of our lives? I feel like I'm in a dead. Dead of winter.
Joe Getty
I definitely. Shorts are put away and the heavy coats are out. Yeah, I feel like it's trees with
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no leaves on them.
Joe Getty
Yeah, yeah. So a couple of headlines. The who. It's the World Health Organization that guided us so valiantly and apolitically through Covid. Mother Black cursor. Oh, boy. Declared a global health emergency following an outbreak of the rare. A rare variant of Ebola in Congo and Uganda. Because regular old Ebola isn't scary enough. This one's an extra nasty one.
Jack Armstrong
I've got details on that coming up that are really interesting.
Joe Getty
How about Ukraine going nuts. Hammering Russia with one of the largest attacks on Moscow since the invasion back in 2022. Over a thousand drones.
Jack Armstrong
I don't get why they don't do this on a regular basis. If they have the capacity. This was a reaction to Moscow hitting Kiev and killing two dozen people.
Joe Getty
Right.
Jack Armstrong
Just blast an apartment complex and then Kiev shot back at Moscow with the biggest attack since the war happened, as you said. I don't understand why if they have the capacity, they don't do it all the time. I don't feel like they need to just justify it with getting attacked first.
Joe Getty
Yeah, I've been puzzling through that very question myself. Are they hoping for some sort of settlement soon and didn't want to?
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Or they think. Do they think the world? Or maybe more importantly. JD Vance And Trump will turn on them if they. If they are on the offense.
Joe Getty
Gotta be something like that, right?
Jack Armstrong
Almost has to be.
Joe Getty
Otherwise punish the crap out of.
Jack Armstrong
Right.
Joe Getty
I don't know. This is such a weird conflict. Is there a tendency of. For Putin to go after more civil if, if Ukraine's more aggressive attacking in Russia and they don't want to court that sort of trouble? I don't know.
Jack Armstrong
Speaking of wars and potential wars, we need to play this. Trump did an interview on Fox News Friday afternoon. This is after his trip to China in which he made a lot of news. In fact, I think it was the biggest thing that happened the entire week in his statement about Taiwan being a very good negotiating chip. That whole conversation is definitely worth listening to. And we'll get to that later on the Armstrong and Getty show. Sure sounds like he put letting Taiwan go on the table as a. As a trade for something else.
Joe Getty
Oh, boy, oh, boy. Speaking of our commie enemies, Cuba had been discussing plans to use drones to attack the US Naval base at Guantanamo Bay and maybe even the Florida Keys, killing many of our drunk gay Americans would not be appreciated at all.
Jack Armstrong
What?
Joe Getty
According Key west, well known hangout for our LGB friends.
Jack Armstrong
I was there last summer for vacation with the kids. It's. There's plenty of straight people in Key West.
Joe Getty
Well, I'm having. I stand up for our minority communities. Jack.
Jack Armstrong
You know what you do.
Joe Getty
You all right.
Jack Armstrong
Although we did walk by a bar that had a number of appeared to be gentlemen.
Joe Getty
Yes.
Jack Armstrong
Dressed.
Joe Getty
A gentleman's club.
Jack Armstrong
You say? Dressed as women. Well, outside of this bar. And very, very high heels and lots of makeup and everything like that. We walked by them and Hen term to me. I wish I could say the words on the air, but.
Joe Getty
Oh boy.
Jack Armstrong
He said. I got three questions. Dad, what the f. Oh, that was funny.
Joe Getty
Those fellas are confused, Henry. We hope they'll figure themselves out eventually. Also worth noting, the. The giant prayer gathering on the National Mall in D.C. yesterday was promoted as a rededication of our country as one nation under God, which of course the New York Times appraised very, very crit. Reestablish the incorrect narrative that the US Was established as a Christian nation when indeed the separation of church and state. Blah, blah, blah. Okay.
Jack Armstrong
All right.
Joe Getty
When was the time. When was the last time you went after a big gathering of Muslims. New York Times. And reviewed how a fundamentalist Islam in any form squares with modernity? I missed that article. Send it to me.
Jack Armstrong
I'll read it. That's a very good point also on that begathering them all. The only reason I knew it happened was Fox News Sunday. Shannon Bream broadcast from the mall talking to Mike Johnson about the gathering. I had no idea it was even happening because I watched all the other news shows and there was no mention of it whatsoever.
Joe Getty
I appreciated Mike Johnson. This could even be our freedom loving quote of the day saying our rights do not derive from the government. They come from you, our Creator and Heavenly Father. Whether you consider them God given or quote unquote natural rights, he's absolutely right. The government exists to protect your rights, not give them to you.
Jack Armstrong
We talked about that a little bit with Tim while you were gone in his book Proclaiming Liberty.
Joe Getty
Oh so good.
Jack Armstrong
Here's another headline from the Not Serious file and I'd be fine with as much Not Serious as we can get to today is the secret to men's longevity. A great but new studies coming out showing that if you have a really great butt, particularly as a man, it is a sign that you are going to live a long, healthy life.
Joe Getty
Yes. Yeah, you could put a couple of beer cans on mine and rest them there. I got very muscular. Very muscular.
Jack Armstrong
It's got a shelf that you could put beer cans on.
Joe Getty
I'm not muscular.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, it's an interesting look. You might have to post pictures.
Joe Getty
Sure. Nobody wants that.
Jack Armstrong
Trouble figuring the angle on that. All right, a lot more on the way. If you missed a segment of the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand Armstrong
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Joe Getty
Should the people of Taiwan feel more or less secure after your meetings with President Xi Neutral?
Jack Armstrong
That's just a little bit of the interview that Trump did with Brett Baer on Friday at the end of the week and his big meeting in China and everything like that. And it it got a Lot of attention. And it should, I mean, it really sounded like he put Taiwan on the table as a bargaining chip. It sounded like he's going to treat Taiwan the way he treats Ukraine, you know, hey, sorry, you're the small guy. That's what happens when you're the small guy. Get used to it.
Joe Getty
Yeah, that's troubling.
Jack Armstrong
It is. So more on that later. Speaking of China, you weren't here on Thursday. You were playing golf, is that right?
Joe Getty
Correct. Yes, yes, yes. An exciting multi day tournament.
Jack Armstrong
And how did that go?
Joe Getty
Results coming up, My partner and I came very close to being on the verge of one step away from winning it. In other words, kind of, we were top of the pack but out of the money.
Jack Armstrong
There you go. But it was fine.
Joe Getty
It was fun. It was great fun. My body held up, more or less. Although my left wing, my left knee has written me an angry note which called me several, several nasty names. Very sore. You have wings.
Jack Armstrong
Knee.
Joe Getty
Knee. My old knee. Yeah. I don't have any wings anymore.
Jack Armstrong
You missed this nugget that I looked up. So they had the big meeting there in the great hall. They kept referring to the great hall. I talked a lot about how I just thought it was so weird that Trump and she meet there and all the kids are dancing and everything like that under the watchful gaze of a giant painting of Chairman Mao and how the world just ignores that. The most deadly human in the history of the world. There's a giant like 50 foot painting of Chairman Mao there. And everybody just said, you know, that's fine. Can you imagine if you went to Germany and there was a giant Hitler poster in Munich, Berlin, and then nobody would ignore that. Anyway, the great hall there, how big is it? It's 30 acres big. That's how big that building is. 30 acres.
Joe Getty
No wonder Trump felt like he had to build a new ballroom.
Jack Armstrong
It was built in the 50s by Mao, but 30 acre building, that's absolutely stunning. We got more on that though, particularly the interview about Taiwan, because that's important. I think I had one more thing I wanted to say before I tease this. Oh, anyway, let me hit you with a little of the Ebola stuff because that is in the news. Joe brought it up. So the, the last big outbreak was in 2018 of the Ebola virus. It's pretty much the worst virus on earth, I think. Is there anybody that could beat that?
Joe Getty
Don't you have to eat a chimp or sex one up or something?
Jack Armstrong
Well, we're about to get to the how you spread but the Ebola virus, it's named for the Ebola river there in the Congo. That's where it was first discovered. And it's. You get it. And your chance of dying is dependent on the situation. Can be 50, 50, which is pretty high, or it can be 90%. I mean, if you're in, if you're in bad health. But in 2018, 2300 people died. And between 2014 and 2016, 11,000 people died, which is. And then every time it, there's an outbreak, it starts spreading, people start dying. Everybody's like, oh my God. And then it goes away. And they're not exactly sure. That's one of the troubling aspects of it, is they don't know why it recedes and doesn't just end up taking over the world. If you ever saw the movie Outbreak with Dustin Hoffman from the 80s 90s, whenever that movie came out, like an exaggerated version of the worst case scenario if he had an Ebola outbreak. How does the human to human spread happen? Once, once a human is infected, the virus spreads through direct contact. It is not air, airborne. So that's very, very good news. So I could, if there was an Ebola outbreak in my town, pretty easily avoid getting it if I just stayed away from, well, blood or bodily fluids like urine, saliva, sweat, feces, vomit, breast milk and semen. I don't exchange those with only my closest friends.
Joe Getty
Right. More than one or two.
Jack Armstrong
Certainly you'd like that list again. You can go to the website. I don't know if I want to read it again.
Joe Getty
Oh boy.
Jack Armstrong
A little sweat on you'd be. But you know, the feces of the breast milk you got, you got to have a certain relationship with somebody for that to even happen.
Joe Getty
Well, wait a minute though, you know, like at the golf tournament, if my partner had the Ebola, you know, it's a warmish day and a little high five after making a birdie putt, all of a sudden I got the evil
Jack Armstrong
E. Well, don't, don't high five. A guy with Ebola would be the.
Joe Getty
Well, he didn't know he looked healthy. Damn it.
Jack Armstrong
You get sick pretty fast. The incubation period from the time of the infection to the onset of symptoms ranges from 2 to 21 days, but usually toward the former. So it within a couple of days of getting infected, you get pretty sick. And it goes fast. Symptoms usually start abruptly and progress through two main phases. This is for anybody listening right now who ends up with Ebola, the early phase, the dry symptoms. I, I prefer the dry symptoms. Before I get to the wet symptoms.
Joe Getty
Wait a minute. Yes.
Jack Armstrong
Sudden onset of fever, intense weakness and fatigue. I have that every day. Muscle and joint pain, headache and sore throat.
Joe Getty
I feel a cold.
Jack Armstrong
I don't know.
Joe Getty
I feel kind of crappy at least.
Jack Armstrong
I don't know.
Joe Getty
Wet symptoms.
Jack Armstrong
We did, we did eat that monkey we found by the side of the road. That can't be it. The advanced phase, the wet symptoms. Vomiting and diarrhea. A rash. Your kidney and liver stop working. And then internal and external. External bleeding. This can manifest an oozing from the gums, nipples in both men and women.
Joe Getty
That would get my attention sometimes your ears. Honey, you should really go to the doctor. You're bleeding from your nipples. Pretty much. Wow.
Jack Armstrong
Pretty much. Any.
Joe Getty
I'm going on my own, Trust me.
Jack Armstrong
Pretty much any orifice or orifice adjacent part of your body. Oh, that starts to bleed. That could be some of my favorite parts.
Joe Getty
Yeah, I don't know.
Jack Armstrong
Let's wait tomorrow and see if it goes away. It'll probably go away on its own. You're bleeding out of your eyeballs. Oh my God.
Joe Getty
Gee money. You laugh to keep from, you know, passing out. It sounds horrible.
Jack Armstrong
Massive bruising under the skin from all the internal bleeding. Death is usually called caused by multi organ failure and severe dehydration. The average fatality rate for Ebola is 50%, though it has varied from 25% to 90% in past outbreaks. It's hit villages and 90% of the people who got it died depending on the strain and then the quality of care that you can get. But it, you, you like, you know, like we mentioned, you kind of gotta really, really come in contact with somebody to get it. So if it were airborne, obviously that would be a huge problem. But it is not.
Joe Getty
Oh, goodness sakes. Yeah. What was the, what was the book? That movie was, Was that the hot zone? Is that right? Or was it.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, you know, I think the book was called the Hot Zone. Maybe the movie was called Hot Zone. I don't know. I read the book Hot Zone. If you've never read that. Holy crap, is that a good book.
Joe Getty
Oh boy. Oh boy. You don't want this.
Jack Armstrong
Okay, before we take a break, we got this for you. We have this now, Michael. I will set it up. But we have the, the joke, Michael. Okay, I will set up a joke from Saturday Night Live that I think you'll really, really enjoy. But first, a quick word from our
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was watching the news this morning, TV news, and it said, if you haven't seen the accident that happened at an air show, we've got that video for you. And I thought, I've seen it 500 times. So has everyone else who watches any news. If you follow any news, I don't know how we break out of this hottest YouTube video of the day news coverage that we have going on television, but we won't.
Joe Getty
It won't happen.
Jack Armstrong
You don't think, God dang it, even when we're at war, the lead story is, what's the coolest video that we've got today? Did a train hit a truck crossing the track somewhere or a plane crash or something, even though nobody was hurt, anything. An exciting video we can lead the news with.
Joe Getty
As I've said many times, and I will continue to say it, if you assembled all the greatest philosophers in the history of mankind, from Ben Franklin to Jesus of Nazareth and you know, all sages in between and said, all right, what do you think would happen if we put never ending entertainment in people's hands so they could entertain themselves at any moment all day long, Good for their souls or bad for them? And now, you know, the news is trying to compete with that.
Jack Armstrong
I never did get to it on Thursday. Maybe I will today. But I teased it a couple of times. They did a study, did you have to do a study. Do you need to quote the study? They did a study where adults put away their smartphones for two weeks and every single one of them said they enjoyed their life more. They were happier. Is that a shock to a single human being?
Joe Getty
It's worth repeating, though.
Jack Armstrong
It's like studies at the schools where the. The kids. I saw an interview with the teacher the other day over this. Some school district that finally adopted the no cell phones. The kids are happier according to studies. No freaking kidding. They're learning better. They're happier. No kidding. Really?
Joe Getty
Been watching Tick Tock Shorts. You'd already know that, right?
Jack Armstrong
Okay, jam this in before we take a break and get to mailbag. Saturday Night Live had its finale on Saturday night. Couple of things that became apparent. One, Will Ferrell is still one of the human funniest human beings who ever lived. Two, Paul McCartney is stealing from people at this point if he's charging tickets for his concerts, which is unfortunate because the last time he was on Saturday Night Live a couple of years ago, he did four songs and it was flipping awesome. Two Beatles songs, two wing songs, and it was so cool this time.
Joe Getty
Oh, he's.
Jack Armstrong
He can't sing anymore. He's a very old man. Did you watch any of that, Michael? I did, yeah.
Joe Getty
He's 83 years old, which is, you
Jack Armstrong
know, fine and good for you, Paul. You seem like a nice guy, but you can't sing anymore, so don't charge people.
Joe Getty
Yeah, if Great granddad wants to warble a couple. A couple of tunes around the piano in the parlor, that's fine. That's charming. But yeah, yeah.
Jack Armstrong
Anyhow, they also did as they always do on the season finale where Colin Jost and Michael Che, the two people that do the news, one is a white guy, one is a black guy. They write jokes for each other. And I had to mention the races because they write jokes for each other that will make the other one look bad or be uncomfortable saying the joke. And they tend to be racial, especially from Michael Chase. So he writes jokes as a black guy for the white guy, Colin Jost. That would make him really uncomfortable telling them. And here was one of them.
Joe Getty
Them. Michael B. Jordan won best Actor for his role in the vampire movie Sinners. A black vampire is just like a white vampire, except the only thing it sucks dry is the welfare state.
Jack Armstrong
Gotta admit, I laughed really hard at that one.
Joe Getty
I love that bit. Oh, I really do.
Jack Armstrong
The only thing he sucked dry was the welfare state.
Joe Getty
Oh, boy.
Jack Armstrong
Unfortunately, stereotype, we have got Mailbag on the way. Stay here Armstrong and Getty.
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Jack Armstrong
You know, we left out the conversation that we usually have around that thing they do on Saturday Night Live where they write each other inappropriate joke jokes. It's so weird as a psychological twist. So he makes that joke, the crowd laughs like crazy at it. But you can't say it unless you present it as this is a joke. You shouldn't say what. That doesn't make any that's what lots of jokes are. As Ricky Gervais has pointed out and we've talked about many, many times. The joke is I just said something inappropriate. And we're all laughing because we agree it's inappropriate.
Joe Getty
Yeah, it's funny. They've just added another layer because humor has long been it's okay to say things people aren't uncomfortable with because it's phrased as humor. And that's the way a lot of truth gets out. That's why every dictator can take anything. But being laughed at. Humor has incredible power, politically speaking. But so anyway, but so instead of that's been the reality forever. But now you've got to put one more layer to be politically correct. All right, now we're going to do jokes that you shouldn't do. And here it is. And then everybody gives you permission to laugh.
Jack Armstrong
People didn't cry or march or nobody was hurt.
Joe Getty
It's so stupid. Stupid. Oh my God. Here's your freedom longing quote of the day comes from the Great Russian Asker Act. You know, I'm reading and I'm talking author Dostoevsky talked about this before I left. But I just absolutely love this. When violence becomes fashionable, anything, literally anything, can be justified and more than likely will eventually be done. And therein lies the real horror, that one can commit the foulest and most villainous act without being in the least a villain yeah. Radical chic, revolutionary sheik.
Jack Armstrong
Well, that's what I was thinking yesterday. After that a little chick was flipping me off and mouthing whatever she was mouthing at me because I'm driving a Tesla. Some guy punches me in the head. Would she approve of that or not approve of that? Guarantee she would approve of that. And we're just, we're just like that far away from that sort of thing happening a lot, right?
Joe Getty
Yeah. Yep. Mailbag drops a note. Would you mailbag@armstrongandgetty.com I want to recognize first of all the many people who wrote lovely notes congratulating Katie and her hubby on the birth of their little baby, Donovan. I'm so sorry I wasn't part of the official unveiling slash announcement on Thursday, but it sounds absolutely lovely. I gotta go back and listen to it.
Jack Armstrong
We had some great conversations that were charming and cute and then also got to hear about all of her guts being taken out of her and laid
Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
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Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
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Joe Getty
You, you won't forget it.
Jack Armstrong
I don't think I would watch, but her husband was happy to see her liver looked okay based on their lifestyle.
Joe Getty
Oh, boy. Yeah, I wouldn't mind seeing mine. So everybody, thank you so much for the notes and we will pass them on. Mailbagarmstrongandgetti.com got this from just Steve enjoyed Friday's best of episode hearing the Ben Sasse piece again. But it made me wonder. We lament that good people do not run for Congress. But when someone good, quote unquote, does run and wins, like Sass, he resigns before he finishes his term. We'll never know if he would have been primaried. But what does it say about Sasse that he cannot finish his term as senator? Or what does it say about US politics? Being a politician in the United States since its founding means getting in the dirt and fighting hand to hand. And perhaps good people are not cut out for that role.
Jack Armstrong
True that.
Joe Getty
There may be some truth to that, Steve. But I think what Ben Sasse would tell you is I'm supposed to get into the dirt and fight hand to hand for what? To just raise money for the Republican Party to stay in power? There was nobody on. I'm speaking for Ben Sasse here. There was nobody on my team fighting for good legislation to ensure the long term stability of the country. So I got out. It was useless.
Jack Armstrong
I think that's why a lot of Decent people are leaving. Congress is. They don't try to legislate the big problems of the world anymore. So what am I doing?
Joe Getty
You know? And Steve, it's an interesting question. Somebody in a position like that, that saying there's no constituency here for that I can find no co sponsors, no teammates. I'm wasting the precious years of my life tilting against windmills. Or should he keep tilting and trying to get attention? Didn't change the tide. I don't know.
Jack Armstrong
And then the flip side is people who are like perfectly okay with, I'm fine with my career being I'm a star on Twitter and go to rallies and people cheer me and I stay in office. I don't need to. To accomplish anything. This is a cool life.
Joe Getty
I'm an influencer. I happen to be a congressperson. Yeah. So I'm an influencer with a pension and health care. And speaking of health care, on the escape of the Wuhan virus Ferg in Chattanooga. Nice to hear the folks in Chattanooga listening. Reminding us, guys, it's been known that lab techs in China would take no longer needed lab test animals and sell them to the local wet markets for a little cash.
Jack Armstrong
Wow.
Joe Getty
The main test animal for the COVID virus was the tree shrew. That was a. Has a very similar physiology to Americans. I'm sorry, to humans. That might explain how the virus escaped the Wuhan labs and originally blah, blah, blah, I wonder. And yes, he reminds us about how bad the lab security was there. We hammered that for years. And yet the US and news outlets are still massaging that part of the
Jack Armstrong
story of COVID And you weren't here for that, were you? The CIA whistleblower that we played? I don't think you were here for that. I don't think so, no. But. So he gave all that testimony about the CIA, believed it came out of the lab immediately. And then Fauci got involved and somehow it all got squashed and turned to a different story. Really interesting testimony the day Trump lands in China. So who was behind orchestrating that? Cuz obviously that story's gonna get obliterated in news coverage. I mean, that couldn't have been an accident. I mean, that was like one of the few days you could have guaranteed it gets no coverage.
Joe Getty
Yeah, that is odd. Very suspicious. I got another good one here, but no time. We'll squeeze it in later. Cool.
Jack Armstrong
Gonna bring you up to speed in a whole bunch of stories from the weekend. Some of it funny, some of it troubling, some of it'll make you Cry. Some of it'll make you wince. If you miss a segment, get the podcast. Armstrong and Getty on demand.
Joe Getty
The old crying wins. Sounds great. I'll stay tuned.
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Looking forward to the stuff that makes you wince. Armstrong and Getty.
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Date: May 18, 2026
Hosts: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty
This episode dives into America’s ongoing challenges and shifting public interest regarding the war in Iran, the latest polling on war support, U.S. foreign policy under President Trump, polarization and polling, a rundown of major global news (including a new Ebola outbreak and Ukraine-Russia escalation), and cultural commentary on American society. The hosts approach the news with their signature blend of irreverence, skepticism, and humor, moving fluidly from serious headlines to lighter asides.
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[13:41–14:13], [19:42–20:15], [26:32–28:38]
Ebola Variant Outbreak
Ukraine-Russia Escalation
Other News & Humor
For listeners seeking both insight and irreverence, this episode delivers a nuanced but biting take on the week’s big issues—especially America’s waning appetite for international conflict, the superficiality of media discourse, deepening polarization, and the social psychology underpinning it all.