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News Reporter
Investigators tell Fox the plan was to use drones with explosives to hit buildings near the UFC Freedom 250 event which would force a mass evacuation and steer crowds toward a pre staged sniper team. A quote second wave was allegedly planning to storm the White House gate. Those accused of being involved in the alleged plot arrested in Ohio, Nebraska, Missouri and California. California.
Matt Quinn
It was unique due to the numbers involved, the level of planning involved.
Armstrong
We talked about this a lot yesterday when the news first broke. I've seen it dismissed by a lot of people. Washington D.C. has technology in place where drones cannot. All these different reasons that it couldn't have happened. Yeah, there are supposedly all kinds of things in place that would make it impossible for a kid to just walk onto a fairgrounds with a rifle, climb up a ladder in front of everybody and very, very come very close to blowing the President's head off. But he did it anyway. So yeah, I'm not sure I'm feel like that this plot had no chance just because of the various safeguards you're mentioning. Anyway, David Spunt goes on in Ohio.
News Reporter
Investigators say 19 year old Tyson Proper's mother called police after she was concerned about her son's recent conduct, including firearms purchases and his communic with people online. Investigators are looking at 23 people in chats online. Proper's father told police his son quit his job recently, quote, in preparation to meet the individuals he had been interacting with online to conduct missions and recons.
Armstrong
Good on mom for calling the cops on her own kid.
Joe Getty
Yeah, yeah. His behavior was extremely troubling. Good for her.
Listener/Caller
Yeah.
Joe Getty
That had to be a difficult thing to do.
Armstrong
Do you have a sense of how close they got to being able to pull this off? I mean did they actually purchase the drones? Did they have any explosives?
Joe Getty
I don't know that. I know they had ample firearms and body armor, that sort of thing. You know, that's a Great question. Another question might be how close did they come to unleashing some sort of death and mayhem, even if their big plot didn't come true because they absolutely had the intent and did the preparation to kill lots of people.
Armstrong
So the Secret Service was not happy that the FBI came out and announced this yesterday.
Joe Getty
Highly unhappy.
Matt Quinn
I'll tell you a phrase I learned early in my career in the New York field office and that's don't choke on your own smoke. Anyone that believes that case was worked in a bubble is naive.
Armstrong
That's Matt Quinn, deputy director of the Secret Service. He goes on, I'll tell you, the
Matt Quinn
Secret Service led that investigation from the beginning. I'll tell you that it's ongoing. In order to maintain the integrity of the investigation and the security plan, we chose not to leak it. They were planning to attack the Freedom 250. Some of what you read this morning is accurate. I'm not going to get into too many details because like I said, this is still an active, ongoing investigation. Just because we're done with Freedom 250 or that particular event doesn't mean we're going to stop. There are still suspects at large and we're going to work it until everyone's been identified.
Armstrong
So he's saying the Secret Service was the lead on this whole investigation and they were from the beginning and they were going to keep their mouths shut. And then why did Cash Patel go out and make all this noise yesterday? And a friend of the Armstrong and Getty show who's very close to these sorts of organizations said with the release of that sealed indictment, the chance of identifying co conspirators decreases. None of those indicted, arrested guys will work for the government now. Totally sophomoric move by the FBI. I don't, you know, I don't know anything about this, but it's hard to imagine what the upside was of coming out early on this, letting us know what happened.
Joe Getty
Yeah, it's interesting because I just before that came out, I was just reading that the White House is at a bit of a fever pitch over the question of leaks, specifically leaks of what happened during carefully classified meetings, you know, in the Situation Room and that sort of thing. And there's a fair amount of that in the new book that's come out by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan in which, you know, people are quoted directly, what the seating arrangements were, who was on the speakerphone. I mean, clearly they have sources from inside that room. And here's a perhaps completely inappropriate self aggrandizing Leak from Cash Patel. I gotta believe he's getting the. Getting the. The fisheye.
Matt Quinn
What do they call it?
Joe Getty
The stink eye from Trump. Yeah, if. If he mysteriously decides to resign in future days. That's what's going on.
Armstrong
So mom had heard her son, who lived in the basement, talking to his friends and told law enforcement that the group was angry about the handling of the Epstein files and the false belief that data centers were using up all the water in the communities. Yeah, that group also planned to target politicians who took money from aipac, the Israeli lobby. And then the guy in California that got arrested said that we have politicians eating babies, raping and eating babies, and I can't stand for that. So he believes that Epstein QAnon thing.
Joe Getty
Right.
Armstrong
I brought that up to my kids yesterday, and my older son said that he knows lots of people in his high school that believe that stuff, or at least pretend to believe that stuff.
Joe Getty
Yeah, I've been shocked at some people I've run into lately who get hooked by the whole conspiracy theory thing. They're like, yeah, yeah, this. This is not what meets the eye. But they have none of the facts. They've just been led down the garden path by people who are really good at that sort of thing. How big is that underclass, Underclass class of people who suck up all of the QAnon Tucker canvas stuff at this point.
Armstrong
So I went through the whole story with my kids because they hadn't heard it on the whole QAnon. So it was a guy who is now since outed himself, who was jerking people around online, claiming he had all this secret information. He has come out and said it himself. There's a documentary on Netflix or wherever from several years ago. He came out and said, I did it to jerk people around. I thought it was hilarious. He has said that. Yet the crap he made up, people continue to believe, even when the guy who started it says, yeah, I was just jerking you around.
Joe Getty
I can't believe anybody fell for it.
News Reporter
No.
Joe Getty
Total false flag. That was not the real QAnon. That was a guy claiming to be. To discredit it. But we've seen behind. We've seen beyond that. That's a. We were not duped by that because we're the group that's in the know and really understands what's going on.
Armstrong
But there are conspiracies, and there are conspiracies. I mean, some of them, like, a lot of them, I don't believe. But I, you know, I can see how maybe there's some truth how is your immediate reaction not. No blanking way when you hear, we read the Epstein. Epstein files carry such weight, like it means something. No, it's a piece of paper. A crazy person called some cop or FBI or whoever claimed they were on a yacht where they saw George Bush rape a baby, then cut the baby into pieces, cut the baby open, and then eat the poo out of the baby's intestines. Now, how is your reaction to that not.
Joe Getty
Please, you're saying that did not or did happen.
Armstrong
The fact that your reaction could be anything but just immediate dismissal of, wow, that person's really crazy. You could go with, well, I suppose a whole bunch of people saw that and have kept it secret because, you know, people keep secrets like that all the time.
Joe Getty
Yeah, it's just. I don't even know, I can't wrap
Armstrong
my head around it, that there would be 10 people in the country that would believe that could be true.
Joe Getty
Yeah. I came across a really great editorial in the New York Post about anti Semitism and how it's about much, much more than just publicly hating Jews. It's this strain, strand of moral and intellectual rot that completely consumes its host culture. And it's. It's actually really interesting and insightful, and it sent me on a bit of a research rabbit hole about the nature of cultural scapegoating. And there have been, you know, many examples throughout history. The Jews are the most popular target. But the psychological common ground it shares with, like the witch hunts, where you live in a confusing, threatening world, and if somebody can reduce the randomness and threat of it to something explainable that you can fight against, it doesn't matter how ridiculous and implausible the singling out of the scapegoat is. People of a certain mindset go to it and they need it, and they're. They're incredibly enthusiastic about it. And, and the interesting part about it is that the further it goes, persecution intensifies, rather than the persecution intensifies the feeling. It's not responding to evidence that intensifies the. The feelings.
Armstrong
It's the.
Joe Getty
The witch trials themselves whipped up enthusiasm for witch trials. And people felt like, yeah, they're doing it over there. It must be legitimate. And so we're going to do it too. And by God, that's the solution. Even though they've never seen the evidence of its truth. And, you know, I don't know what to do about that. I have a feeling the people who desperately need to hear that will not hear it, you know, from us. I'm not sure they'll hear it from anybody because they self, you know, they self select what inputs they take online. Almost entirely online.
Armstrong
Yeah. Well, what stood out to me in the conversation with my kids was my son saying, yeah, lots of high schoolers in his school believe that stuff. So they heard that from their parents or. I don't know. I really don't know.
Joe Getty
Yeah, or online. Young men in particular really get sucked into these online communities that promise them that you will really know what's going on and really understand what's happening because we're not going to let those bastards lie to you. That's an appealing itch.
Armstrong
And so the whole Epstein thing is the Israel controlled Epstein, he was an asset of. Of Israel, worked for the Mossad and he was running the child pedo ring in the United States. And it goes back to Jews drink the blood of babies, something or other.
Joe Getty
Okay, actually the, the learned editorial I was talking about, this guy's conclusion is, and I found this super intriguing, the answer is simple. Stop this quote unquote, combating antisemitism. An effort to which everyone from the federal government to the organized American Jewish community is currently pouring tremendous resources these days. It's an enormous waste of time and money because antisemitism, the world's oldest hatred, isn't something we're going to solve anytime soon. I thought, wow, wait, what? Instead we should treat antisemitism as what it is, a symptom for a much larger problem that isn't political but spiritual. The problem of no longer knowing what it is we believe in, defining and defending our core common American virtues is hard. Hissing that all of our problems are due to the nefarious interference of a shadow minority is much easier. We must resist this temptation at all costs and by any means necessary. We can set up a federal task force to make sure our shared values, liberty and dignity, to name but a few, are taught vigorously at every level of education. Then he talks about, I don't know, reinstate the draft, mandatory public service, give them young Americans a deep and real school, universal community school. Invest mightily in cultural startups dedicated not to tearing down America's past like all of our educational institutions, but in propping up its future and teaching the kids about how great this country is. You don't. It's one of those things, you fill the vacuum with something positive. Don't fake focus on the negative emotion, focus on what's missing. I thought that was really interesting and insightful.
Armstrong
Yeah, it is. So nature abhors an emotional vacuum. Also, something has to be a spiritual vacuum.
Joe Getty
Yeah.
Armstrong
Interesting.
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Yeah.
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Joe Getty
President Trump signed an executive order to roll back environmental restrictions on commercial fishing, which explains the new restaurant restaurant chain Gray Lobster.
Armstrong
What was Mike Pompeo in the Trump administration? He was the.
Joe Getty
See, the national security advisor. That's close.
Armstrong
Anyway, he's this statement from him. So this is piggybacking on Vance and Trump both talking about, look, the people we're dealing with now, they don't even want a nuclear weapon anymore. They're good guys. You can trust them. Mike Pompeo, former Trump administration official, director to the CIA. That's right. He was CIA director.
Joe Getty
Yeah.
Armstrong
He said a deal with Iran must recognize that this regime has no desire to be a responsible member of the community of nations. They do not regret the last 47 years, nor think it was a mistake to kill Americans. They are radical Islamists. Any funds available to the regime, whether paid to them directly, provided by sanctions relief or via releasing escrowed funds, will go straight toward rebuilding the IRGC military capabilities and its terrorist proxies. When your enemy is at your weakest, you need to win.
Joe Getty
He was also Trump's Secretary of State.
Armstrong
I've forgotten he was Secretary of State.
Georgia Hardstark
Yeah.
Armstrong
So he's dealt with these people before. And he is stating that the vice president's claim that. Look, they've decided we should play that clip from you. It's from yesterday's sheet, but because he doesn't kind of laugh, you go, look, they're looking at it now and thinking, what were we thinking? Trying to get a nuclear weapon all that years that hasn't done us any good. So now we're all on the same page here. So that's fantastic.
Joe Getty
Just ridiculous. Yesterday's 56. Michael, can you grab that? Perhaps
Armstrong
he's standing. You're standing perfectly still. Did you hear? Okay.
Iranian Official
For 47 years, this country has been a thorn in our side. It's been kind of a basket case for Democrat and Republican administrations. The coolest thing about the progress we've made over the last few weeks is that you see people within the Iranian system, senior leadership, even IRGC officials, say, you know what, we may have some animosity, we may have some mistrust, but we recognize the way that we've done business with the United States for 47 years is a mistake. Let's try something else. We're going to verify that, of course, but we're certainly, certainly willing to try something else if they comply.
Armstrong
The coolest thing we've seen is they've decided that 47 years are hating us and death to America and everything is it doesn't work for us.
Joe Getty
So, boy, you know, old Pavlovi, the crown prince, the son of the shah, he's out with just a withering statement, too. I'm looking and I'm looking for, hey, this will probably work out. This looks good because I can't find it anywhere.
Armstrong
Does JD Believe that Mark Levin is
Joe Getty
murdering Trump on this?
Armstrong
Yeah. Does J.D. vance believe that these tigers have changed their stripes?
Joe Getty
I just think he's the sitting vice president. He works for the president.
Armstrong
He's spinning best he can.
Joe Getty
Yeah. Although, you know, under our system, he's elected independently.
Armstrong
But Trump's up there speaking right now, and I don't know, maybe I'm misreading it, but Marco Rubio over his shoulder looks miserable to me.
Joe Getty
Maybe you got some bad food over there and where are they?
Armstrong
Marco has to be miserable, doesn't he? No way. He believes these guys have changed and aren't going to try to get a nuclear weapon.
Joe Getty
Yeah, he's near despair. Practically guaranteed.
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Xiaobon Intelligent Toilet robot, designed primarily as a mobile autonomous toilet for elderly people or those with mobility challenges. As a Instead of the person going to the toilet, the toilet comes to the person as soon as you are finished. The robot initiates a built in bidet system for automated washing followed by a warm air drying cycle. From there, a heavy duty odor control mechanism instantly engages, sealing the internal chamber airtight to trap and neutralize any smells. The robot drives itself back to the docking station. It then extends a disposal arm, completely flushing both the solid and and liquid waste away. Immediately after, it runs an intensive self cleaning and sanitizing cycle on the bowl, leaving it pristine for the next trip.
Joe Getty
What does this cost? Never mind. It doesn't matter. I must have one because $13,000 because
Armstrong
getting up and going to the toilet Is such a job. You need the toilet to come to you.
Joe Getty
Whatever room I'm in. That's correct. Living room, kitchen. Doesn't matter.
Armstrong
Kitchen. So you're sitting there eating dinner and your family has to watch you do this?
Joe Getty
They don't have to. They can avert their eyes. Nobody's making them watch.
Armstrong
Start your phone for a second, kids.
Joe Getty
You know, if, if someone is elderly or that sort of thing, I, I, I could appreciate that.
Armstrong
Sounds like very easy.
Joe Getty
This is, this is a great time to be alive.
Armstrong
Maybe you're lazy and sometimes you gotta go and you think, do I want
Joe Getty
to walk clear across the house? Or I just like going my all the way over there.
Armstrong
I mean, I just soil myself. Nobody's coming over tonight.
Joe Getty
Now you don't have to face that unfortunate choice. Now the toilet comes to you.
Armstrong
Right. You still gotta scoot off your chair onto it, right, though?
Joe Getty
Oh, yeah. Presumably, yeah. Unless you get, you know, the next model, be it, I guess the robot would, its docking station would be under your favorite chair.
Armstrong
What does it look like?
Joe Getty
Most of the time it would just be right there. If you happen to be in a different chair across the house, well, then you could call it to you.
Armstrong
What does it look like, Miles? Look like a little trash can on wheels?
Joe Getty
No, it's like a chair on wheels, but you know, just like you would imagine. Chair on wheels. Chair on wheels. I mean.
Rob Gronkowski
Yeah.
Joe Getty
Again, only in America. What a wonderful thing.
Armstrong
Yeah. I don't know if there's an audience for that.
Joe Getty
So. Totally different topic than mobile robot toilets. I thought this was interesting. There was a big debate last night or two nights ago in the California Assembly. There's some big DEI bill that's about to pass as California goes further down the road of neo Marxism and dei, which is nothing it claims to be. And I compiled a list of that sort of program that's going on right now. They all happen to be on the west coast, but Chris Ruffo wrote a great piece for City Journal. California is currently pressuring public utilities to award $633 million in special contracts to LGBT owned firms. But to qualify, you've got to go through the state's official gay certification program, and you face up to a year in jail if you're not gay enough.
Armstrong
So I gotta. In front of someone.
Joe Getty
With someone. Oh, yeah, yeah.
Armstrong
But yeah, obviously with someone. In front of someone so they can document.
News Reporter
Yep.
Armstrong
He's either gay or he was good at pretending.
Georgia Hardstark
All right.
Joe Getty
Scheme operates through the California Public Utilities Commission, the cpuc, which regulates Privately owned utility companies. California utilities spent more than $43 billion on contractors, fuel suppliers, surveys, engineers and others. You know, you can imagine. But they created a supplier diversity problem way back when. But now they're trying to expanded to the lgbtq. Plus minus over the Power three community.
Armstrong
What's the theory that I, the taxpayers should be giving a break to gay owned businesses over? Well, the idea is that they were. They were discriminated against in the past or something.
Joe Getty
It's usually that sort of thing. Yeah, it's just an excuse to spread out money to specific cronies. But the idea that you would be awarded state contracts based on who you are romantically attracted and or sexually attracted to is bizarre. Applicants can secure gay certification by providing a letter from an LGBT organization attesting to their sexual preferences.
Armstrong
Now, is that a one time deal? Do I get certified the first time I do it or do I every six months? Do I have to go back and get recertified? Bring some dude along and I would
Joe Getty
think it's like a medical license. You have to be recertified every so often. Make sure you haven't forgotten what you've learned.
Listener/Caller
Yeah.
Armstrong
Wow. I got to go do it again.
Joe Getty
So you can either get a letter from an LGBT organization declaring you gay, proof that a newspaper identified you as lgbt, or three letters from personal contacts written on company letterhead attesting to your homosexual orientation. Corporate officials who falsely represent their business as gay face up to a year in county jail.
Wrestling Enthusiast
Wow.
Listener/Caller
Man.
Armstrong
If I was going to start a business, I'd be pretty tempted to claim I was gay and make them prove I'm not.
Joe Getty
Yeah, yeah. Prove I'm not gay.
Armstrong
I should have mentioned.
Joe Getty
I've been wanting to mention it for a week now. The Justice Department issued an opinion explaining the disparate impact under federal law is unconstitutional.
Armstrong
Should be.
Joe Getty
It's an earthquake in federal civil rights law. Writes one civil rights attorney. If right. This is the foundation to overturn that pernicious regime. And the Wall Street Journal. The Constitution versus disparate impact. That's the presumption that if there's a different result, say white kids tend to do better than black kids on this test. That's proof there is racism there.
Armstrong
Or if you got more men passing the firefighter test than women, the test is skewed against women.
Joe Getty
Clearly unfairly so.
Armstrong
Yeah.
Joe Getty
And needs to be corrected by the government.
Armstrong
No chance that just men are better at that than or more are applying or any other number of things. Nope. It's clearly sexism or racism.
News Reporter
Or whatever.
Armstrong
If you don't end up with an equal result only against black and brown people, though, right? Asian people and people from India, because they're better than everybody. You can discriminate against them.
Joe Getty
Or Jewish people. Yeah, no problem. There's no problem there. Justice Department took a great step by telling the Equal Opportunity Commission that its policy on disparate impact was unconstitutional and companies might be. That's kind of confusing. It's the old double reverse. But here's the key quote. Rather than treating disparate impact as an evidentiary mechanism to smoke out intentional discrimination, it contemplates liability based on disproportionately adverse effects alone. Blah, blah, blah. You've got to prove intent and specific activity to discriminate, which is so obviously true. But. So how far has this sort of thing gone? Some more examples for you. Canada, which is admittedly not an American state, explicitly advertises for university and other jobs that are restricted by race and gender. You need not apply, unless you are this race or this gender for government jobs in Canada, which is obscene. This is hilarious. Charles Cook, quoted for the second time on the show today. He says, here's a story so crazy that upon first glance I assumed it must be a hoax. And it's a tweet from a guy who says, I just got a silver alert, which is a good, good reminder that California decided to racially segregate its missing person alert system for some reason. And Charlie's headline is, apparently California has a racially segregated missing person alert system. There is an Amber Alert, which is actually named after a kidnapped child by the name of Amber, that is a missing child. There is a Blue alert, which is which one? Maybe I'll just read it.
Armstrong
And Smurf has gone missing. Hilarious.
Joe Getty
Okay, so you've got the Ebony Alert, which is for the suspicious or unexplainable explainable disappearance of a black woman or black person, and the Feather Alert, which is for when a missing person is an indigenous woman or indigenous person. The blah, blah, blah. And there's also a yellow alert, but mercifully, given the state's history, that isn't in the same vein as the others. He says. And then he points out, it's so weird when you dig into it. The CHP notes, as I just read, the Ebony Alert accompanies investigations into the suspicious or unexplained disappearment that disappearance of a black woman or black person. Why are those two things separated? Black women are black persons. There's no or about it. The same goes for the feather alert. Again, one group contains the other. I suppose if you're already slicing up adults into racial groups for alerts for some reason, then creating more weird subdivisions comes naturally. But it doesn't look half strange and, well, racist especially. You know, Constitution says you're not supposed to discriminate by race, both the state and federal constitutions.
Armstrong
So I was having this conversation with my son the other day about how it's okay to discriminate against or. No, it's okay to point out advantages. Different. I don't know what term to use. Races, ethnicities, skin colors, whatever groups, whatever advantages, but not disadvantages. And how weird that is. You can say that this group is better at this than others, but you can't say a group is worse than that. So you're making this assumption that everything's only a positive and never a negative. Anyway, we got started on this. My son sat down. There's a thing they do in the town I live in is they have pianos, various places sitting outside. And so you can just sit down and play the piano. Like, there's one at the library, and then there's one downtown by a coffee shop, and there's a couple different places.
Joe Getty
Wow.
Armstrong
And covered.
Joe Getty
Or are they subject to the elements?
Armstrong
I don't know how they survive the rain, but anyway, they're not in the greatest tune, but they're a piano. And so Henry sat down the other day. I was getting some coffee. He said, I'm gonna go play the piano. So he's over there by the. A different coffee shop playing the piano. And I heard him, and I went over there. This little Asian girl came along. When he got up and just started cranking out some Mozart or whatever the hell she was.
Joe Getty
Yeah.
Armstrong
And he said, it seems like everything I do, some Asian kid comes along and shows me up.
Joe Getty
There you go.
Armstrong
I thought, yeah, yeah, that's the way it is for us white people, Asia. The Asians are showing us up at absolutely everything, pretty much. And you can say that, but you couldn't do the opposite. If you're better than a group at something, you can't point that out because that's racist.
Joe Getty
Yeah. You're better than another group.
Armstrong
Pointing out being worse than a group
Joe Getty
is okay, well, that's the weird thing. You can praise a culture, but you can't say they're bad at this unless it's in the context of it's proof that there's been terrible discrimination.
Armstrong
You can say there are no sociological
Joe Getty
norms that are negative or cultural norms that are negative. Except those that can be explained away by racism, which is so crazy to me because since I've been a kid I've been studying different cultures and political systems and they all have pluses and minuses because, well, of course they do.
Armstrong
Just like every human being has pluses and minuses. So you can say Asians are better at science and math. You can't say Asians are bad drivers. These are things. And I just picked a obviously not true stereotype that only racists would say as an example.
Joe Getty
I can't even believe the words came out of your mouth.
Armstrong
Everything I do, some Asian kid comes along and shows me up.
Joe Getty
Couple more headlines for you. We'll squeeze them in real quick because I went to the trouble of compelling them. A Portland based county, Portland area County, it's Multnomah county, spent millions of dollars on race based housing programs and outcomes for homeless minorities got worse. They dismissed the data that showed that arguing that lived experience mattered as much as measurable outcomes. I mean how stone dreamy Portlandia is that lived experience counts more than your hard cold data. Race dependent. And we talked about this actually when, when it first came to light that you there was a point scoring system where if you were a black trans person, a 25 year old male masquerading as a female, whatever, you got emergency housing before a pregnant white lady or a white mom because you were lower down on the intersectionality totem pole. These people are insane. They're racists and they're going further down the road. It ain't over yet.
Armstrong
We'll finish strong.
Joe Getty
Next Armstrong and Getty.
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So we're just doing the story about how you can, if you're, if you, if you're running a gay business, you can get some sort of tax break. If you're, if you're gay and running a business, it doesn't have to be a gay business or trans.
Joe Getty
That's right. Yeah.
Armstrong
I was just wondering how you prove that. Do you go before a government board?
Xiaobon Toilet Robot Narrator
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Joe Getty
Yeah. Long time friend of the Armstrong and Getty show writes if you fake being gay and get busted and go to jail and get sexed up by an inmate. Do you get out and get the contract? Right. And I think if this cellmate is willing to sign a notarized statement saying, you seem to enjoy it.
Armstrong
Yes, you get the gift, you enjoy it, is the question.
Joe Getty
Yeah, yeah. And then he notes that in California, no one stays in jail locked up long enough to actually consummate the deal. Chris Ruffo, in his description of this idiotic woke California program, details the experience of Marianne Horton, who used to be. Well, he's still a dude essentially, but it was a white male who quote unquote, transitioned. But he was an early Internet Internet pioneer credited with helping develop the email attachment. That's a claim.
Armstrong
Invented the little paper clip that goes there by the email.
Joe Getty
But now Marianne has a. Is regarded in California as a woman. And Marianne's business is an LGBT owned business. The application process, Horton told City Journal, requires a mess of documentation to prove that the company was lesbian owned. They sent supplier clearinghouse, a domestic partner affidavit, blah, blah, blah, birth certificate, which Washington state post certified as post transition. Then there's a therapist carry letter, a document for medical professionals certifying transgender identity
Armstrong
and give her two drinks and watch. That's what you do here. I need to see what happens.
Joe Getty
Yeah, I think it was. Well, it's funny because this person applied as a lesbian, not transgender. What the hell?
Armstrong
So we mentioned this earlier in the show. More details will be coming out, I'm sure, but scumbag murderer Luigi Mangione, allegedly, but also actually who is accused of killing the poor health care executive of United Health Care, murdering him in cold blood because his Luigi Mangione is a scumbag. His lawyers planned to argue that Luigi was experiencing extreme emotional disturbance when he killed the United Healthcare executive. He had a. His strong emotions resulted in a profound loss of self control leading to the homicide.
Joe Getty
Yeah, that's not a good argument. People who lose their self control and murder somebody in cold blood on the pavement, we generally put them in a cage for the rest of their days or execute them. Good luck, Luigi.
Armstrong
Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Joe Getty
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew to wrap up the day there is pressing the button in the control room. Michelangelo, what's your final thought? The robot toilets. We could use them at sporting events. You don't have to leave your seat anymore to go to the restroom. It just comes to you. You just do your business and it goes away.
Armstrong
I want to be sitting next to somebody at a Sporting event while they're.
Joe Getty
Yeah, yeah.
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Beautiful.
Joe Getty
Jack, a final thought for us.
Wrestling Enthusiast
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Armstrong
Katie. Katie, the news lady. Katie Green, our news person who had a baby a while back. She is constantly sending us pictures and she's got one cute baby, I will tell you that.
Joe Getty
Oh yeah, Tiny little fella. We're gonna be checking in with Katie in the next day or two, I think. Get an update. My final thought is what if I swore up and down that I'm a closeted gay man, come from a fundamentalist family and I, you know, I haven't admitted it to anybody, but yeah, I think about sex with men all the time. I, I, I grit my teeth when I'm with my wife. I'm, but I'm, I'm gay as hell or I'm selling.
Armstrong
I just haven't find the right person yet.
Joe Getty
Right. And so I've kept things quiet. There's no documentation. What are they going to discriminate against me? This is bigotry.
Armstrong
Armstrong and Getty wrapping up out of the grueling four hour workday.
Joe Getty
So stupid. So many people.
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We'll see you tomorrow. God bless America.
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As soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a
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Look at you.
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In this episode of Armstrong & Getty On Demand, hosts Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty focus on new policies around identity-based business certifications in California, the persistence and societal ramifications of conspiracy theories, culture war topics such as DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) legislation, and a smattering of lighter content including robot toilets and humorous cultural observations. The episode’s recurring theme is about official "certification"—for sexual orientation, identity, and even missing-person alert systems—raising questions about bureaucracy, fairness, and the unintended consequences of social engineering.
Timestamps: 03:32–16:34
Discussion of Recent Foiled Attack:
Secret Service vs. FBI:
The Psychology of Conspiracies:
Timestamps: 28:57–40:16; 43:34–47:44
California’s ‘Gay Certification’ Program:
Disparate Impact and Identity-Based Policies:
California’s Segregated Alert System:
Culture War on Race and Ethnicity:
Timestamps: 27:07–28:53; 46:43–47:44
Mobile Robot Toilets:
Final Thoughts:
Timestamps: 11:59–16:34
Timestamps: 39:02–40:16
The show’s tone is sardonic, irreverent, and sharply skeptical, with the hosts bringing humor and skepticism to bureaucracy, identity politics, and conspiracy culture alike. Their underlying message questions whether modern solutions to social problems have gone off the rails and whether a focus on shared values and individual character should replace bureaucracy-heavy "certification" regimes.
Summary by Armstrong & Getty On Demand Podcast Summarizer.