It Would Be Better If You Say You Are On Cold Medicine

Summary

Armstrong & Getty On Demand Episode: It Would Be Better If You Say You Are On Cold Medicine Release Date: February 27, 2025

In this episode of the Armstrong & Getty On Demand podcast, hosts Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty delve into a series of pressing and controversial topics ranging from celebrity news to higher education conflicts, international relations, and technological mishaps. Their candid discussions are interspersed with sharp commentary and notable quotes that provide deeper insights into each subject matter.

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1. The Mysterious Death of Gene Hackman

The episode opens with an unexpected update on the legendary actor Gene Hackman. Hosts Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty discuss reports from sources like the Daily Mail and TMZ about Hackman and his wife’s sudden and unexplained deaths.

• Jack Armstrong (00:34): "A man and his wife have died. Their bodies were found."

The hosts express skepticism regarding the authenticity and completeness of the reports, contemplating possible causes ranging from natural death to foul play.

• Joe Getty (02:28): "First of all, we need an Egyptologist to call in. How long does it take for a body to begin the mummification process?"

They explore the timeline of decomposition, the circumstances of the discovery, and the potential psychological impacts on those left behind.

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2. Campus Turmoil at Columbia and Barnard Colleges

Shifting focus to higher education, Armstrong and Getty tackle the unrest at Columbia University and Barnard College. They critique the political activism engulfing these institutions, highlighting incidents involving pro-Hamas protesters and the subsequent administrative responses.

• Joe Getty (10:35): "Columbia had to apologize yesterday because a teacher in the astronomy department was found to have inserted political views within the syllabus for a class session in violation of university policy."

The discussion underscores the tension between academic freedom and political expression, questioning the implications for university policies and student safety.

• Jack Armstrong (12:23): "We let it happen. I blame myself."

The hosts lament the perceived decline in educational standards and the increasing politicization of academic environments.

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3. Economic Tensions and China's Global Maneuvers

A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to international relations, specifically the rising tensions with China. The hosts analyze comments from Howard Lutnick, the Secretary of Commerce, regarding China’s economic strategies and military posturing.

• Howard Lutnick (22:32): "The thing that concerns me most is China. There's a giant country who hates us, who wants us to not have this way of life..."

Armstrong and Getty dissect Lutnick’s remarks, discussing issues such as intellectual property theft, economic competition, and China's expanding military influence.

• Joe Getty (24:11): "Boy, that Drop in."

They emphasize the need for robust policies to counteract China's aggressive moves in various sectors, including technology and trade.

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4. Tech Glitches and AI Controversies

The hosts address a peculiar technological glitch reported by users of Apple’s voice-to-text feature, where the word "racist" is mistakenly transcribed as "Trump."

• Joe Getty (29:38): "And it happened enough times. It became a viral TikTok thing..."

Armstrong criticizes Apple’s explanation of the issue, suggesting ulterior motives behind the malfunction.

• Jack Armstrong (31:25): "Please. It's trollery. Some Apple staffer who hates Trump got it in there."

Additionally, they discuss Elon Musk’s concerns about artificial intelligence adopting a "woke" ideology, referencing his remarks on AI’s potential threats.

• Joe Getty (31:55): "Elon said, the problem with that is AI could decide that the only 100% way to certainly to stop misgendering is to kill all humans."

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5. Final Thoughts and Closing Remarks

In their concluding segments, Armstrong and Getty reflect on the day's discussions, reinforcing their viewpoints on the discussed topics. They maintain a critical stance on the current state of education, international politics, and technological advancements, urging listeners to stay informed and vigilant.

• Jack Armstrong (35:13): "We need to adapt our approach. I hope you'll stand up and stop this madness."

The episode wraps up with light-hearted banter and acknowledgments, leaving listeners with thought-provoking statements about the societal issues tackled throughout the show.

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Notable Quotes:

• Jack Armstrong (00:34): "A man and his wife have died. Their bodies were found."
• Joe Getty (02:28): "First of all, we need an Egyptologist to call in. How long does it take for a body to begin the mummification process?"
• Howard Lutnick (22:32): "The thing that concerns me most is China. There's a giant country who hates us, who wants us to not have this way of life..."
• Joe Getty (29:38): "And it happened enough times. It became a viral TikTok thing..."
• Jack Armstrong (31:25): "Please. It's trollery. Some Apple staffer who hates Trump got it in there."
• Joe Getty (31:55): "Elon said, the problem with that is AI could decide that the only 100% way to certainly to stop misgendering is to kill all humans."
• Jack Armstrong (35:13): "We need to adapt our approach. I hope you'll stand up and stop this madness."

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This episode of Armstrong & Getty On Demand offers a blend of investigative discussions and sharp critiques on contemporary issues, encouraging listeners to engage critically with the information presented.

Transcript

[Jack Armstrong]

Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Getty.

[Joe Getty]

We have an exciting update on the death of Gene Hackman. I didn't think there would be anything to this story ever again.

[Jack Armstrong]

Exciting? Exciting, yeah. No. Can we have a second take, please?

[Joe Getty]

What's wrong with the word exciting?

[Jack Armstrong]

A man and his wife have died. Their bodies were found. I disassociate myself. Gene Hacker this. Now our sources are rock solid. The Daily Mail and tmz.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, well, TMZ is pretty solid.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, Daily Mail is pretty good. This definitely has the feel of. It might turn out to be wrong, but. Gene Hackman and his wife were found partially mummified at the couple's mansion with pills strewn in their bathroom. Ms. Arakawa, age 64, found decomposed with bloating on her face, mummification in her hands and feet. Sheriff said Hackman was found to have the same signs of decomposition as his wife. He was in the mud room of their house fully clothed, wearing sunglasses, which is interesting. Two maintenance workers discovered the bodies. Let's see, Wednesday in the afternoon, afternoon, blah, blah, blah. The workers told investigators they had not seen them for two weeks. Both appeared to have been dead for some time. Arakawa discovered lying on the bathroom floor of the couple's homes home with an open prescription bottle of pills scattered across nearby countertop. And let's see. Hackman found dead in a mudroom off the couple's kitchen. The warrant said, they call it an arrest warrant in the Daily Mail, but they do not ever refer to anybody being arrested or being sought. So I don't know how it's an arrest warrant per se case. You have anything more than that? No signs of a gas leak.

[Joe Getty]

That.

[Katie Green]

Okay, that was. That was the last little part of it is that TMZ is calling it a search warrant.

[Joe Getty]

But yeah, here's what I think happened. Better, here's what I think happened. First of all, we need an Egyptologist to call in. How long does it take for a body to begin the mummification process? Once you die and you're just laying there and sit, right. A month or three weeks or a while. I think Gene hackman, who is 95, his wife is 65, they've been married for 30 years. So they got together when he was, you know, he was in his 60s and she was in her 30s, but I think he. What? You made that face, Katie. What was that face?

[Katie Green]

No, I just. What was the. What did you say half. Half your age plus two, plus seven years, plus seven.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're a 30 year old decency ratio.

[Joe Getty]

Yes. 30 year old woman marrying a 60 year old man. Yeah, that's definitely, definitely.

[Katie Green]

That's dad.

[Joe Getty]

But okay, I'm glad you're here to say that.

[Jack Armstrong]

So because he could back to you.

[Joe Getty]

And because she could.

[Jack Armstrong]

Works both ways, right? He married a super famous guy, judgment.

[Joe Getty]

Here, and probably had a really cool life there for quite a while, I think. He comes into the mud room, he's 95 years old, dies somehow, hits his head, has a heart attack. Whatever, they'll figure it out. She can't go on now that he's gone, she downs a bunch of pills and diesel. Now why'd the dog die though? I haven't figured that one out. The dog sees both the owners, thinks I'm never gonna go on a walk again. Well, he sticks his head in the oven.

[Katie Green]

They found pills all over the bathroom floor. So maybe the dog got into the pills because they said the dog was about 10 to 15ft away from his.

[Joe Getty]

Wife back on the floor.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yep, that could be, that's conceivable. Or maybe the dog starved. Although I, I don't know.

[Joe Getty]

Now he would.

[Jack Armstrong]

Generally a starving dog will. Yes, and I was going to try to be a bit more delicate than that, but obviously your filter along with your respiratory tract is sick and not functioning properly. So we'll forgive you. I guess it would be good if you would would say you are on cold medicine. That would be. You denied it earlier. I suggest as your attorney, you retract that and say, oh, I forgot, I took powerful drugs, all of them.

[Joe Getty]

So anyway, that's my theory. The very old hackman dies, she's distraught and depressed and takes a bunch of pills to overdose.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's not impossible, but the man was 95. If you have not processed the fact that your spouse might pass when he's 95, you've got some serious psychological problems.

[Joe Getty]

That reminds me of when B.B. king died at age 99, I think. And then his daughter said there had to be foul play. And that was our, that was our line. Yeah, right. 99 year old, a profoundly obese men don't just drop dead. Something is amiss here.

[Jack Armstrong]

Immensely fat ancient bluesman don't just suddenly pass away.

[Joe Getty]

Right, but. So your point? She. You wouldn't have thought she'd have been too shocked to ever. I mean at 95, you gotta walk into the house practically every day thinking, I wonder if he's still upright.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, You've certainly worked through the. This, you know, the possibility. I've got to admit, I was absolutely certain. Well, not certain. I thought it was highly likely it was some sort of carbon monoxide leak or something like that. The fact that they were in different rooms, different states of, you know, activity. The dog was not with them in the room with the faulty heater or what have you, that there's something very odd that's going on here. No doubt.

[Joe Getty]

Mummification. I wonder how long that takes.

[Jack Armstrong]

Last person who saw him seems to be a couple of weeks ago.

[Katie Green]

Yeah, the Google says that in extremely dry conditions, this mummification process can start within a week.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, really?

[Jack Armstrong]

And they're in New Mexico, right?

[Joe Getty]

Beautiful. Santa Fe.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Lived in one of the very, very cool, artsy, fartsy town. If you've never been in Santa Fe. And he lived in one of those adobe houses. I have a friend who lives in one of those. They're like 400 years old. You're. You're not allowed to. To do anything to them because they're historic relics, but they're very cool to live in. And lots of artists there. And he was really into painting and sculpting, I guess, these last several decades when he wasn't acting.

[Jack Armstrong]

I hope his final years were happy and satisfying. And I hope the end to both he and his. His and his. Way too young to be croaking mysteriously. Wife was not gruesome. Suppose. I suppose the truth will out at some point.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. So. But the.

[Jack Armstrong]

We all.

[Joe Getty]

We woke up too, because we got the alerts overnight. Gene Hackman is dead. Then you look, you know, one sentence below it and it's he and his wife and his dog are dead. And then immediately the police say, no suspicion of foul play. So that sends your mind worrying. Okay, well then, what the heck? And that's how you come up with what, you know, Joe's theory or whatever. But now when you got the mummification thing, how did that.

[Jack Armstrong]

How.

[Joe Getty]

Why did the place.

[Jack Armstrong]

Why is that significant? Just nobody found the body for a.

[Joe Getty]

Week because the body's been sitting around for weeks. How could you immediately jump to no foul play? I don't know how you would do that.

[Jack Armstrong]

No sign of any trauma, but even then, somebody could be choked or. Or something like that, or as asphyxiated. Yeah, I don't know. Well, sometimes the cop shops say things they shouldn't.

[Joe Getty]

Once you're. I mean, many times, if your body's down the road to being a mummy, I don't know, it'd be kind of hard to tell exactly what's going on.

[Jack Armstrong]

I see your point.

[Joe Getty]

You'll probably see pictures by the end of the day from tmz.

[Jack Armstrong]

The old mummy road down the road being a mummy. Any chance we could change topics now before you know, anybody else is offended?

[Joe Getty]

Well, we gotta. We gotta take a break and then we'll get into the.

[Jack Armstrong]

Think about the things we've done. Yes, agreed.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, man. My favorite actor of all time.

[Jack Armstrong]

Gift.

[Joe Getty]

You know what we could do here?

[Jack Armstrong]

Please.

[Joe Getty]

Yes.

[Jack Armstrong]

This is a clip of one of his great performances.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, how about.

[Jack Armstrong]

Maybe it can save the segment.

[Joe Getty]

How about Gene Hackman, my favorite actor of all time in the fabulous movie Hoosiers?

[Jack Armstrong]

There's a condition in tournament play not talk about the next step until you've climbed the one in front of you. I'm sure going to the state finals is beyond your wildest dream, so let's just keep it right there. Forget about the crowds, the size of the school, their fancy uniforms, and remember.

[Joe Getty]

What got you here.

[Jack Armstrong]

Focus on the fundamentals that we've gone over time and time again. And most important, don't get caught up thinking about winning or losing this game. If you put your effort and concentration into playing to your potential to be the best that you can be. I don't care what the scoreboard says at the end of the game. In my book, we're going to be winners. Okay.

[Joe Getty]

All right, let's go, let's go. Let me hear it. God, I wish. I wish I could have listened to that speech before. I did every athletic thing I ever did in high school. Because my mind was always saying, God, you lose to this break wrestling, you lose as this guy, you're a laughingstock. I mean, I can hear the jokes people are going to be making on the ride home if you lose to this.

[Jack Armstrong]

Not the right mindset.

[Joe Getty]

No. Exactly. I needed a pre mummified Gene Hackman giving me that boosting speech.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, my God, I'm out.

[Joe Getty]

We've got more on the way. Stay here.

[Jack Armstrong]

Armstrong and Getty.

[Joe Getty]

Barnard College is the private women's liberal arts college that is part of Columbia University. So they're together in this little thing here, Barnard in Colombia that we're about to talk about. It's all around same issue last year when everything blew up at at Columbia. Pro Hamas protesters getting all crazy and a bunch of students that took over a building. But before we get to that. And the chanting.

[Jack Armstrong]

So anti settler colonialism.

[Joe Getty]

Jack, Columbia had to apologize yesterday because a teacher in the astronomy department was found to have inserted political views within the syllabus for a class session in violation of university policy. Now some people are seeing this as Columbia pushing back that they're starting to get the message a little bit. The fact that they push back at this at all. So in the your astronomy class, number one in the description of the class, not number five or ten or further down the line, but number one, astronomy and Palestine. It says throughout this course we'll be doing some observing of the celestial bodies. It is important to understand the privileges we have to be able to even do astronomy without worrying about being caught in an airstrike as we watch a genocide unfold in Gaza. It's important to tell the story of Palestine. Blah blah blah.

[Jack Armstrong]

That is parody.

[Joe Getty]

Surely it's not. And Columbia officially apologized for that and said that graduate student is no longer teaching that class. How nuts is that?

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow.

[Joe Getty]

Also fitting in with this, a sophomore at Barnard College. That's the women's blah blah blah. As I just said. Took a video. Every single English professor. I looked at this video. Every single English professor at the university has free Palestine and end the genocide stickers on their doors. As this person says, what the hell does English have to do with the Middle East? But they all have end the genocide stickers on their doors where you're sending your kid to learn. You know their get their English 101 at cost of $90,000 a year or something insane like that.

[Jack Armstrong]

Tear down the university system. Rebuild it. It'll take a year. You're going to be a freshman next year. Go get a job at Chili's. Make some money. You'll be better off anyway. We'll restart colleges next year.

[Joe Getty]

Protesters took over in a building. An employee was. Was assaulted. Classes were disrupted and or canceled depending on what part of the campus you were on yesterday. So you paid 90 grand to go to the college and your kid couldn't go to class because these pro Hamas protesters took over the building. The dean had to ask to go to the bathroom. I should have grabbed that audio because I saw that where he said would it be okay if I went to the bathroom? You're allowed to go to the bathroom. You're the freaking dean asking these people if you can go to the bathroom.

[Jack Armstrong]

How symbolic is that?

[Joe Getty]

No kidding. And the administration admitted they don't know if everyone involved in the sit in taking over the building is even a member of the college. Negotiate. And they're. They, they, they said they would not leave. And the negotiating was going on. And I watched some of this Barnard faculty, serving as a spokesman, assured the radical Columbia students that the NYPD would not be called at least before 10:30 while they tried to work out their. What do you call it in a negotiation.

[Jack Armstrong]

Your.

[Joe Getty]

Your terms. Why you didn't have any terms at all. Leave or you're expelled. There's my term.

[Jack Armstrong]

And arrested.

[Joe Getty]

But whatever terms they worked out, the students did leave at 10:30 before the Columbia said they were going to call the ny, the New York Police Department. And then they gathered off campus and started their chanting. And this is what it sounded like. Intifada, revolution, etc. Etc. These people are lunatics. Dangerous lunatics that I don't know if they follow the recent news of what Hamas is doing with the strangling the babies and then parading them around and mocking Israel and vowing more October 7th. But there you go. There you go. That's who some of these enlightened college students are on the side of.

[Jack Armstrong]

Do we have the other audio that was in our. Our text string? Maybe we can grab that. That's what I've been touting all day long. That is some of my favorite chanting of all time. Yeah, yeah, okay. A bit of a miscommunication there. We will get that hilariously ironic chanting.

[Joe Getty]

So the what we Learned shortly after October 7th seems to still be the case. The reason the dean is willing to make himself subservient to these people is he agrees with them. Or she. I don't know if it's a he or she.

[Jack Armstrong]

And to whatever extent they don't agree or aren't comfortable enforcing their disagreement, that is their, their customer base. They're getting tons, tons of money to give these poor dopes practically zero education. So you don't want to upset that apple cart.

[Joe Getty]

How about that astronomy thing? We should consider ourselves privileged to be able to even concern ourselves with astronomy while there are airstrikes going on. I mean, what the hell?

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, you've got the University of California system saying that principles of equity and. And activism should be in every single class. And this guy or gal just took it seriously, said, okay, astronomy. Let me think. Yeah, yeah. Palestinians like to look up at the sky at Mars. Yeah. So we'll talk about Palestine, you know, the Palestinians and gods. It's just, I know it sounds crazy to say we've got to completely tear our university system down to the studs because there's not like one entity in charge of it. So I don't even know what that would look like, but it's perhaps diseased beyond redemption.

[Joe Getty]

Well, you combine the things that they teach our kids with the cost. And I mean, it's just. I don't know how you justify sending your kid to one of these places unless you agree with that ideology.

[Jack Armstrong]

And it's such a waste of taxpayer money to artificially subsidize all of this stuff to keep the prices as high as possible. So the campus folks will always, always, always vote Democrat. Yeah, it's just. It's. It's awful. So we let it happen. I blame myself.

[Joe Getty]

So we got some good stuff out of Joe's favorite new guy, Lutnick, coming up.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, Howard Lutnick is Secretary of Commerce. He was talking about China. Really persuasive stuff. And with all of our domestic policy yelling at each other, Elon Musk, etcetera, Nobody's paying attention to what China's doing right now. They are making aggressive moves all over the place. Hope you can stay tuned. That and more Armstrong and Gettysburg. Mistakes happen. The important thing is to learn from those unforgivable, punishable mistakes that will permanently be in permanent files and move on. So now we have the chanting that we actually wanted from the nut job Columbia Barnard students. Dig this, if you will. 82 this, the whole enchilada. It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to fight for our freedom.

[Katie Green]

It is our duty to win.

[Jack Armstrong]

It is our duty to win. We must love and support one another. We must love and support one another. We have nothing to lose but our chains. We have nothing to lose but our chains. Now this one is loud. Awesome. It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. It is our duty to win. We must love and support one another. We must love and support one another. We have nothing to lose but our chains. We have nothing to lose but our chains. We have nothing to lose but our chains. We have nothing to change. So these are a bunch of wealthy, privileged.

[Joe Getty]

Wealthy, privileged. I mean, you're among the most privileged young people on planet Earth that have practically lived. That's correct.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yes.

[Joe Getty]

And you're chanting, we have nothing to lose but our chains.

[Jack Armstrong]

Did they mean, like their Taylor Swift friendship bracelets or their gold chains around their necks? Or I'm confused. Chanting like they're Jake Guevara, a bunch of privileged Northeastern college students cosplaying that they're brave revolutionaries? What could be more absurd?

[Joe Getty]

Or that they're put upon in any way and they need to break free from lose something.

[Jack Armstrong]

Chains of capitalism, probably. And White supremacy, the patriarchy, settler colonialism. Oh, man. Poor kids. They didn't raise themselves. They didn't teach themselves.

[Joe Getty]

No. They didn't raise their kid theirselves. I was about to say, like, if my kid. But my kid wouldn't end up with that point of view. I mean, you'd have to grow up in a household where people talked that way. I guess. I mean, if my.

[Jack Armstrong]

Some kids get swept up in the whole college thing and they completely abandon their families.

[Joe Getty]

That's true.

[Jack Armstrong]

I have heard that it happens a lot.

[Joe Getty]

Well. And you come home spouting that crap. Okay. I know it. I'll release you from your chains. You're released. Go take on the world on your own now. Cause I'm not writing any more checks. Go take on the world. You're. You're freed from the chains of me paying for stuff. Go knock it out of the park. I wish you.

[Jack Armstrong]

Sorry about those chains. My bad.

[Joe Getty]

Where did I get off putting the chains of sending you to one of the most expensive colleges in the world?

[Jack Armstrong]

That is just astounding. I know it. Is that a linguini armed feller or. I realize the to assign gender is, you know, completely out of the question among the very chanting nut jobs we're talking about, but is that a linguine armed fella or probably a big, beefy, angry gal?

[Joe Getty]

I'm not sure why the size of his bi and or triceps matters either.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, and I suspect it's the aforementioned angry revolutionary woman who has no idea what to do with her life and has been trained to be angry and unhappy.

[Joe Getty]

As a chick, Katie.

[Katie Green]

Yeah, as a chick. I'll say it sounds like a beefy. A beefy girl.

[Jack Armstrong]

But.

[Joe Getty]

Well, just the. The chanting at the beginning was so weird and cult like just that.

[Katie Green]

Well, and they're all standing in a circle holding hands.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

And the childlike voices struck me too, how they were hardly more than children who had been trained to chant. In the matter of the Red Guard or Hitler Youth or whatever radical, you know, movement through history you want to cite. I picture the children chanting, and that's what I heard.

[Joe Getty]

We have nothing to lose but our chains.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, and they are Marxists. I mean, a lot of them are Maoists, so the comparison is not a stretch at all.

[Joe Getty]

Wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

Speaking of China.

[Joe Getty]

Wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

I know, I know what? Wow. Wow. Wow. We've gotten off track. Anyway, speaking of China. Thought this was interesting. Howard Lutnick, the new Secretary of Commerce. Great interview with Bret Baer last night on Special Report. And some of the Stuff we played last hour about how he sees all sorts of opportunities to economize. You know, combine the census with the postal service and send out census forms to your house. When a baby is born, the government knows a baby is born. Why do you have to go to a census office or go through all sorts of, you know, hoops and ladders to get the forms? Anyway, but the last question I think it was, that Brett asked him was, what are you worried about? And I thought his answer was, was, terrific. 49.

[Howard Lutnick]

The thing that concerns me most is China. There's a giant country who hates us, who wants us to not have this way of life, and the rest of the world, not so much. So the issue is, how do you make sure that they don't run like Huawei? And you say, well, why do I care about that? Well, if they get in the phone system, they'll turn it off. You know, these kind of things. We've got to protect ourselves, and we've got to protect our allies who get weak, who want to buy it cheap. Right. They dump cars. Think about it. We have. We won't let a Chinese car come here. Right. Europe let them come. They started selling a car that cost €30,000 for 17,000. Cost was 30. And what Volkswagen started saying, we're going to start closing plants. They're trying to crush us, and we need to pay attention. And thank God we have Donald Trump in the White House because he's paying attention. He's going to bring the pharmaceuticals back, the semiconductors back. We have to protect ourselves and be powerful as a country. We are the greatest country on Earth. We will not cut one penny from someone who deserves Social Security, someone who deserves Medicare. But let me tell you, all that crap of waste and fraud and abuse, that's out of here. We're going to balance this budget, we're going to drive interest rates down, and we're going to make the greatest America great again.

[Jack Armstrong]

Love it. That's the Secretary of Commerce, who's a China hawk. Couldn't love it more.

[Joe Getty]

No, man. That's some troubling stuff, though.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, yeah? Yeah. Do you see the story where Taiwan's coast guard detained a cargo ship with a Chinese crew? They're cutting undersea Internet cables.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Trying to cut Taiwan's communication. Then the Wall Street Journal was reporting the other day, China and Russia are expanding cooperation from Alaska to Taiwan in joint military drills. Extremely belligerent military drills all over the map. That's beautiful. And then I had one more China story.

[Joe Getty]

Boy, that. That Drop in. And I, I've not driven a Chinese electric car, but I guess they're pretty impressive. I don't know if you saw that article the other day about how some, you know, they steal everything they have. They've got some Chinese electric car that looks exactly like Mercedes Benz or a Porsche model or whatever, looks just like them. Operates really, really well. Much, much. They sell in China and those have become really sought after vehicles and it's going to be hard to compete with.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't know if that. Well, that's, yeah, that's the point. And I don't know that particular vehicle if it's another example of predatory dumping. But the idea is you subsidize your car industry to the point that you can sell, well, 30,000 Euro worth of quality for 17 until you drive all your competitors out of business. Then you start charging the legit price and that's what tariffs exist to prevent. And I hope Trump uses those judicial. But, oh, the other thing I want to mention about China is that it was again the Wall Street Journal reporting that Chinese money brokers with the absolute approval of the government are now the money launderers of the drug cartels. Well, you know, just the Mexican cartels, which are into a hell of a lot more than drugs. So the unholy cartels now have joined in the axis of a holes with China and Russia in Iran and North Korea. Great. And they're not only across the southern border, they're operating in the U.S. every American and actually pretty good percentage of Americans are aware of this. But every American ought to be aware of how aggressively China is attacking us in every way they can think of right now. I'm glad the Trump administration is wide awake to that reality.

[Joe Getty]

No kidding. And then, you know, to get back to how we started the segment, the fact that we have some of our best and brightest chanting that the only thing they have to lose are their chains and crying themselves to sleep at night because they're so oppressed and their country is so awful.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right.

[Joe Getty]

That is, that is not good.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. Think of the, the mental gymnastics, the emotional gymnastics you would have to do to end up thinking you're oppressed and you have nothing to lose but your chains.

[Joe Getty]

But they're the China's best and brightest. They're being, you know, bathed their entire lives in patriotism for their country as opposed to our kids being bathed their entire elite lives. And you should, you gotta hate this country. We're really the source of all evil. I mean, the world would be so much Better off if we didn't exist.

[Jack Armstrong]

In small parts through TikTok and platforms like that that are sponsored by the communist Chinese, but in large part by our own elite educational infrastructure. I can't believe we're putting up with it. I'm not sure exactly what to do about it other than what we're doing here trying to raise awareness of it. But my God, we. We have a disease in this country. A serious, perhaps fatal disease named our educational system.

[Joe Getty]

Could anything be more annoying than some 20 year old been pampered their entire lives? Rich kid walking around thinking they're living in chains. I mean, that's so annoying, I can't hardly stand it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, only if they would run around with their face covered by a terrorist scarf saying that the only democracy in the Middle east should be wiped off the map by Islamic supremacists. That would be hard to take too.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, man. Into something. We will finish strong next.

[Jack Armstrong]

Armstrong and Getty.

[Joe Getty]

You numb nuts. We have nothing to lose. Our chains. Good lord. Ah, that might be the most in a. The.

[Jack Armstrong]

The.

[Joe Getty]

The. The Top. Not understanding your own place in the world I've ever heard in my life.

[Jack Armstrong]

I was gonna say it's the grand champion of unself awareness. Yes.

[Joe Getty]

You live.

[Jack Armstrong]

Elon Musk. Respond with chainsaw.

[Joe Getty]

Speaking of Elon Musk and AI, so this because I don't know if this happened to any of you, but if you downloaded the new Apple operating system for your phone and you're doing any of the voiced voice texting stuff, people started to notice that if you use the word racist. I don't say the word racist that much when I'm sending messages to people. But if you said the word racist, it would come out as Trump for some reason. It would then correct itself to the word racist. But it would first say Trump. If you said the word racist in.

[Jack Armstrong]

Your voice texting on Apple, obvious what's going on there.

[Joe Getty]

And it happened. Yeah, and it happened enough times. It became a viral tick tock thing and people were wondering what the hell is going on there. Well, as CNN reported yesterday, Apple had an explanation.

[CNN Reporter]

The company is saying essentially that the AI system behind its voice to text feature can occasionally type an incorrect word with phonetic overlap. Essentially a word that sounds similar to what a user was trying to say before quickly correcting, which is what we see happened here. A user would say racist. The thing would type Trump and then quickly correct to racist. But you know, I think users can decide how much phonetic overlap they think there is between the words racist and Trump. Apple says this was a glitch and it's working on a fix.

[Joe Getty]

Why did CNN not have the guts to say? Why didn't CNN have the guts to say? Obviously there's no phonetic overlap between the words racist and Trump. As opposed to saying viewers can determine for themselves how much overlap they think there is phonetically between the word racist and Trump.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. The question before us isn't is this a beautiful painting? Which is obviously an opinion question. Phonetic overlap is not an opinion question. It's not even close. So simultaneously, Apple fan of and CNN contemptuous of just utterly be clowning themselves. Don't. Do you people not have any shame? Or do you think we're all so stupid that we buy your your sunshiny little explanation? Please. It's trollery. Some Apple staffer who hates Trump got it in there. It's decent trollery. I mean, you're an a hole, but you know, somehow they got it in there. It's semi clever, but that's clearly what happened.

[Joe Getty]

Elon Musk commented on this story yesterday, saying this is what I mean by the woke mind virus and the more I learned, the more insidious and deadly it appears. And he's really concerned about AI being so woke. And he said it's tough to remove because there's so much woke con content on the Internet. And he used this example, which I remember when other AIs were asked whether global thermonuclear war or mis gendering was worse every eye AI but Grok said misgendering is worse than thermonuclear war.

[Jack Armstrong]

Great Scott.

[Joe Getty]

Elon said, the problem with that is AI could decide that the only 100% way to certainly to stop misgendering is to kill all humans. That seems a little extreme, but just.

[Jack Armstrong]

In case Xi Jinping is listening. Chairman Xi. Yes, it's true. Call me a girl before you drop a nuclear bomb on my head, because that's way, way worse. Clearly, AI is right.

[Joe Getty]

Viewers can decide for themselves how much phonetic overlap they believe there is between the two words.

[Jack Armstrong]

What? Why are you treating great grape Rip Rick Trump racist? You see? Seriously, Apple, come on. I mean are a bunch of dumbasses, but Apple, come on.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Tim Cook should have come out yesterday and said somebody did this was either a prank or they have an ideology that they shouldn't be bringing to work. And I will get to the bottom this. They should have just been upfront about it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. What? Who made that decision there? Send Jenny out there and she'll claim it was Phonetic overlap of two words that are completely unlike each other. And the stupid morons will lap it up. Wow.

[Joe Getty]

They ain't got much to give you. They gonna give me what they got most. Y'all bend over. It's time for Final Thoughts.

[Jack Armstrong]

That was unnecessarily suggestive, but thank you, blues Guy.

[Joe Getty]

Bend over. Where'd the bend over come from? Here's your host for Final Thoughts, Joe Getty.

[Jack Armstrong]

Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew to wrap things up for the day. Michelangelo is off in his place, bravely manning the control room. Executive producer Mike Hansen. Hansen. Final thought.

[Joe Getty]

Broadcast excellence on display during the fourth hour of the Armstrong and Getty On Demand podcast. Please check it out. Thank you.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay. Fantastic. Katie Green, our esteemed news woman, has a final thought. Katie?

[Katie Green]

Well, you guys mentioned Grock, the AI system, and I made an image yesterday of Gavin Newsom's head on a pile of poop and called it Gavin and Pome and was mocked by you guys. People on Twitter are loving it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Katie for the win. Jack, final thought.

[Joe Getty]

I'm just curious since I haven't messed around with Grok or any other AI. Like, how long did that take you?

[Katie Green]

Like 10 seconds?

[Joe Getty]

Five seconds?

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Wow. And it just does it for you. I gotta spend more time with AI.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. Yeah. You're gonna have a lot of heads, different heads sitting on piles of poop when I'm done with it.

[Joe Getty]

Armstrong, you get he wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.

[Jack Armstrong]

So many people to thank, so little time. Go to armstrong. Getty.com got some great hot links. Pick up span G swag. Nice T shirt or sweatshirt for your favorite. A G fan. Maybe that's you. Travislinemailbagarmstrong.com the link to the podcast is also there.

[Joe Getty]

Cool. So we'll update you on all the stories that are rolling tomorrow. We'll see you then. God bless America. Armstrong and Getty, it's over.

[Jack Armstrong]

We need to adapt our approach. I hope you'll stand up and stop this madness. You're kind of damned if you do and damned if you don't.

[Joe Getty]

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Are you me?

[Joe Getty]

My point was made.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'll see y'all soon.

[Joe Getty]

There's a hole in the sky Where a tree once stood. Somebody's making money.

[Jack Armstrong]

On your feet, sir. Your time is expired.

[Joe Getty]

Thank you all very much.

[Jack Armstrong]

Armstrong and Gettysburg.