It Happened Here...In America

Summary

Armstrong & Getty On Demand — "It Happened Here...In America"

Date: June 4, 2026
Hosts: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty
Podcast: iHeartPodcasts

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Episode Overview

This episode of Armstrong & Getty features the duo's signature blend of urgent, absurd, and humorous takes on current events and culture. The hosts open with personal misadventures—including a real-time scam experience—before exploring deeper discussions on scam culture, religious influence in American politics, campus activism, media upheaval, and the feelings that come with the end of the school year. The conversation is lively, often veering between pointed analysis and comedic tangents, always keeping a conversational, relatable tone.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

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1. Modern Scams: Personal Stories & Broader Implications

[02:32 – 06:45 | 11:49 – 12:04 | 42:27 – 42:53]

• Joe Getty shares a scam experience: He received a convincing DMV email, paid a purported fee, and realized too late he’d been swindled.
  • The scam was especially sneaky because it included the last five digits of his vehicle identification number (VIN).
  • “I think I got stolen from by a… some sort of scam artist… They thought, okay, we got an idiot here.” —Joe Getty (03:42)
• Jack Armstrong emphasizes the prevalence and sophistication of scams:
  • “Everybody sells your info because there’s money in it.” (04:10)
  • Advice: “These scams… never pay your bills. That’s the only defense—pay nothing.” (04:29)
• Ongoing confusion and wariness:
  • Joe describes phone standoffs with supposed debt collectors where it’s nearly impossible to verify who’s legitimate.
• Scams evolve with technology:
  • Joe laments clicking a suspicious link and worries about possible malware.
  • Jack warns, “There’s probably some AI-generated encryption slash ID system coming… But then the bad guys will harness the very same powers...” (05:49)
• Audience relatability: Michelangelo shares almost falling for an IRS scam, highlighting how universal and sophisticated these scams have become. (42:31)

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2. Quirky News Tangents: Bear Attack Gone Wrong

[07:05 – 08:59]

• The duo riff on viral weird news: a supposed video of a Bulgarian (later clarified as Russian) man getting attacked by a bear, with muddled, humorous speculation about the incident.
  • “Perhaps we stay in car to watch bear. Bear stay in car. Boris, come back.” —Jack Armstrong (08:50)
• Comparison to scam story:
  • Joe: “That guy and I should get together. Don’t click on a DMV link…and don’t get out of your car to say hello to the bear.” (08:42)

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3. Islamism in America: Political and Cultural Concerns

[12:04 – 17:05]

• Jack introduces a provocative premise: Islamist political and cultural influence is growing in the United States, referencing Britain and France as cautionary tales.
  • “Islamism is coming to the United States… in the person of Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib and others who would put the Quran before the Constitution.” —Jack Armstrong (12:17)
• Discussion centers on Adam Hamaway, Democratic nominee for Congress in NJ-12, who testified for the "Blind Sheikh" behind the first WTC bombing.
  • “This guy—good old buddy of a global leader in Islamist terrorism—is about to become a congressman...” —Jack Armstrong (16:22)
• Debate on nuanced religious influence in government, differentiation between how Christianity and Islam interact with secular constitutional principles.

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4. Campus & Left Activism: Harvard’s Asherah Journal

[17:05 – 21:28]

• Jack details Harvard Divinity School’s new journal "Asherah"—promoting queerness, Palestinian liberation, and leftist issues, even including erotic poetry.
  • “You gotta use all those terms—queerness, anti-racism, Palestinian liberation… war, fascism, genocide, global warming.” (19:10)
• Joe sarcastically: “AI—should have mentioned that. Flesh-eating worm pandemics.” (19:17)
• They lampoon the publication’s overwrought editorial and satirize the confluence of intersectional causes.
  • “It’s the eternal omnicause, which is neo-Marxism. Everybody with any gripe get together and overthrow Western civilization.” —Jack Armstrong (19:17)

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5. University Endowments & Funding Priorities

[20:45 – 21:28]

• Discussion on universities threatening that cuts to federal funding will halt life-saving research versus their massive endowments.
  • “If you’re close to curing cancer, how about you take a little bit of that money… since if this $80,000… is the difference between curing cancer or not…” —Joe Getty (21:09)

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6. Media Shake-Up: The Firing of Scott Pelley at 60 Minutes

[24:05 – 35:55]

• Scott Pelley’s termination from ‘60 Minutes’:
  • The hosts gleefully recount his alleged pomposity, including fake on-camera gestures and a legendary Starbucks order anecdote:
    • “When Scott Pelley gets in line at Starbucks… he orders what he wants people behind him to hear.” —Cheryl Atkinson via David Bloom (25:16)
• Commencement speech critique:
  • Pelley lamented that journalism, universities, and diversity programs are "under attack," using ironically dramatic language.
  • Jack parodies: “To summarize, progressives are not allowed to speak their minds on college campuses...” (27:48)
• Inside baseball:
  • Details emerge about meeting drama between Pelley and new management (Barry Weiss, Nick Bilton); clash over direction and accusations of dishonesty.
  • The hosts suggest Pelley was fired for cultural/practical reasons: he's costly, old-guard, and out of sync with desired changes.
• Media skepticism:
  • Jack asks rhetorically about Pelley: “He’s such an a-hole. I assume he’s lying.” (31:20)
  • Joe: “Scott Pelley is the perfect example of mistaking fame for importance.” (35:55)

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7. Life Stage Moments: End of School Year & Growing Up

[38:05 – 42:27]

• Joe reflects on rites of passage—kindergarten and middle school graduations, the emotional transition as his son finishes sophomore year and starts driving/working.
  • “But you know, the whole bittersweetness of the whole thing. I’m glad my son is to the age… but you know, I’m not excited about it.” (40:18)
• Both host reminisce about summer break anticipation:
  • “That last day of school feeling—boy, if they could put that in a pill, everybody’d be addicted.” —Jack Armstrong (40:18)
• The arc of youth to adulthood, and the nostalgia for endless summers.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On scams and privacy:
  • “Everybody sells your info because there’s money in it.” —Jack Armstrong (04:10)
  • “Never pay your bills. That’s the only defense—pay nothing.” —Jack Armstrong (04:29)
• On contemporary activism:
  • “It’s the eternal omnicause, which is neo-Marxism. Everybody with any gripe get together and overthrow Western civilization.” —Jack Armstrong (19:17)
• On media self-importance:
  • “Scott Pelley is the perfect example of mistaking fame for importance.” —Joe Getty (35:55)
  • “When Scott Pelley gets in line at Starbucks and orders coffee, he doesn’t order what he really wants. He orders what he wants people behind him to hear him order.” —Cheryl Atkinson relaying David Bloom (25:16)
• On growing up:
  • “That last day of school feeling—boy, if they could put that in a pill, everybody’d be addicted...” —Jack Armstrong (40:18)

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Important Segment Timestamps

| Segment | Timestamps | |-----------------------------------------------------|------------------| | Scam Story & Privacy Discussion | 02:32 – 06:45 | | Bear Attack Bizarre News | 07:05 – 08:59 | | Islamism in America & Adam Hamaway Discussion | 12:04 – 17:05 | | Harvard's Asherah Journal / Campus Left Activism | 17:05 – 21:28 | | University Endowments & Priorities | 20:45 – 21:28 | | Media Drama: Scott Pelley Firing/60 Minutes | 24:05 – 35:55 | | Life Lessons: End of School Year & Growing Up | 38:05 – 42:27 | | Final Thoughts / Reflections on Scams/Youth | 42:27 – 43:46 |

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Tone, Language & Style

• The tone is conversational, irreverent, and at times, bitingly sarcastic.
• The hosts readily switch between mock outrage, earnest skepticism, and self-deprecating humor.
• Language is informal, peppered with cultural references and signature banter.

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Summary Wrap-Up

This episode captures Armstrong & Getty’s freewheeling spirit, blending personal misfortune (scam anxiety), social satire (bear attacks, campus activism), urgent political warnings (Islamism in America), and biting media critique (Pelley’s firing). The episode is classic Armstrong & Getty—unfiltered, playful, and acutely aware of both the ridiculous and the serious currents shaping American life. If you’re looking for a pulse on the week’s chaos with plenty of laughs, this episode delivers.

Transcript

[Joe Getty]

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[Jack Armstrong]

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[Jack Armstrong]

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[Joe Getty]

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[Jack Armstrong]

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[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, and if you wink at the cashier weed.

[Joe Getty]

I think I got stolen from by a. By some sort of scam artist. I don't know that I've ever been stolen from. I probably have been. Don't know of. I got a letter, an email allegedly from the DMV saying how much I owed on my. To register for something that I had some vehicle that we don't use that had lapsed or something. Anyway, owed some money and I thought, is this a scam thing or is Because I went to the DMV website and I couldn't come up with it anywhere there. But it's very hard to use that website and it's not user friendly at all. And so it doesn't necessarily mean that. Anywho, it had the last five numbers of my vin, so I thought that's a pretty good indication that this is real. How would it have the last. But anyway, I. I paid it and I didn't get any confirmation email from the DMV like you usually do. I can't come up with anything anywhere. I think, I think I just paid somebody that made me think that this has happened is I got another one today for a larger amount.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, oh, boy.

[Joe Getty]

I just got it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Got a live one.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. They thought, okay, we got an idiot here. You owe $2,450 for. For this vehicle, you know, and all our information's floating around out there. Sign on to incogni as we've been talking about. Probably my VIN from who knows what that's floating around for somewhere because your insurance company has it or who knows who has it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, your car dealer has it.

[Joe Getty]

Car dealer has it.

[Jack Armstrong]

And I don't think there's any agreement that that's private probably.

[Joe Getty]

Right? Or maybe I got the windshield replaced once and the one of those window replacement places has it or who knows who. Lots of people do. And everybody sells your info because there's money in it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah.

[Joe Getty]

God dang it. That's mad.

[Jack Armstrong]

How much did he get you for?

[Joe Getty]

$1200, which ain't nothing.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, man, that'll leave a mark. Oh, and it's everywhere. Everywhere, all the time. These scams never pay your bills. That's the only defense. Pay nothing.

[Joe Getty]

Mortgage. What mortgage?

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't know about any mortgage. You moved into your house, right? You didn't pay cash for the whole thing. Yeah, maybe. What's your point? I've never heard of you. We've been your bank for 20 years. All right. I've been trying to decide to be

[Joe Getty]

the other day with the bill collector who was wrong. I had paid the bill, but he called me up and said, is this. Says my name. I said, who's this? Who's this? He asks me like, how dare you ask me that question? I said an even louder voice. Who's this?

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, you win.

[Joe Getty]

I'm with so and so company. Who are you? And I said, maybe you are, maybe you aren't. I'm not going to give you. But he asked for million, my address and a whole bunch of different stuff. I said, yeah, I don't know who you are. I'm who I said I was. Oh, okay. Well then.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, wow. That settles it. Wow.

[Joe Getty]

But you end up with that standoff all the time, and it's just, it's really hard to nail down what's real and what's not.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'll bet that there is. Oh, my God. Well, I'll finish my sentence then. Then disagreement with myself. I'll bet there is some AI generated encryption, slash ID system coming that.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I hope so. I hope so.

[Jack Armstrong]

But then I realized, well, the bad guys will harness the very same powers somehow to overcome it and screw it up in the rest of it. Yeah. So it's getting harder and harder. So we've, We've. We've spent.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, it's worse than that.

[Jack Armstrong]

And amusingly, most of this segment.

[Joe Getty]

Yes, it's worse than that, now that I think about it. To pay the bill, I clicked on the link in the perhaps fake DMV email. So not only did I pay that bill, but clicking on a link, they could be into my phone all kinds of different ways.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's possible. Yeah. They didn't have you download the app, did they? Or anything like that?

[Joe Getty]

No, and I used Apple Pay, so at least it's not straight into my bank account. But anyhoo. Yeah, crap. I may have finally fallen for one of these.

[Jack Armstrong]

Michael Cliff, number 16 in another story.

[Joe Getty]

He doesn't have a 16. Joe made that up.

[Jack Armstrong]

A question for the. The whole Armstrong and get it crew.

[Joe Getty]

You misspoke.

[Jack Armstrong]

You misspoke. My eyes, as you know, my. I have progressive glasses. I don't know right things.

[Joe Getty]

And they're progressed to you saying, we don't have.

[Jack Armstrong]

You call them progressive.

[Joe Getty]

They're Marxists.

[Jack Armstrong]

They're Marxist glass. You don't have the best health care. In another story. One second. That's the sound of a Bulgarian man being attacked by a bear.

[Joe Getty]

Well, how, Andy?

[Jack Armstrong]

Apparently there was some other video going on and there he is in the background be set by a bear. One second.

[Joe Getty]

I'm confused.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's a rough day.

[Joe Getty]

Why is the guy yelling in the background and the guy, the loud guy who's getting attacked by the bear? The loud guy in the background. The guy in the background. The guy in the background shrieking for his life. So he's on the phone with some

[Jack Armstrong]

dude who then gets some sort of videotaping or something.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, they're like zoom call. And then somebody gets attacked by bear.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, right. In the background. Yeah, yeah. One second, one second.

[Joe Getty]

What's going on? I have the details. I have the details Hanson just gave me. It's two dudes in a car. They see a bear, they stop. One guy gets out and gets attacked by the bear.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow. Wow. Really make you reconsider the whole getting out and looking at the bear thing?

[Joe Getty]

Well, so that guy and I should get together. Don't click on a DMV link without and don't get out of your car to say hello to the bear.

[Jack Armstrong]

Boris. Boris, I have idea. Perhaps we stay in car to watch. Bear stay in car. Boris, come back.

[Joe Getty]

I'm tell.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'm told that's not quite right. The bear climbed into the window and attacked him. Okay, so the bear climbed into the window. What? The car window. Boris, roll window up again quickly.

[Joe Getty]

I'm being told it was a high speed chase. The bear overtook them in in his own car. Okay, we will straighten this all out and have more for you coming up next.

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[Joe Getty]

Just got an email from the DMV that says Scam Alerts for dmv. Click on here to be alerted. How to find a scam which is probably a scam from that same company.

[Jack Armstrong]

100% a scam.

[Joe Getty]

Oh wow, okay.

[Jack Armstrong]

I wonder if they heard you saying I just got scammed. Oh no. So here's what we were going to talk about last segment before the show got derailed by DMV scams and Romanian bear attacks. We're going to start with the SER stuff and then the kind of funny stuff. Here's my premise, and I have absolutely zero fear of being contradicted. Islamism is coming to the United States. The Islamic form of government, fundamentalist Islam. It's already done enormous damage to Great Britain and in France, and it's coming here. It's in the person of Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib and others who would put the Quran before the constitution.

[Joe Getty]

You mean certain towns or counties or.

[Jack Armstrong]

No, just that their philosophy and the

[Joe Getty]

way you stated it sounded like it was going to take over. It's not going to take over the country.

[Jack Armstrong]

No, but it will. No, it starts in small places and metastasizes outward. And just for the sake of the argument, if you're thinking, well, I'm a Christian and I put Christ at the top of my list even before country. The fundamental difference that you have to understand is not only does Christianity have the concept of the secular, but Christianity is the source of the idea that every human being has worth and that there's the spiritual kingdom and then there's the physical kingdom, and that the two are unrelated. Islam ignores both those things, and it's fundamentally different to put Islam before the constitution than Christianity. Anyway, this Adam Hamaway won The primary in Michigan to become a congressman. This is the guy you may have heard of who testified on behalf of the Mastermind of the 1993 World Trade center bombing, the Blind Sheik. He's a plastic surgeon, retired army doctor. He won a crowded primary. I'm sorry, for New Jersey's safely blue 12th congressional district and is expected to win the seat in November.

[Joe Getty]

And it was known as people were voting, that he was a character witness for a terrorist.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, that's correct. And Andy McCarthy and Andrew McCarthy in the National Review has written a terrific article. I'm gonna quote some of it. The Democratic nominee for a House seat in New Jersey was a sympathizer of the Blind Sheikh who inspired the first World Trade center bombing. Goes into Adam Hamoway, who testified at the trial in 95. Andy says, I'm not surprised, alas, for reasons I explained last month here, and we could get into that. But he said, to recap, the Blind Sheikh was already a notorious figure in global jihadist C when he was permitted to relocate to the US in 1990. Astonishingly, federal immigration authorities first admitted him on a tourist visa, then issued him a green card rationalizing that he was a religious worker. He had publicly taken credit for issuing the fatwa that greenlighted the murder of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. He was in a position to give such directives and to lead, recruit and raise funds for terror networks because he was a renowned scholar of Islamic jurisprudence. Prudence. At a university in Cairo, the seat of Sunni. Sunni Islamic learning for more than a millennium. He figured prominently, along with Osama bin Laden and others, in the formation of Al Qaeda during the jihad in Afghanistan against the Soviets. And after the Soviets withdrew, bin Laden decided to take the jihad global. But anyway, this Hamaway character was a friend and aide to the Blind Sheikh, which is why he voluntarily appeared as a witness for him. What he's testifying about was a trip to Detroit in 1991. And a government informant had testified that during the trip, when the informant was discussing his time in the Egyptian army, the Blind Sheikh asked him, why didn't you turn your gun on Mubarak, who succeeded Sadat after Sadat was wiped out by fundamentalist Muslims? Hamoi claimed, not very convincingly, that he hadn't heard that conversation. The Blind Sheikh didn't ask me that. But the evidence that Abd al Rahman, the Blind Sheikh, conspired to murder Mubarak and repeatedly called for his association was overwhelming. Everybody heard him say it, and the jury convicted him of conspiracy and incitement in connection with Mubarak as well as seditious conspiracy to levy war against the United States, among other terrorism related charges. Hemoy conceded on cross examination that although the economics was the supposed subject of the Detroit conference they went to, Abdul Rahman used the occasion to urge violent jihad against the United States and Israel. And in fact this Hamaway guy who is about to be a congressman, said, of course that's what he always talked about. He talked about jihad, you know, so this guy, good old buddy of a global leader in Islamist terrorism is about to become a congressman and he will push gently at first and then more and more firmly for, you know, he'll call it Palestinian rights or the ability for people to live according to their own beliefs. In America you have freedom of religion. So we want to have Sharia courts decide divorce and child abuse cases.

[Joe Getty]

Then you get one more hoof inside the tent.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, exactly true, exactly true. And this is not the only guy, you know, I want to talk about Qatar's influence buying in America, but I don't know that was serious enough. So I'll go with this. As it fights anti Semitism lawsuits from the federal government, Harvard University says that federal funding cuts are threatening its life saving research and so the feds need to call off the dogs. But at the same time, the university's Divinity school is putting resources, admittedly not a ton, but resources, behind a new publication devoted to queerness and Palestinian liberation that's named after a Canaanite goddess. Again, this is the Harvard Divinity School where you study to, you know, get a PhD in religion or whatever. The first issue of Asherah, a Harvard Divinity School journal, is a project of anti Israel Jewish studies professor Shaul Magid writes Ira Stole in the Free Beacon. It's really something to behold even by the provocative and sophomoric standards of student publications. It includes a statement from the student editors. Two women, naturally, who write that they are not scholars of the ancient texts, did not go to yeshiva, are not rabbis in quotes for some reason, but are instead coming, and I'm quoting now, coming from the sidelines of mainstream Jewish life, largely because of our queerness, our anti racism, our support for Palestinian liberation. They also note that this publication finds itself at a moment encumbered by war, by fascism and genocide, by religious and ethno nationalism, by a reckoning with the rapid development of AI, to which you're like, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. We're covering a lot of ground here and its impact on planet and people by climate collapse, ah, by pandemics and by the pervasive presence of disconnection and loneliness. So what a great tutorial. And you've got to use all those terms. Queerness, anti racism, Palestinian liberation. You throw in war, fascism, genocide, global warming.

[Joe Getty]

AI should have mentioned that flesh eating worm pandemics.

[Jack Armstrong]

The screw worm. Right, Exactly. It's the eternal omnic cause, which is neo Marxism. Everybody with any gripe get together and overthrow Western civilization. But here we go. Later on, the issue includes some erotic poetry.

[Joe Getty]

Here we go.

[Jack Armstrong]

Settle in everybody, as Uncle Joe reads you erotic poetry from the Harvard Divinity School journal. Queerness, Palestinian climate change. AI paper endemic. Screw worm magazine. We fell asleep laughing, blanketed in heavy tonguing prayer temple worshipers, also called trans bed makers. I have never sexted so well. Stomach, thigh. I wonder if God hears bed prayer in two different ears. Consummating interfaith with fingers. And then Ira Stole writes to clear up any confusion. The latter verse was not written by Graham Platner, although he may take inspiration from it. Oh my Lord. Anti Israel students and professors producing a queer erotic poetry magazine named after a Canaanite goddess with the university's financial support. That's Harvard.

[Joe Getty]

Hey, speaking of the whole not funding universities or whatever, I heard somebody make this argument a while back. Remember when Doge was really going and then they were cutting funding for various things and people were screaming, we're this close to curing cancer and you've pulled our funding. And I heard somebody make the argument the other day, you've got a $50 billion endowment.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

So if you're close to curing cancer, how about you take a little bit of that money? Since if this $80,000 or the varieties of amounts of money that were being cut is the difference between curing cancer or not. How about take some of that $50 billion you're sitting on and spending money starts flowing again.

[Jack Armstrong]

Exactly.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. I think if it's important enough, maybe you would. Anyway, more on the way.

[Jack Armstrong]

Armstrong and Gettysburg.

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[Joe Getty]

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Google Play Lingokids everything kids love. CBS just fired longtime 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley.

[Jacob Goldstein]

Yeah, the story gets more bizarre because

[Jack Armstrong]

today CBS announced they replacing Scott Pelley with Byron Allen. Yeah, in the Last few months, 60

[Joe Getty]

Minutes has lost multiple producers and correspondents.

[Jack Armstrong]

You could tell that they got rid

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of a lot of people because the

[Jack Armstrong]

show is now called 60 seconds.

[Joe Getty]

And he goes, wow, that's beneath him. Wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

Crowd booing A joke for eight year olds.

[Joe Getty]

Crowd booing to the firing of Scott Pelley. Pompous asshat Scott Pelly. I'm telling you, if you want the definition of pompous, go back three weeks and watch his interview with Senator Ben Sasse, who's dying of cancer. That is the most pompous display of all time. I mean, it is something else.

[Jack Armstrong]

You highlighted one particular gesture of his. And I came across this on the Twitter. Randy Cruz wrote this. I was an intern at CBS News when Pelly would fill in for Katie Couric on the evening news. I watched in the control room one day as he directed them to slowly put the shot, push the shot in on him as he took his glasses off. It was so fake. I've remembered it for 15 years. Carefully orchestrated. And then Cheryl Atkinson, once a good friend of the Armstrong Getty show, said, perhaps David Bloom put it best. Quote, when Scott Pelley gets in line at Starbucks and orders coffee, he doesn't order what he really wants. He orders what he wants people behind him to hear him order.

[Joe Getty]

That's really good. Oh, boy. So though I don't know what's going on here. So Scott Pelly is a pompous asshat, despite the fact that I'm a 60 Minutes fan. What do we want first? We want his pushback or be reminded of what. What he's like. Maybe we'll do that first. So Scott Pelley from last year, I guess he gave a commencement address.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. Yes, Joe. Yeah. His claim being that the new management dared to interject politics into their pure hearted reporting and how outrageous that was because they're straight down the middle. Journalists.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, but in this. Go ahead. But in this moment, this moment, this morning, our sacred rule of law is under attack. Is it? Journalism is under attack. Universities are under attack. Freedom of speech is under attack. And insidious fear is reaching through our schools, our businesses, our homes, and into our private thoughts. Who the fear to speak

[Jack Armstrong]

in America.

[Joe Getty]

Power can rewrite history with grotesque false narratives. They can make criminals heroes and heroes criminals. That's the reverse. Power can change the definition of the words we use to describe reality.

[Jack Armstrong]

People are twisting the.

[Joe Getty]

Diversity is now described as illegal. Equity is to be shunned. Inclusion is a dirty word. This is an old playbook, my friends. There's nothing new in this.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow. To summarize, progressives are not allowed to speak their minds on college campuses. And DEI is being demonized, even though those words, we all know what those words are. Good Lord. I don't think he's a dedicated neo Marxist.

[Joe Getty]

I don't think so either.

[Jack Armstrong]

He's a dupe.

[Joe Getty]

He actually believes that his crowd using diversity, equity, inclusion, they're using it in a completely honest way.

[Jack Armstrong]

Why? That's what DEI programs are after.

[Joe Getty]

And the whole reaching into your thoughts, what was that all about? Anywho, I don't know how you get that far off track where you think. I mean, I have a side I like better than the other side, but I would never in a million years claim that my side doesn't lie and cheat and twist and everything that goes on. In the world of trying to win

[Jack Armstrong]

arguments include fraudsters and poltergeists. Like Candace Owens is in Moscow right now touting how wonderful Russia is.

[Joe Getty]

Is she really?

[Jack Armstrong]

What a joke. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

But anyway, I'm kind of confused by this part of it. So if you've been following the story at all or listening to us. So Scott Pelly got fired the other day, it sounds like, at least according to Barry Weiss who runs the news organization. And then that guy under him who runs 60 minutes, I forget, under her who runs 60 minutes, forget his name. Is that here? Might be here built in Nick Bilton. So they have this meeting, but they knew they were going to have this meeting with the 60 Minute people. And they knew Scott Pelley was going to a bit of an obstacle. Cause he'd been out there saying some controversial things. So they got ahold of him, they called him, they tried to head this off and say, hey, can we come to some sort of agreement or meet beforehand before the big meeting? And Scott Pelly didn't want to. And then they walk into the meeting and Scott Pelly immediately hits him with a why are you here knowing nobody wants you here? And everybody cheered and dude, Nick Bilton says, you're not gonna intimidate me in front of this crowd. And Scott Pelly goes on about your Barry Weiss is unqualified and trying murder this program. And so he gets up and says, enjoy your bagels and walks out. And Nick Bilton does any. Who Scott Pelly says it didn't happen that way at all. He put out a letter yesterday. I'm saddened to see the transcript of the CBS News morning editorial meeting. Barry Weiss knows what she said is not true. And the meeting on Tuesday in which I was effectively fired. There was no effort of effort of any kind to find a way back. As we said in the editorial meeting, at no point did anyone in the Tuesday meeting suggest that there could be steps taken by either side that would lead to a resolution. Uh, Weiss and this other dude were openly hostile from the start. Firing was raised by them in the first 15 seconds. No CBS executive at any time suggested a way back. And then he goes through specific things. In fact, Weiss, the Sobrowski and Nick Bilton refused to answer my questions. I asked Weiss a number of questions about why she fired the entire staff a few days before and without cause. I'm not answering that question. She said. I asked, why did she not come to the 60 Minutes offices to explain her actions? I'm not answering that question. Anyway, he goes through all this stuff. He's disputing their accounting of what happened in the meeting, that meeting and beforehand. So he's pretty specific also. So what do you think's going on there?

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't know. He's such an a hole. I assume he's lying. So you had the big meeting where there was the blow up, and then they got him to show up to a small meeting with the people you mentioned in private to see if they could find a way forward. And they're claiming he was completely intransigent and he's saying no. They opened up with hostility, mentioned firing me and never gave me a chance and wouldn't answer my questions. They had no chance. Intention of a pathway forward. He said. She said, go away. Go. You want me to go? Yes, go.

[Joe Getty]

I am pained that the staff. I won't actually read it at his pace because we have time limits. I am pained that the staff of CBS News was misled in the conference call. These executives cannot gain the trust of the staff with lies. This is antithetical to everything we stand for and reveals contempt for what journalists do.

[Jack Armstrong]

And Michael, the fact that it would happen here in America, even worse,

[Joe Getty]

they

[Jack Armstrong]

pervert language diversity is. Now they're.

[Joe Getty]

It's possible, having been in the real world for a long time, in particularly media, it's possible that they had decided to fire him and there was no keeping his job. And, and because we. We've seen that. We've seen that. I mean, they had a plan and they act like, you know, there are other options on the table, but they had a plan, usually around cutbacks, usually around financial cutbacks, that. So we have to get rid of these people. We're getting rid of these people. We're gonna act like there's a dialogue involved or anything like that, that they. They do that. I've seen it. So that's possible that that's what happened at cbs. And, and Pelly's just angry that they pretended there was an option for him to stay.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't know. Nobody's debating that. He gave the speech he gave at the meeting and told Nick Bilton he wasn't welcome. Barry Weiss was completely unqualified and trying to murder the program. I mean, everybody agrees that happened, right?

[Joe Getty]

I'm just saying it could be possible that there is no path for him to stay, that they had decided he had to go. And we're just looking for the smoothest way to. To enact that because I think he had to go. He's expensive and he doesn't fit in with what they're trying to do. They want to bring 60 Minutes back to something that is more respectable. Journal, and there's no way he was going to be part of that.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, I don't agree that that's true necessarily. Just because Barry Weissen, Nick what's his name. Reached out multiple times before the big meeting where he, where he tried. Pelly tried to stage the coup to say, hey, can we get together? Can we have dinner? Can we talk about the future together? He refused every time.

[Joe Getty]

They're more optimistic than I would have been, though. I mean, so if he's calling what they want to do distortions and lies because he feels like what he was doing was the straight down the middle, the honest truth.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right.

[Joe Getty]

Give me a break.

[Jack Armstrong]

He's too twisted.

[Joe Getty]

If you're. If you wouldn't watch, if you're on social media at all, there's all kinds of clips going around from 60 minutes episodes over the last several years of Scott Belly completely allowing, for instance, FBI Director Andrew McCabe go on and on and on about. About a whole bunch of crap about the Russian collusion thing that was not true and everybody knew it wasn't true. But Scott Belly with his glasses off and one stem in his mouth looking off in the distance.

[Jack Armstrong]

And we didn't play this yesterday. But then There was the 60 minutes extra in which he and the producer got together and talked about how incredibly sound a source McCabe was, how he's completely unimpeachable as a source. Just before he just lied up and down at Congress and others. Got this note from Frankie in Georgia. Just wanted to reach out to you during these difficult times and say that I'm concerned about Scott Pelley. Not for him personally, but for the future of your Scott Pelly impressions. You've almost perfected them. Bernie Sanders clips and your impressions of him always crack me up, but those have slowly dwindled away. I'm not sure I can handle losing another one in America. We need to cut down the millionaires and billionaires. We need to cut down the millionaires and billionaires. We need to cut them down. Cut them down there, Frankie. I hope you enjoyed that. Go away. Scott Pelly is the perfect example of mistaking fame for importance.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, yeah, in his own head. Oh.

[Joe Getty]

What do you think we ought to eat tonight? Scott, you got any ideas? Where would I like. I'm gonna eat with someone else.

[Jack Armstrong]

I just. I'm gonna doordash. Never mind.

[Joe Getty]

Okay. We will finish strong next in America.

[Jack Armstrong]

Armstrong and Getty.

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[Joe Getty]

Mom, can I have Lingokids? Dad, Lingokids, please. When did we become the Lingokids house?

[Jack Armstrong]

No idea. Last week it was dinosaurs.

[Joe Getty]

This week it was Lingokids. Why Lingokids?

[Jack Armstrong]

Because it's the best thing ever.

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We can play games with astronauts, wild animals, and superheroes.

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So no dinosaurs and dinosaurs.

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Everything kids love. Download it for free. Did you do an eighth grade graduation when you were a kid?

[Jack Armstrong]

No, I have no memory of it.

[Joe Getty]

I think we did. Which I did. I don't remember thinking about much at the time, but in retrospect, it's, what the heck is that? And then they've added in kindergarten graduations. I've seen these online. We did one. My kids did one, but it was just a certificate in juice boxes, I think. But I saw one.

[Jack Armstrong]

What do they call them? Completion ceremonies?

[Joe Getty]

Something. I don't know people in their ceremonies. But I saw one the other day where they had actual caps and gowns for these kindergarteners. You know why? Because it looks adorable. That's why. These things exist for pictures like you've always talked about with the sports things, the uniforms. You don't need to have a full baseball uniform as a five year old,

[Jack Armstrong]

but you shouldn't be on a field at all.

[Joe Getty]

You sure look cute in it. So there you go. But anyway, a different topic is my son gets done with his sophomore year today. And this will be the first year since his kindergarten year that I don't pick him up from school. He drives now. Plus he's going out with friends afterwards and they're gonna go just do stuff. Which is what you should do when you're 16 years old. You're dead, probably, but it'll be the first year I don't pick him up. Jamming schools out for summer out the windows of my truck in the parking lot when he gets in. Alice Cooper schools out forever. Which is.

[Jack Armstrong]

Except it's not.

[Joe Getty]

It's out for a measly 10 weeks in the modern world before school starts back up again. But you know, it's, it's all of the stuff with kids getting older, especially when they get older. I had a friend who was talking the other day about their, their nephew, you graduated from high school and they'd been picking him up from school to help out with the family for years. And that, that was. Era was over and they were really sad about it, while at the same time, you know, the alternative is no good. What, them staying at home forever or staying in school forever or whatever. But you know, the whole bittersweetness of the whole thing. I mean, I'm glad my son is to the age of. He drives himself and he hangs out with friends as opposed to being with his mom and dad. But you know, I'm not excited about it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah. That last day of school feeling, boy, if they could put that in a pill, everybody'd be addicted. There'd be even more junkies laying around on the sidewalks of America.

[Joe Getty]

No kidding. I hated school so much. I mean, so it was even more for me than the average person. I hated school. And so it being over for a little while and you know, when you're a kid, summer seems like forever. So it was like school was out forever because, oh my God, school's out. It's so far off when it starts again, I don't even need to think about it. Which an adult. It goes by like that.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh yeah, yeah. But yeah, as a high schooler, when you first Start to get summer jobs and. Or you're required to get a summer job, and every day you don't have one, you hear about it. I remember that. Yeah, yeah. That changes the complexion of the summertime a bit. True.

[Joe Getty]

This is going to be his first year summer where he's working as opposed to just. Just, you know, loafing with his friends. That's a different thing. Yeah, that was different because I worked a hard job during the summer, starting when I was 15, I guess, or 14. And so when school year started, it was. I get to take a little break for a while.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, yeah? Yeah. I still remember the feeling of Gladys. I think I was like a. It was after my freshman or maybe sophomore year high school, and a couple of my friends were a couple years older than me, and we had four summer after summer, played wiffle ball until our throwing arms were hanging from our shoulders. We couldn't even lift them because we just played and played and played. And I remember the first time I gave him a call, I guess, and said, hey, you want to whiffle this afternoon? He's like, no, I gotta work. I'm like, wait, what?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, that's funny. That's. That's exactly what happened to my son. Because the weekends have started to become like that. One of them's got a job or this or that or whatever, and it's a lot harder to get together than it used to be.

[Jack Armstrong]

Two points. Number one, childhood had come to a close. Number two, yes, we used whiffle as a verb.

[Joe Getty]

I said, final.

[Jack Armstrong]

You say thoughts.

[Joe Getty]

Final thoughts.

[Jack Armstrong]

Final thoughts.

[Joe Getty]

Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty. Let's get a final thought from everybody

[Jack Armstrong]

on the crew to wrap up the show for the day. Wouldn't that be delightful? Michelangelo, lead us off. What's your final thought? The closest I ever got to getting scammed was when I was younger. I got the IRS call and they wanted to collect on my tax debt. And I thought it was legit. And I got about halfway through, and then something said, this isn't right, and I just quickly hung up. Yeah, good call. Good call. Your instincts served you well, young man. Jack, a final thought for us.

[Joe Getty]

That feeling. Feeling of school being out and you walk out that door, it's just what's.

[Jack Armstrong]

What comes.

[Joe Getty]

Is there anything that comes close to that, that. That same feeling? No, there isn't. You would think there would be, but I don't think there is. I can't come up with it.

[Jack Armstrong]

That Friday afternoon when you walk out of work and it's vacation. You're taking a week off or whatever.

[Joe Getty]

That's like closed. Yeah. I wonder why we haven't retired. So maybe when you retire you get that feeling. I have no idea.

[Jack Armstrong]

Perhaps. Yes. Oh gosh. My final thought is. I. I don't really have one. Don't have a final thought.

[Joe Getty]

Wow. No more thoughts. Used up all your thoughts.

[Jack Armstrong]

Eat a balanced diet. Take care of yourself. Cleanliness is next to godliness.

[Joe Getty]

Used up all your thoughts today?

[Jack Armstrong]

If you're in Romania and you see a bear, stay in your car and multiple thoughts.

[Joe Getty]

Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.

[Jack Armstrong]

So many people to thank, so little time. Pick ups Mangy swag, would you?

[Joe Getty]

Cool.

[Jack Armstrong]

T shirt or hat or hoodie? Did these enforce the law? T shirt flying off the shelves?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, those are very, very cool. I wish I could grow a mustache like Timothee Chalamet. I just saw him on the tv.

[Jack Armstrong]

How many talents does this boy have at day singing? Mustache growing?

[Joe Getty]

We will see tomorrow. God bless America.

[Jack Armstrong]

Armstrong and Getty.

[Joe Getty]

Shohei Otani. He's got to be like the equivalent of 8 foot tall, doesn't he?

[Jack Armstrong]

They gotta fear him like Godzilla.

[Joe Getty]

I mean, man, when he comes back to Tokyo, he's probably walking through the streets and they got airplanes flying around and try to stop him. Makes those noises.

[Jack Armstrong]

I've never heard him make that noise. But he might.

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[Joe Getty]

Mom, can I have Lingokids? Dad, Lingokids, please. When did we become the Lingokids house?

[Jack Armstrong]

No idea. Last week it was dinosaurs.

[Joe Getty]

This week it's Lingokids. Why Lingokids?

[Jack Armstrong]

Because it's the best thing ever.

[Joe Getty]

We can play games with astronauts, wild animals and superheroes.

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[Joe Getty]

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[Jack Armstrong]

So no dinosaurs and dinosaurs.

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