It's Good To Have A Hobby!

Summary

Armstrong & Getty On Demand — "It's Good To Have A Hobby!"

Date: March 31, 2026
Hosts: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty
Podcast: iHeartPodcasts

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Episode Overview

This episode tackles a range of hot-button topics with Armstrong & Getty’s trademark mix of irreverence, skepticism, and pointed commentary. Key themes include the uncertain outcome of U.S. military actions in Iran, the evolving nature of modern warfare (with a focus on drone and AI technology), cultural snobbery toward blue-collar work (with a humorous but pointed critique of Jimmy Kimmel's plumber joke), and the salacious news surrounding South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem’s husband. The episode’s tone swings between serious geopolitical analysis, cultural critique, and playful banter.

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Main Discussion Points & Insights

1. U.S.-Iran Military Escalation: The Uncertain Road Ahead

• Deconstruction of “Victory” Narratives

  • The hosts caution against the rush to claim clear wins or losses in emerging conflicts.
    • “Anybody who's proclaiming this a clear victory or a clear loss, at this point you're just cheerleading for one side or the other because it's too early to tell.” (B, 00:53)
  • They emphasize the complex calculus of major military decisions, highlighting Trump’s risky actions in the Middle East.
    • “…my belief is that Trump did something he and many people believe to be incredibly important, big and somewhat dangerous, because you're never sure how these things are going to go.” (A, 01:17)

• The Dangers & Unpredictability of Intervention

  • Hosts discuss “Pandora’s box” scenarios: potential wider conflicts involving China, Russia, or catastrophic responses from Iran.
    • “Is it possible that Pandora's box, having been opened, will unleash demons we can't deal with...?” (A, 02:29)

• Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Remarks

  • He’s quoted highlighting American military successes and need for allied participation.
    • “President Trump doesn't bluff and he does not back down… the United States War Department will continue with even more intensity.” (C quoting Hegseth, 03:21–03:55)
    • Calls out European allies: “Last time I checked, there was supposed to be a big, bad Royal Navy…” (C, 05:03)
  • The hosts mockingly comment on British military capability.
    • “The big bad Royal Navy, which at this point is a rainbow flag flying. Useless.” (A, 05:43)
  • No clear timetable for military action—deliberately ambiguous, to prevent media criticism and adversary planning.
    • “Announcing a timetable in warfare… just an excuse for the media to say you missed your timetable or to have your adversary prepare in a certain way.” (A, 07:08)

2. The Rapid Evolution of Modern Warfare

• Drones & AI: Changing the Battlefield
  • Discussion of Pentagon considering anti-drone lasers in DC due to increased drone sightings.
    • “Debating whether to deploy lasers… after recent reports of unusual drone activity.” (B, 07:19)
  • Ukraine’s prominence in developing and exporting drone/anti-drone tech to Gulf states.
    • “The Gulf states… just signed a 10 billion plus dollar deal with Ukraine for Ukraine to export their drone and anti drone technology.” (A, 08:34)
  • 60 Minutes report: both Ukraine and Russia close to deploying AI-controlled swarm drones, which would be a paradigm shift.
    • “It's just a matter of time. Like both sides… are close to having the ability to have AI command drone swarms.” (B, 09:24)
    • “As soon as that happens, we're definitely into a different world.” (B, 09:24)
  • Need for better language: “drones” is too broad.
    • “We need a better term than drones because it's too all encompassing… It's practically like saying the word weapon.” (B, 10:29)

3. Culture & Class: The Plumbing Controversy

• Jimmy Kimmel Mocks Markwayne Mullen, New DHS Secretary
  • Kimmel jokes about Mullen’s background, prompting Armstrong & Getty to fiercely defend blue-collar professions.
    • Kimmel: “That's right. We have a plumber protecting us from terrorism. Now, it worked for Super Mario. Why not Markwayne?” (B quoting Kimmel, 13:23)
    • “Markwayne Mullen took over his family plumbing business… turned it into a business from I think it was three employees to 200 or 300… Yeah, he's an idiot. Jimmy, you're way smarter.” (A, 13:56)
  • Broader critique of elite snobbery toward trades:
    • “Your bachelor's degree in something or other that nobody's ever heard of and you've done nothing with would be better somehow. Where does that come from?” (B, 14:35)
    • “The contempt for regular jobs and the adoration of getting a degree and not even having a job… as a cultural attitude, it's really bad for the country.” (B, 15:12)

4. Kristi Noem’s Husband: Scandal and “Having a Hobby”

• Leaked Photos & Private Kinks
  • Breaks down the bizarre news about Brian Noem’s “bimbofication” fetish and cross-dressing photos leaking online.
    • “Brian Gnome chatted up women from the so called bimbofication fetish scene… claiming he coveted huge, huge, ridiculous boobs… balloons in his shirt to mimic comically oversized lopsided breasts, complete with fake protruding nipples and his hot tight little pink boy shorts.” (A, 18:23)
    • “These pictures are unbelievable. We're looking at the pictures, they're incredible.” (B, 19:13)
  • The hosts blend shock, humor, and mock empathy:
    • “It's good to have a hobby, you know, relieve the stress of the day.” (A, 25:09)
    • “You birdwatch. He stuffs giant balloons in a crop top, puts on tiny little shorts and makes kissy faces for women online…” (B, 25:20)
  • Cultural reflection on secrets, kinks, and marriage.
    • “You never have any idea what's going on in somebody else's marriage… any conclusions you draw about who's right, wrong, good, bad… You have no idea.” (B, 20:11)
    • “Thank God. My life's so simple. Oh, my God.” (B, 27:32)

5. No Kings Protests: Size vs. Substance

• Massive, Yet Murky Demonstrations
  • Acknowledge the size (millions claimed by organizers), while noting the lack of a cohesive message.
    • “The biggest drawback to them… there wasn't a clear message. It was like a whole bunch of different causes…” (B, 29:17)
  • Jeff Blair (National Review) quoted for his scathing, witty analysis of the protestor demographics and the performative nature of the rallies.
    • “These people were overwhelmingly old, white, deeply elite progressives, and vastly fewer in number this second time around.” (A quoting Blair, 31:10)
    • “It is intensely boomer coded and is now done with grim duty to the commands of political organizers…” (A, 31:32)
  • The hosts see it more as group therapy than meaningful action.
    • “…let's all get together and think the same thing and feel good, bad group therapy.” (A, 32:11)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Predicting Outcomes in War:

  • “The number of important things done in history that were no brainers, that clearly would go well from beginning to end are… you could count them on the thumbs of one hand.” (A, 01:17)

• On Elite Snobbery Toward Trades:

  • “The contempt for regular jobs and the adoration of getting a degree and not even having a job… it's weird how not even having a job is held up above a lot of jobs.” (B, 14:52)

• On Fetish Exposure:

  • “Glad the dog never saw this.” (A, 24:07)

• On Protest Demographics:

  • “I haven't seen so many senior citizens and embarrassingly tight fitting union T shirts… since I attended the DNC in 2024.” (A quoting Blair, 31:12)

• On Personal Simplicity:

  • “Seriously, the modern world is too much. Retreat to nature with me to Uncle Joe's holiday camp for those worn out by the modern world.” (A, 34:13)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

| Time | Content | |-------|-----------------------------------------------------| | 00:28 | U.S.-Iran situation, "cheerleading" media narratives| | 03:06 | Secretary Pete Hegseth's perspective | | 06:05 | U.S. adversaries: Russia & China | | 07:19 | Pentagon considers anti-drone lasers in DC | | 08:34 | Gulf states & Ukraine drone deal | | 09:24 | AI drone swarms: new rules of warfare | | 12:51 | Jimmy Kimmel mocks plumber DHS Secretary | | 13:56 | Defense of blue-collar work | | 17:18 | Kristi Noem’s husband “bimbofication” scandal | | 25:09 | “It’s good to have a hobby” – reframing the scandal | | 29:17 | No Kings protests: turnout vs. unclear message | | 31:10 | Jeff Blair's critique on protest demographics | | 32:11 | Therapy vs. advocacy in modern protest | | 34:13 | “Retreat to nature…”; closing banter |

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Tone, Language, and Flow

Armstrong & Getty remain unsparing with sarcasm, quick to mock partisanship, and eager to highlight both the absurdity of modern headlines and the hypocrisies of political culture. Their defense of working-class professions is earnest but sarcastically delivered. Scandal segments are handled with gallows humor but also reflections on privacy and society’s shifting tolerance for personal quirks.

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Summary for the Uninitiated

This episode is a rollercoaster of current affairs, from analyzing the fog of war in Iran to riffing on drone warfare’s future, lampooning cultural elitism, and dissecting internet sex scandals involving political figures—all framed with the blend of skepticism, irreverence, and everyman perspective that defines Armstrong & Getty. It’s as much about making sense of the news as mocking it, always returning to the core message: the world is complicated, weird, and often best handled with a mix of hardheaded realism and humor.

Transcript

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This is an iHeart podcast, guaranteed human broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln radio

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studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center,

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Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Getty.

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On the battlefield. Because of the latitude the President has given us, American firepower is only increasing. Iran's decreasing. We have more and more options and they have less. Just one month. In only one month, we set the terms. The upcoming days will be decisive. Iran knows that, and there's almost nothing they can militarily do about it.

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We were quoting a guy writing in the Wall Street Journal earlier today about how anybody who's proclaiming this, you know, a clear victory or a clear loss, at this point you're just cheerleading for one side or the other because it's too early to tell. But there's plenty of positive stuff you could point out, like SecDeaf Pete is doing there.

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And the number of important things done in history that were no brainers, that clearly would go well from beginning to end are, you could count them on the thumbs of one hand. So I would describe it at this point and I appreciated his piece saying this pretended certainty that's so fashionable now, it's so annoying. My belief is that Trump did something he and many people believe to be incredibly important, big and somewhat dangerous, because you're never sure how these things are going to go. But the danger was worth it because our options were getting narrower and narrower. Dealing with an evil regime hell bent on getting nuclear weapons and in the interim exporting jihadism and death and hatred all across the region and the world when they can.

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I'd been arguing this for going back a year or longer, that after October 7th and Israel decimated their anti aircraft stuff and then we hit him again, blah, blah, blah, all these different things, they were never going to be weaker than this, ever, right? So now or never. And they went with now.

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Is it possible that Pandora's box, having been opened, will unleash demons we can't deal with and we'll look back on this and say, oh my gosh, I wish we'd known. Yeah, absolutely.

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China takes Taiwan, Russia moves on another country and there's just not enough anybody left to try to stop them, etc. Etc.

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Right? Or the mullahs decide they're gonna go full Armageddon and just, you know, I don't know, send all sorts of missiles into Paris.

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I don't know.

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Yeah, of course it's possible. That's the way history unfolds. But I still got my fingers crossed I'm still hoping for good outcomes. Secretary Pete was bringing it this morning as we speak. These words, let's roll on.

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The latest intel is clear out of centcom. Our strikes are damaging the morale of the Iranian military, leading to widespread desertions, key personnel shortages, and causing frustrations amongst senior leaders.

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Fair enough. What else?

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If Iran is wise, they will cut a deal. President Trump doesn't bluff and he does not back down. You can ask Khomeini about that. The new Iranian regime should know that by now. This new regime, because regime change has occurred, should be wiser than the last. President Trump will make a deal. He is willing and the terms of the deal are known to them. If Iran is not willing, then the United States War Department will continue with even more intensity.

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The narrative that some people still push, that the Trump administration didn't even consider the closing of the straight A Hormuz and had no plan for it, is just dumb. Even if Trump hadn't thought about it, even though you can go back to tapes of him from decades ago, he had thought about it. But even if Trump hadn't thought about. The Pentagon has been planning for this forever. So it's just there's not a chance that they didn't have meetings where he's a said, well, the first thing Iran's going to do is try to close the Strait of Hormuz, and this is how we're going to combat that. So that is just a dumb narrative. Trump very well may have thought, and I can't blame him for thinking this, that after we hit him as hard as we did there in that first couple of days, that they would be, you know, who was left alive, was going to make some sort of deal. I think he's probably surprised by that.

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That they calculation. Yeah.

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That they didn't. It still is not an argument that it was not a good idea to do it. All right.

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There's so many negatives there, I lost

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myself in my mind. It's still a positive that we did it. Right.

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Okay. Secretary Pete meanwhile, calling out the lazy fat Euros, among others.

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There are countries around the world who ought be prepared to step up on this critical waterway as well. It's not just the United States Navy. Last time I checked, there was supposed to be a big, bad Royal Navy that could be prepared to do things like that as well. He's pointing out this is an international waterway that we use less than most, in fact, dramatically less than most. So the world ought pay attention to be prepared to stand up. President Trump's been willing to do the heavy lifting on behalf of the free world to address this threat of Iran. It's not just our problem. Set. Going forward, even though we have done the lion's share of preparation to ensure that that strait will be. Will be open, which is an outcome the President's been very clear on.

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That was really a bit of a shot at our old buddies, the Brits there, the big bad Royal Navy, which at this point is a rainbow flag flying. Useless. I'm not sure they could stop illegal fishing on the Thames at this point. Anyway. How about our. Enough with our useless friends. How about our nasty adversaries, Russia and China?

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We know exactly what they're doing, what they are or are not doing. We don't have to air publicly what all of that is, but where necessary, we're addressing it, we're mitigating it and. Or we're confronting it head on. I don't know if you have anything

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you want to add? No, sir, I think.

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And then finally, how long is this all going to last? Because the markets are a little shaky and the gas a little expensive and shipping has gotten crazy and I'm hearing whispers of a global depression.

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Not a question I'm going to answer or. The President has said definitively we have our own goals and guidance and things were military objectives that we're moving toward and things that we look at and as he's articulated, you know, he said four to six weeks, six to eight weeks, three. It could be any, any particular number. But we would never reveal precisely what it is because our goal is to finish those objectives and we're well on our way. And the Chairman and I look at this every single day. It will be the President's determination and the President's determination alone when those objectives are complete and when it serves the interest of the American people to cut that deal.

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And to me it's a silly and artificial question. What's the timetable? Announcing a timetable in warfare. Isn't that just an excuse for the media to say you missed your timetable

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or to have your adversary prepare in a certain way? Here's some breaking news around Pete Hegseth Pentagon ways using anti drone lasers in Washington airspace. Sighting of drones around Fort McNair, the Army base where Defense Secretary Pete Exef and Secretary of State Marco Rubio live has prompted consideration of deploying a new technology, a laser system to protect the homes of our Secretary of War and Secretary of State. They've been debating whether to deploy lasers there after recent reports of unusual drone activity. That's interesting. I mentioned the 60 Minutes piece, their second story on Sunday night, all about drones and how the face of warfare is completely changed in the last couple years and it's changing on a week by week basis. And then when you get to the whole, you know, sending in lots of drones at a time, swarms of drones, this is all new stuff. And the ability to defend against it is all new stuff. So that's something. I wonder why it's in the New York Times.

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Fans of geopolitics, I found this super interesting and you might too. I remember back when the Gulf states like the Saudis were a little wobbly and sometimes they'd make friendly with the Soviets or the Russians. They just signed the Gulf states, three of them. I think it was just signed a 10 billion plus dollar deal with Ukraine for Ukraine to export their drone and anti drone technology and teach all the Gulf states how to use it to help them defend. Because everybody knows at this point the state of the art of drone warfare is Ukraine and Russia to some extent. But so the Saudi, well, the Gulf states are now squarely buddies with Ukraine and money and technology and help is going to be flowing in both directions. I wonder what that's going to look like going forward.

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Yeah. And then in case you didn't hear me say yesterday or didn't watch 60 Minutes, their expert on there said it's just a matter of time. Like both sides, Ukraine and Russia are close to having the ability to have AI command drone swarms. Currently you can't have swarms of drones because individual, an individual can't run them all at the same time or you can't get a bunch of individuals to run them without them running into each other or whatever. But AI technology could do that. And as soon as that happens, we're definitely into a different world. And you Ukraine said they're not planning to do it, but they think Russia will as soon as they can. And, and everybody's close and I think as soon as Russia does it, then Ukraine will have to, and then that might be the warfare for the next who knows, however many years.

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And then given, you know, depending on the range of the drone swarm, all you have to do is for instance, get a boat off the coast of, you know, New York some looks like a pleasure boat, a yacht, a fishing boat, whatever, unleash your drone swarm and it's on.

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Also, as we've been talking about for a couple of years now, we need a better term than drones because it's too all encompassing. It's practically like saying the Word weapon because it's so misleading. So they, they Featured drones on 60 Minutes that were in the water. They're big boats and they're drone boats that you could send at big Russian ships and they've sunk many Russian ships with these little boats. And then you've got land drones that have wheels and drive across and they're using those really cool. Sending this card out onto the battlefield. That hellscape that is that 10 mile wide kill zone they call it, where the drones are hunting everybody down. They send a cart out there and put their wounded in there and the cart comes back and brings them back to the hospital.

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Yeah, yeah. Unmanned vehicles, you got to call them unmanned UAVs, aerial or you know, ocean going or whatever they are. I don't know.

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Unmanned boats, unmanned ground stuff. And then you got the stuff flying through the air. And then when you hear about that, is it the tiny little one that's coming after me or is it this thing, this thing the size of a giant plane, which are you talking about there?

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Right? An unmanned fighter plane or something I can get for 400 bucks at Target.

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Yeah, that's. So we got lasers maybe that can shoot those drones down. And for some reason we decided we needed to announce that in the New York Times. Maybe let people know, I don't know.

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Coming up, the no Kings protests may have been the all time coverage to significance champion of anything that's ever happened.

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I got some pushback against that. I will be interested in hearing how they push back, if you will, how they meet up. Also, we didn't talk about this last week. We should Jimmy Kimmel taking a shot at plumbers because Senator Mark Wayne Mullen ran a plumbing company is now our DHS secretary. Disparaging that is. No, a plumber can't do anything. It's just outrageous, really. And we'll get to that later this hour too. So stick around.

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Armstrong and Getty.

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Eric Clapton just announced a new Crossroads Music Festival thing that he's going to do in Austin, Texas with some of the greatest guitar players in the world. So if you want to hear some really tasty blues licks and lectures about the evils of vaccines. Oh, get your tickets now.

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Can't anybody just do one thing?

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Oh my God. So I actually haven't heard this. I've only read people's complaints about it. So we're about to hear it. So last week Jimmy Kimmel, who has a late night talk show, I guess was making cracks about the fact that Senator, former Senator Mark Wayne Mullen is now the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and comes from a plumbing background, which I guess is mockable in Jimmy Kimmel's world. Here's what it sounded like.

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Don't worry, Trump's got a whole new

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generation of thinkers lined up, including his newly confirmed Secretary of Homeland Security, Mark Wayne. Chuck, Mike Bruce, Dave Mullen. Maybe Mellon's better. He is the now former senator of Oklahoma. Before he was elected to the Senate, Mark Wayne Mullen was a low level MMA fighter and a plumber. That's right. We have a plumber protecting us from terrorism. Now it worked for Super Mario. Why not Mark Wayne? But honestly, I mean, yeah.

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Mark Wayne Mullen took over his family plumbing business when his dad was sick and turned it into a business from I think it was three employees, something like that, to 200 or 300 managing changes in technology, personnel, you know, regulation growth, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, he's an idiot. Jimmy, you're way smarter.

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Well, this is the backlash that it received from certain quarters. Even if Mark Wayne Mullen was just a regular plumber who I think on average they make like $200,000 a year.

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What?

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Your bachelor's degree in something or other that nobody's ever heard of and you've done nothing with would be better somehow. Where does that come from?

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Well, in a clever entertainer having contempt for a guy who ran a huge plumbing business. Explain that one to me, Jimmy. Go ahead. I have time.

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Well, the tittering of a crowd though, also, it's just that we all know we've talked about this for years. The contempt for regular jobs and the adoration of getting a degree and not even having a job. It's weird how not even having a job is held up above a lot of jobs.

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Well, and getting a useless degree at a grade inflated university that doesn't teach you anything. And then getting some sort of low paying cubicle job as a result is admirable and lauded. And the guy running a giant plumbing business is a fool. That's just. I just, I can't dislike these people enough. Yeah.

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That a lot of things, it doesn't matter to me. You know, think that all you want, enjoy your life. You're gonna. You're wrong. But as a cultural attitude, it's really bad for the country. So that, that's where, that's where it bothers me. It needs to. Needs to be changed. I think Mike Roe did a lot of good work on that over the last couple of decades. Just changing that attitude of how is preparing yourself for nothing than doing nothing Better than going out and doing an actual job.

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Right, Right. Yeah, I agree. Obviously. Coming up, a little final dissection of the no Kings rallies, which I think were ridiculous. Exercise in virtually nothing. But Jack tells me there is pushback. But first, inexplicable. Are you kidding me? Trump slash Tiger Woods. News. President Trump has told the New York Post that he spoke with golfer Tiger woods following his latest DUI arrest in Florida, saying the legendary athlete lives a life of pain due to physical injuries, but is doing great. I've talked to him. I think he's doing great. He's doing good. He said he tested negative for alcohol, as you know, and he is under a tremendous physical pressure from his various ailments, you know, the back and the leg. He lives a life of pain. He has a lot of pain. He's an amazing guy. He's an amazing athlete. He does have pain. He doesn't have an alcohol problem, but he does have pain.

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Don't drive, dude.

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Do whatever you want. Anything you want. Just don't kill a little kid on her bike, all right? And you don't know in advance when you're gonna do that, so stay the F out from behind the wheel, Tygie.

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Okay? We'll talk about the no Kings rallies, among other things on the way.

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Next state Armstrong and Gettysburg.

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We have breaking political sex news. Breaking political sex news. The breaking news is Kristi Noem's husband is a sex weirdo.

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Oh, my gosh.

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Yes, Kristi Noem's husband is a weirdo. And it all just broke now. And why did it break now and how did it break now? Is its own. Interesting question. I have my own theory. My own theory would be she is tired of people making comments about her affair and all that sort of stuff. I want to say, look, look.

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Here's what I've been dealing with.

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Here's what I'm dealing with. I've been married for 34 years. I think it'd be nice to keep the family together. But I'm married to a complete freak. And a bunch of pictures just came out of him dressed in some costumes. Holy crap. He's.

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It's.

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I don't know what you call this.

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I do.

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It has a name.

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Yes, indeed. Brian. Brian with an O. There's your first sign.

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Yeah, that's an indicator.

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R, Y, O, N. Let's not get hung up. But that's a perverse spelling. Anyway, Brian Gnome chatted up women from the so called bimbofication fetish scene in which adult performers augment their breasts with massive amounts of saline to achieve a Barbie doll like appearance. Citing hundreds of messages purportedly sent by three women from the scene, Gnomes husband enthusiastically praised their heavily augmented appearances, claiming he coveted huge, huge, ridiculous boobs. One photo the Daily Mail claims Brian Gnome. Yes, thank you, Mr. Krauthammer. Dr. Krauthammer. One photo Brian Gnome shared with the women featured him wearing hot pink pants and a flesh flash, flesh colored skin tight suit.

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These pictures are unbelievable. We're looking at the pictures, they're incredible.

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They're [e-mail] or will be in seconds. He appears to have put balloons in his shirt to mimic comically oversized lopsided breasts, complete with fake protruding nipples and

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his hot tight little pink boy shorts.

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Oh Lord.

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And the kissy face.

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And the kissy face.

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Oh boy. Yeah, let's see Christy put out a statement. Ms. Gnome is devastated. The family was blindsided by this and they asked for privacy and prayers at this time. I'm not sure what to pray for exactly.

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Those are like her workout shorts.

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Oh, so she's put your knees. Hey, if you're gonna dress like a, a woman, put your knees together, sir.

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Totally.

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Yikes. So,

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man, I, I have said this many times and I, I've, I've lived it. I've seen other people. You never have any idea what's going on in somebody else's marriage. You never have any idea. And any conclusions you draw about who's right, wrong, good, bad, what, what? You have no idea. You never have any idea. And well, and not only that, but

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you know, sexually speaking, he thought I got this kink. My wife has shown absolutely zero interest in any of it. So I'm just gonna put it over here and you know, who knows, maybe they had a good marriage for a while, I don't know. But that's some freaky stuff.

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So they got this picture here, at least in the Daily Mail of them from I don't know how many years ago this is. They've been married for 34 years and she looks like a regular person. I mean, very attractive. You know, she just, she's just genetically attractive, but she's got, she looks like an attractive mom. And then when did she go super duper glam? You know, when she wanted to work for Trump.

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Yeah, what is it? Mar a lago face or.

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I mean, it's kind of classic. Your marriage is falling apart. You get all hotted up because you're back on the market and it seems to happen like not even consciously and he seems to happen Subconsciously that people do that because you know, she's kind of claiming with that that she had no idea her husband was doing that she was blindsided by this.

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Right. Yeah.

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You know her, her, her lifestyle with Corey Lewandowski makes more sense with this going on, I think.

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Yeah. Who knows what the state of their marriage was? I don't.

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No, no, that's a great question.

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Well, man.

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So bimbofication. I was kind of aware of that just from being an R. Crumb fan, if you google it of that. But I didn't know you dressed that way.

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These pictures, these optional.

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I can't believe that in the modern world people post pictures that could be this embarrassing to them anywhere. I'm just shocked by that anybody would ever do that because they're gonna, they're gonna come out.

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So looking at the messaging background, it appears he sent these on Snapchat, which those photos are supposed to disappear after you send them. Yeah, obviously.

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So somebody screen captured them or how does that work?

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Well, it tells you if a screenshot is done. So I'm not really too sure. I guess somebody could have been doing a video recording when they were all in these.

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These aren't. I suppose that could be him. No, I mean it's a hundred percent him. These are very clear close up. Kristi Gnomes husband in a super skin tight crop top with gigantic boobs and tiny little pink shorts. It's a weird look. And with his legs.

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Brian spread. Brian, you need more support. Okay. You need an underwire bra. And particularly that large. Oh, oh. And the pink shorts with the crotch shot. Too much.

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Too much. Joe's got his hand in front of his eyes trying to shield himself from having to see it. I'd like to know when she found out if she was dealing with this in her marriage through the whole Minneapolis thing. It might explain something.

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Yeah, or maybe she was actually blindsided. I don't know. I don't know.

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Kind of something that he's into the Barbie look. And then she gets the nickname Ice Barbie.

[A]

Oh, thanks for dipping your phone down and giving me a butt selfie too, Brian.

[B]

I didn't see that one.

[C]

Seriously thinking these are her. Her leggings.

[B]

I'm glad.

[A]

Glad the dog never saw this. Oh my God, Michael, that was completely inappropriate.

[B]

Oh my God. What? That family all the way around, they got some interesting stuff going on.

[A]

Dog shooting, balloon boob sporting pink shorts,

[B]

wearing bell and Brian with an O.

[C]

Brian was using the name Jason Jackson.

[B]

Jason Jackson.

[A]

That's good. That's good.

[B]

So the new York Post version of the story also says that she was, you know, the, the news. That she was blindsided.

[A]

Yeah, I think the Post is just a summary of the Daily Mail coverage.

[B]

Hundreds of messages purportedly sent by three women from that scene that he had been interacting with. Hundreds, yep.

[A]

So that was his thing. It was his hobby. It's good to have a hobby, you know, relieve the stress of the day.

[B]

You bird watch? Yeah.

[A]

You can't think about work all the time. You gotta have a hobby.

[B]

You birdwatch. He stuffs giant balloons in a crop top, puts on tiny little shorts and makes kissy faces for women online and

[A]

corresponds with women who've grotesquely, you know, altered their bodies to please weirdos like himself.

[B]

So I would like to know if this did just come out to her. She's becoming aware of this at the same time. We all are. I'd like to hear what Corey Lewandowski is saying. He's pretty sharp tongued individual.

[A]

Oh boy. Now speaking of praying, I gotta give thanks three times a day for how simple my life is in a lot of ways.

[B]

So now he's saying to his married girlfriend, how's Brian doing? Have you heard from Brian?

[A]

Have you helped him try on bras lately or anything? Or do your lululemon seem a little stretched out when you try to put them on? I think I know what's happened to him.

[B]

Are you, that's. Are you straight and you put on skin tight little pink shorts?

[A]

Yeah. I don't know, is it like an autogynephilia thing or. I have no idea.

[B]

I don't know what that word means.

[A]

That means you, you secretly fantasize about having a vagine as a man.

[B]

What?

[A]

Some transsexual cases are that. Yeah, I've talked about this. You got to start taking notes. Yeah. You fantasize about having a vagine and so eventually you get one. You, you go through the sex change cuz you're, you're fixated on that idea.

[B]

Him sitting there in the little pink skin tight shorts with his legs splayed open.

[A]

I can't imagine it's not a straight look.

[B]

It doesn't mean he's not.

[A]

No. I don't know how that thing work, that twist works. No. No idea.

[B]

We need somebody in the community that knows more about this.

[A]

You're straight and you like women with like cartoonishly large breasts and you get turned on by pretending to be one. I think that's like way beyond straight v. Gay or whatever. It's just, I don't know, I wonder

[B]

if he'd be interesting if he. How long that's been going on and he was. If he was completely hiding it from her like you just said. Thank God. My life's so simple. Oh, my God. I would hate to have a giant part of my life that I have to hide from everybody. Can you imagine how stressful that would be? It just would be awful.

[A]

Well, people are like openly furries these days, so what's got to be kept behind the curtain is. Is getting less and less.

[B]

Well, a lot more in South Dakota than in California.

[A]

Yeah, fair enough. She's like, how was the furry convention? I was good. It was good. When I got back to the ranch, though, I realized, oh, my God, we gotta inoculate the cattle. So I've been playing catch up ever since. But it was nice. It was nice. I gotta get my fox suit dry clean. Thanks for the reminder.

[B]

Well, they're gonna have fun with this story all day long. Probably make all sorts of inappropriate comments.

[A]

I hope not.

[B]

Oh, my God.

[A]

All right. If you've seen the pictures, they can't be unseen.

[B]

No, they can't.

[A]

Just need to take a break.

[B]

Yeah, they are something. Like I said. I'm just surprised that people. That willingness to have your face in a picture like that you send to strangers.

[A]

Ellie's getting his kink on. He got caught up in it. Everybody was having a good time. Right. He didn't think about the repercussions, Jack.

[B]

And that's the lesson, really.

[A]

That's the lesson everybody should take from this.

[B]

If you have any comment that, text us 414-5295, KFTC.

[A]

Armstrong and Getty.

[B]

So the no Kings protests were very, very large. The. The biggest drawback to them, to me, was there wasn't a clear message. It was like a whole bunch of different causes, but it was. I forget how many million people they said over how many different cities, but it was 1 out of 10Americans were out on the street on Saturday. That's pretty amazing.

[A]

According to organizers. Yeah. Okay. Well, great. There's a lot of people.

[B]

There were a lot. I mean, some of the aerial shots at some of the bigger ones like Minneapolis, New York, whatever. They were huge crowds.

[A]

Jeff Blair writes for the National Review. He's a funny guy. He's snarky. He's not a Trump fan at all. But he talks about. He's a Chicagoan. There he was in the West Loop. He says, I ignored all the warning signs, the regular public service announcements on NPR that encouraged my attendance. Sudden Disappearance of lunch and dinner reservations at pricey restaurants, blah blah, the chittering din of septuagenarian Trotsky, it's and blue haired grandmothers as they scuttled from their hidey holes in the North Shore to gather agitatedly in Grant Park. Yes, brood boomer reassembled downtown for reprise of last October's similarly senior heavy affair. The no Kings protest against. Well, what? Deportation of illegals? The potential quagmire of the Iran war, Our cynically mercantilist adventure in Venezuela, that tacky White House ballroom. They were opposed to all of these things and more. They're opposed to the simple existence of the Trump administration in all its unanswerable egregiousness. And why not? Then he goes into the fact that he's no big Trump fan. Everybody has a right to gripe, but all of the observations I made about the demography of the no Kings rally goers back last year applied in redoubled measure to this year's attending class. These people were overwhelmingly old, white, deeply elite progressives, and vastly fewer in number this second time around.

[B]

Hmm.

[A]

I haven't seen so many senior citizens and embarrassingly tight fitting union T shirts worn over top long sleeves since I attended the DNC in 2024. I had difficulty spotting anyone my age or younger and I'm 45.

[B]

It is kind of interesting that it seemed to be so old skewing.

[A]

Yeah, yeah. It is intensely boomer coded and is now done with grim duty to the commands of political organizers rather than as a spontaneous expression of discontent. I don't know if this is a good thing or bad thing. The younger generation has many more discontents than their parents do right now, and it's not as if they lack the appetite for political change themselves. I fear that in their disillusionment and impatience with the gestural politics of boomers, they prefer more destructive methods. Yeah, that's true. I mean, a lot of young people, particularly young women, are crazy politically active right now, but like in a destructive America hating up with anybody who's against Western civilization way. Yeah, I didn't really pay that much attention to the no Kings rallies. They just seem silly to me. But it's, it's a let's all get together and think the same thing and feel good, bad group therapy. Like that writer we quoted last week.

[B]

Trump's got the lowest approval rating he's ever had and it's just being reflected in the street, I guess. I don't know.

[A]

Yeah, I guess anybody brings up the no Kings Rally to you in a week. Call me anytime or night or day.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, I agree.

[A]

Well, there's Jack and there's Joe.

[C]

And it's time to close the show

[A]

with the help of Katie Green and Michelangelo. Hello. There are friends. They're like family and they're on our radio. So let's hear their final thoughts before

[B]

they have to go.

[A]

Hey kids, it's Molesto the crown.

[B]

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

[A]

I mean, people are talking about the civil rights protests half a century later. I'm not going to talk about no kings tomorrow. All right, let's get a final thought from everybody. Michael, lead us off. I got to check my phone, make sure I don't have any embarrassing photos

[B]

that are going to get out.

[A]

You know, it's been a while since

[C]

I've checked my phone, so I better

[A]

look over my, my photos. Katie Greener, esteemed newswoman has a final thought.

[C]

Katie, I know someone who spells her name B, R Y O N and I will forever call them Bryon now or Brion.

[B]

Brion.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Jack, a final thought for us.

[B]

I was looking through some of the online snarks about the Christy gnome and her husband story. So he sticks by her through an affair, but he gets caught one time dressing like whatever the hell he was dressed like and she, you know, shoots him in the, in the rock quarry like a disobedient dog hangs about to dry. Doesn't life mean anything anymore?

[A]

Wow. My final thought is, seriously, the modern world is too much. Retreat to nature with me to Uncle Joe's holiday camp for those worn out by the modern world. And the room rates will be confiscatory, but the service will be excellent.

[B]

And then we put on tight fitting shirts with big giant fake boobs underneath them.

[A]

Totally, totally optional. That's dress up night. That's Tuesday night.

[B]

Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling for our workday.

[A]

They're squeeze into these pink shorts. So many people to thank, so little time. Go to armstronggetty.com for the pictures. Once they are seen, they can't be unseen.

[B]

No, they can't. We will see you tomorrow. God bless America,

[A]

Armstrong. And get it, get it off your chest. I am Captain Pedantic, the world's most annoying superhero.

[B]

Hey, it's Captain Pedantic. Is he going to save us? No, no, no. He's just going to nitp various things that we got wrong.

[A]

Captain Pedantic and his sidekick Picky Boy. Fast enough to make me crazy hostage.

[B]

But look It's Captain Pedantic the entire show on the podcast Armstrong and get a on demand.