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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. The website Boston.com is hosting a what is the best Boston movie tournament style bracket jacket and they have asked that you please stop writing in your mother's sex tape.
Joe Getty
That's pretty.
Jack Armstrong
That's pretty funny. Yeah.
Joe Getty
I'm looking at the guy. Katie. This is the guy that walked away from the plane crash where it looks like everybody else died.
Jack Armstrong
Isn't that amazing?
Joe Getty
It is amazing.
Jack Armstrong
He literally walked away like, wow, that sucked. I should probably go to a hospital. He's talking to people. People are talking to him like and they're frantic and he's, he's slightly disoriented.
Joe Getty
And yeah, they took him to the well, probably thinking, you know, maybe he's got some brain trauma or hurt his back or something. But here is, he's standing up talking to people before somebody said you ought.
Michaelangelo
To go to the hospital.
Joe Getty
He looks fine.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
Unknown
And his brother was seated somewhere else.
Joe Getty
On the plane and it looks like everybody else is dead. 242 people. The miracle of the seat.
Jack Armstrong
11A.
Joe Getty
Yeah, we gotta charge more for that seat on every flight from here on out.
Jack Armstrong
That's sick. You're sick. That's not funny. That's sick. The old. That was the slogan of the national lampoon magazine.
Joe Getty
Really?
Jack Armstrong
1970S. Yeah. Yeah. Oh man, I love that magazine. So a quick, just to take a quick look at some news stories that we've talked about previously or haven't yet. But US has begun evacuating non essential staff from embassies and military bases throughout the Middle east as tensions rise with Iran. Would not surprise me an iota to hear at any point today that explosions were seen at the what you call it, nuclear site in Tehran. Probably be Israel with our go ahead if not our active help. Trump announced a successful end to trade talks with China today. CIA saying China will supply the US with crucial rare earth minerals while the US will allow Chinese foreign students to Attend US Colleges and universities. China said, wait, what? No, we didn't. What? We just got a framework. Well, that's the presumptive close. If you're familiar with sales techniques, that's Trump doing something I'm sure he's done many times. So we have a deal?
Joe Getty
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
The other party's like, wait, what?
Joe Getty
So we'll get that car in there and we'll. We'll get it shined up and washed for you, and then it'll be. Wait a second. I didn't say I want to buy it.
Jack Armstrong
Sign those papers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The White House says it's preparing to ramp up its transfer of foreign nationals to Guantanamo Bay. Wow, that's.
Joe Getty
So you're a busboy in la and you get rounded up, you might end up at Gitmo.
Jack Armstrong
I don't know. I don't know. The Gitmo thing, it's a publicity stunt, but it's kind of like it. David Hogg was officially ousted as the Vice chair of the DNC.
Joe Getty
So the kid's last name is Hogg, spelled with two GS. And then you decided to make a pig noise before you.
Jack Armstrong
Correct.
Joe Getty
Okay, exactly.
Jack Armstrong
Yes. After he launched a campaign to unseat asleep at the wheel, incumbent Democrats, he then put out a statement that, interestingly enough, was actually quite good.
Joe Getty
Yeah, I saw that.
Jack Armstrong
I read most of it.
Joe Getty
I saw that.
Jack Armstrong
It was essentially, look, these government people are there for themselves. These 30 year incumbents, they don't care about their constituents. They just care about growing their own power and that of the government. That is correct, Mr. Swine. On the other hand, your policy prescriptions all are terrible, but you're right about that.
Joe Getty
Yes.
Michaelangelo
Now go.
Joe Getty
Wee, wee, wee. All the way home.
Jack Armstrong
We have a winner. That's the punchline I was looking for. Yeah. Let's see. Year on year inflation, lower number than many had feared. Let's see. Oh, and yes, Jack, you know, one.
Joe Getty
Of my favorite political stories right now is how all these conservative outlets are backing Andrew Cuomo for mayor of New York because he's the least horrible choice. He's running against social, Various brands of socialists and full out communists. And so, yeah, Andrew Cuomo is the guy. Let's go with Andrew Cuomo. Let's all rally around Andrew Cuomo. We can't have him, a communist, win the mayorship. And so, yeah, all kinds of people have endorsed him.
Jack Armstrong
And I love you.
Joe Getty
And I mean, he's a. He's all kinds of crook and a liar and horrible judgment and groping.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, just all kinds of.
Joe Getty
But he's the best choice. He's better than a communist.
Jack Armstrong
Excelsior.
Joe Getty
He's going to be the freaking mayor of New York. I mean, I mean it might be, it's a, it's a mayor as opposed to the President. So Trump still wins, but it might be in a more amazing comeback than Trump. I mean it's just he was, he killed old people and lied about it.
Jack Armstrong
Right. There is a greater truth here about the nature of the electorate in deep blue cities. I mean you look at Chicago for instance. Brandon Johnson is a union hack. He's a social. He's a Marxist, he's a moron.
Joe Getty
You only want to play around.
Jack Armstrong
52 Michael. Yeah, the great Brandon John.
Joe Getty
I remember a few stand ups ago.
Jack Armstrong
When I talked about what terrorism looks like.
Joe Getty
This is it. There should be no question to what our country would look like had the Confederacy won. What we're seeing it on full display.
Jack Armstrong
We'Re talking about the ICE raids is a full display of what America would have been like if the Confederacy had won.
Joe Getty
Oh, it armed.
Jack Armstrong
Except a couple of things there, Brandon, and I'll speak slowly because you're an effing idiot. The Confederacy wasn't trying to take over the Union. Okay, so if they'd have won, it just would have been there, just those few states. Okay. Secondly, what the idea that. Wow, wow. So this is the what terrorism looks like. And if the KKK had won. What a jackass. Anyway, what do we do other than voting with our feet, with an electorate. And granted, don't just picture ordinary voters when I say the electorate in the big cities like Chicago and New York and to a large degree in Sacramento, the capital of California too. It's the unions, the concentrated interests of various pressure groups, primarily public employee unions, that win the day every single time.
Joe Getty
Yeah, because you know, obviously there's got to be something like that going on or you'd end up with a better candidate than Andrew freaking Cuomo. And how old is he, Katie? How old is Andrew Cuomo? Can you look that up for me? So he's super old. He's a crook, he's a groper. He lied about killing old people, so his judgment is horrible.
Jack Armstrong
But he's not a Mobster. Yeah, he's 67.
Joe Getty
Okay. He's a young man compared to.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, he's a child in American politics these days. Boy, that's a troubling story. And speaking of troubling, you know, this was going to be my bridge to another story. I'll hold off on That I will tell you this, Jack. Beloved American institution that you're a big fan of might be bought by the Qatari royal family.
Joe Getty
Oh, what is it?
Jack Armstrong
Papa John's Pizza.
Joe Getty
Something happened with Papa John's. I don't know. I feel like they changed the recipe. That happens a lot with pizza joints. They get popular. I don't know that this happened with Papa John's. I do know that it's happened with some of my other favorite national pizzas.
Jack Armstrong
Where they hashtag me to Papa John himself. Right. And drove him away.
Joe Getty
But there's, like, one of my pizza favorite piece of places. I mean, if you were trying to stay out of the rain, maybe you would craft a hut to keep the rain off your head. But their pizza used to be great back in the day. It started in Kansas, and then the price stayed the same for decades. How'd you do that? With the ingredients going down to where it's just horrible now in my.
Jack Armstrong
That's it. There's. There's a huge sector of the pizza market that's all about cheap.
Joe Getty
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
And there's only one way to win that sector by being the cheapest.
Joe Getty
So you go with a squeak, squeak, Whatever meat you got to use.
Jack Armstrong
And the cheese is just congealed grease from the taco stand next door. It's allegedly. Anyway.
Joe Getty
I don't know what sound an opossum makes or I would make it, but.
Jack Armstrong
Whatever'S handy, man. Whatever's handy. What do we have in the bin?
Joe Getty
So the guitaris are buying Papa John's.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, more on that and. Yeah, just more on that to come. The great Brian Wilson, considered in a.
Joe Getty
Moment or two what a crazy life. Would you consider him a musical genius? Fair to say?
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I think so. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah.
Joe Getty
Absolute musical genius. And I was listening to a bunch of his stuff. There were some Spotify lists yesterday of, you know, best examples of Beach Boys music, including a whole bunch of songs I'd never heard before in my life, especially when considered the time that they were recorded. I mean, some of this stuff was recorded in, like, 63. It's like, wow.
Jack Armstrong
And I will include a controversial statement that will anger many of you in our discussion of the Beach Boys.
Joe Getty
But he was mentally ill. He was a drug addict. He. He signed on to a guru that the state of California then forbid to ever work again. It was so crazy. All kinds of different stuff. We'll tell you about some of it coming back.
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Joe Getty
So the news. News broke while we were on the air yesterday that Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys had died at age 82. I wasn't sure how much attention it would get, but it got a ton throughout the day, every newscast. And then as I was watching the news today, a lot of coverage. And I can't figure out if it's what's probably a combination of how big the Beach Boys were Even though it's 60 years ago was their heyday and the fact that the audience for cable news is so old. But. But he was one of the great musical geniuses. Joe knows way more about this stuff than I do. I used to know a lot more about music, but I purposefully purged it from my brain and it's worked pretty well. There's lots of stuff that I know do that apparently you can. I've done it with sports statistics and music. Tons of stuff that I know I knew you used to know that I no longer know because I just decided that's useless information that has done me no good. I'm not holding on to that anymore.
Jack Armstrong
I don't know that I can will that to happen.
Joe Getty
I have.
Jack Armstrong
That's a. This is a farm. Well, you have maybe. It's a fascinating concept.
Joe Getty
I wish I could will back into my brain like my password from my bank account so I don't have to look it up every single time.
Jack Armstrong
Yes. So my controversial statement that people will be angry at is the, the Beach Boys hits that made them huge. They're fine. They're heavily Chuck Berry inspired. Very catchy, well sung. How did they get fine?
Joe Getty
I know they got sued for one song for sounding too much like Chuck Berry and put his name on it. But how about the one that starts with the. The Johnny B. Goode guitar riff? I mean, that's 100 stolen. How did they get away with that? Because you can't.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
Joe Getty
I copyright riffs the way you can. Lyrics or melodies.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Yeah. That's interesting. I don't know. Or was that the one that they had to get.
Joe Getty
No different song. That's what surprise. When I listen to it yesterday, I thought, because I have learned that note from note that is a hundred percent the Johnny B. Goode opening anyway.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, but so it's the, the three chord hits that they had early. That's not why people refer to Brian Wilson. Wilson as musical genius. I mean he was a fine songwriter and hit maker. It was, you know, the stuff he did later in his career that was, that was really innovative.
Joe Getty
Because weird for people who don't know you said this yesterday. He, he was, he was the Beach Boys to a great ext.
Jack Armstrong
Oh yeah. Oh yeah. In fact, his, his brother Dennis Wilson said as much. He said, no, Brian is the Beach Boys. Yeah. He was their creative genius, their writer, their arranger. He produced and co produced everything they recorded. He just envisioned all the sounds and all the weirdness and innovation and all that. Like had the Beatles, for instance, when they heard Pet Sounds saying, oh my God, okay, we've, they've upped the ante. We've got to do something big.
Joe Getty
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
And they wrote sergeant Peppers.
Joe Getty
I had a few things I want to read from this New York Times piece that they did on it. They're big. They probably had this obituary in the can for quite a while. Right? But just some of this at the same time. The round face, soft spoken Mr. Wilson, who didn't surf, became one of pop's most gifted and idiosyncratic studio auteurs. Crafting complex and innovative productions that odd his peers. That ear. Bob Dylan once remarked, I mean, Jesus, he's got to will that to the Smithsonian. Mr. Wilson indulged his every eccentricity, no matter how expensive or fruitless, and his growing drug habit fueled paranoia and delusion. Recording a song called Fire, he outfitted studio musicians in toy Firefighters helmets and placed a smoldering bucket in their midst. When he later learned that a nearby building had burned down at about the same time as the session, he scrapped that track, Spooked by the thought that his studio witchcraft was responsible for the fire.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. He actually tried to destroy the master tapes for that song because he thought they were somehow magically causing fires.
Joe Getty
He spent much of his life trying to escape the yolks of two men. His abusive father and a controlling psychotherapist named Eugene Landy. Mr. Landy's unorthodox methods, which included monitoring Mr. Wilson 24 hours a day and padlocking his refrigerator. I need a snack. No. Were effective in nursing Mr. Wilson back to health during two periods of treatment in the 70s and 80s. Yet Mr. Landy also went into business with his patient, sharing copyrights or forcing his name onto the copyrights and taking a whole bunch of the money and writing credits with his from his songs.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
Joe Getty
Landy eventually came under the scrutiny of the California authorities and had to surrender his license after an intervention by Mr. Wilson's family. A court order also blocked landy from contact with Mr. Wilson. And he ran Brian's life for, like, 20 years or something. How horrifying is that?
Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
Joe Getty
Mr. Wilson. Brian Wilson spoke openly about his struggles with mental illness, including his experience with schizoaffective disorder and condition characterized by hallucinations and delusions. The condition led to the conservative ship granted by his business associates last year, surfer girl.
Jack Armstrong
Well, before we get past that, the whole the delusions thing. He had constant voices giving him terrible messages in his head, and he played music constantly to distract himself from the voices.
Joe Getty
Wow. Surfer girl, which was their first big hit, went to number seven in 1963. That's 62 years ago, was perhaps the first pop hit and ever written, arranged, produced, and sung by the same person. You know, it's common now. Not common, but people do it. But nobody'd ever done it before. His father had long tormented him physically and emotionally. And one form of punishment that left Brian Wilson. And he described many times his father would remove his glass eye and force his terrified son to stare into the empty socket. That's a sick f. That's a weird punishment. My dad was violent and cruel. He wrote in his biography. That's not a good story. Anyway, I. You know, if you're of a certain age, you've heard all these beach boys songs a million times, but perhaps on an AM radio, coming out of a little speaker in a car or at home, they've been remastered. Listen to them remastered on a good stereo. Whole different experience I found yesterday.
Jack Armstrong
Wow. Yeah. That'd be a treat. I'll have to do that.
Joe Getty
I didn't realize he basically did Good Vibrations while the whole band was on tour. He did the whole thing himself, more or less, while they were all gone.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. I'm not surprised.
Joe Getty
That's. That's quite amazing.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. An amazing guy, but a tragic story.
Joe Getty
Oh my God. Yeah. You don't want to be crazy. Even if it leads to that. It sounds horrible.
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Jack Armstrong
I'm calling Trump on you, you illegal mother.
Joe Getty
Say black woman in road rage at a Mexican dude. I'm calling Trump on you. You play it again.
Jack Armstrong
I'm calling Trump on you, you illegal mother. That's not gonna bring understanding among the people of America.
Joe Getty
No.
Jack Armstrong
That sort of rhetoric. No.
Joe Getty
Just came across this. You're about to talk about the aging, aging this and that. Axios is reporting more than half of Democratic reps, the Democratic Party, the House of Representatives is at. What did I see, 17% approval or something like that? Among Democrats. Among Democrats, more than half of the Democratic Reps who are 75 or older are running for reelection in the young people party. The people over 75, half of them are running for reelection. As opposed to saying, maybe we should get somebody a little younger. I mean, a lot of Democrats, they want a 35 year old or a 22 year old, not a, not an 80 year old.
Jack Armstrong
Well, I don't think Republicans want an 80 year old either.
Joe Getty
Honestly, you know, I didn't mean to talk about that. So I jump into my car yesterday and I flip on NPR because I don't know, I hate myself from a masochist or something. I mean, why would you do that? I get done doing this and I listen to npr, like to get a half assed annoying version of the news. I just did. I don't know what that's. But anyway, they were doing this story. Seniors are the fastest growing group of people experiencing homelessness. Using their terms. I don't say experiencing homelessness.
Jack Armstrong
I say drug addicts experiencing homelessness.
Joe Getty
Drug addicts who've made poor choices in their lives is generally what it is. But, and some of these stats are interesting, and I wondered if you had a reason better than theirs for why this is happening. First of all, in the 90s, the average age of a homeless person was 30. Now it's 50. Fairly recently, people aged 50 and older were about 10% of the homeless population. It is now half. It went from 10% to half.
Jack Armstrong
Wow.
Joe Getty
This according to them, and this might not be true. The trend is being driven by factors such as rising inflation. Yeah, that's what it is. Just hear the price of eggs is, screw it, I'm going to live under a bridge and do meth. Rising inflation.
Jack Armstrong
I'm shaking my head, mystified how anybody could say that with a straight face and think, oh, that'll land. Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
Joe Getty
All right, most of us, rising inflation meant, okay, instead of eating at the steak restaurant, I'll eat at Applebee's, or instead of eating an Applebee's, I'll eat at home or whatever.
Jack Armstrong
We didn't, we didn't become methads for the millionth time. You eliminate luxuries, you go cheaper, you get a roommate, you, you do 150 things before you end up in a tent under an overpass doing meth, riding.
Joe Getty
A kid's bicycle in the dark.
Jack Armstrong
Right.
Joe Getty
The trend is being driven by factors such as rising inflation, a lack of affordable housing, and challenges faced by older adults with disabilities. What a, what weak tea that is.
Jack Armstrong
Well, and where was that report When Joe Biden was pouring gasoline on the inflation fire. Npr, you just didn't get around to it.
Joe Getty
Good point. But assuming it is true that people 50 and over have gone from 10% to over half, what's your explanation?
Jack Armstrong
Part of it is the and progressives did this. They outlawed those residence hotels where people would pay a monthly fee to live in a room, generally a shared bathroom down the hall, they'd have a hot plate or whatever. It was decided by the Democratic Party that those were not acceptable living conditions for people and we should shut them down. But they didn't provide a useful alternative. I mean, other than here's a 10 apartments in LA that are going to cost $1.8 million each and will never be done. That's a factor among your older alcoholics and people with borderline mental conditions and that sort of thing.
Joe Getty
I'm just spitballing here a term that I find discussing. I wish we'd come up with a better term for randomly going through ideas off the top of my head that I might not actually believe myself.
Jack Armstrong
Mucus pitching. No.
Joe Getty
Yeah, I'm just sputum hurling. I'm fecal guessing here, but what. Oh, why are we using body excrement as a. I don't know. Any chance that the younger crowd does the craziest hardcore fentanyl stuff, the older crowd stays away from it, and so many younger people have just died. Any of that?
Jack Armstrong
No, I don't think so. I think it's more likely that, I mean, addiction to hard drugs is skyrocketed. I mean, skyrocketed compared, you know, we've talked about when Nixon started the DEA because there were what, 8,000 overdose deaths around the country or I, I remember the number was shockingly small. And then, you know, a few years ago we had115,000 people.
Joe Getty
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Jack Armstrong
A single year.
Joe Getty
The great war on drugs.
Jack Armstrong
I'm sorry. And, and you don't, you don't just do that, those drugs for a number of years and say, you know, that was a crazy period of my life, but I'm moving on now. Your brain is toasted. So I think a lot of those older homeless people are, are drug casualties, I would suspect. Although, I don't know, I would like to know the answer.
Joe Getty
So it could be possibly good news then, that there aren't. It's kind of like our aging population of, you know, we're not replacing older people with younger workers because we don't have any young people. Is it just. There aren't as Many young people getting into the super hard drugs and ended up on the street and the crowd that was already there is just aging. Is that possible?
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, that feels a little quick to me. Well, it's gotta be something. I don't think there is no validity to the inflation and housing thing because housing is extremely expensive virtually all over the country.
Joe Getty
But try to be the 99% of people that have shelter figure out a way. And, and you know, and as usual, I drove by lots of street people on the way to work today. There's no getting around it. They're all drug addicts. So don't be a drug addict would be a good start.
Jack Armstrong
Oh yeah, absolutely. Yeah. But as always, I'm in favor of separating the transient drug addicts from the people NPR quite dishonestly implies is everybody. But there is that group of unfortunate people who can't make their way and can't pay for housing.
Joe Getty
Joe's all compassion there but for the grace of God, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, I would, we. I remember when they did the big study in Seattle, it was 90% of more drug addicts. We would have plenty of money for the people who actually have mental illness or, you know, fall through the cracks, whatever other way. We'd have plenty of money for those people. If you somehow fix the drug problem.
Jack Armstrong
Which is to me damn near proof. I mean, like we need proof that the Gavin's Newsom of the world, the homeless industrial complex, they are about making the money. They are about enriching themselves. Now there are some people of good conscience and soft skull who are involved in that. And they don't understand that they are part of a scam. They think they're doing the right thing. But the people on top who are distributing the money and making the money, they know 100% what they're doing. If they really cared, they would have years and years and years ago. Because we have been shouting this for a couple of decades now. If you don't specify the different groups of the so called homeless, you are, well, you're perpetrating a scam. If you don't separate the drug addicts from the people, the poor, unfortunate, mentally ill, autistic, handicapped, whatever, who just can't make enough money to get by. If you don't do that, you are a liar and a scumbag or a moron.
Joe Getty
It's mostly a drug problem. And so if you don't start there, yeah, it's crazy. You know what's the most effective? I think, effort to make people realize the whole drug Thing I see this floating around social media. I wish there was. I wish I passed a billboard of this every single day that my kids would see. Or the. Although they see enough homeless people. Boy, if you grow up in a one of your blue cities or blue states where you see a lot of homeless people, I would love to know in the future how many of those kids end up doing drugs. Because my kids view of what drugs do for you is, is that. And it doesn't look good.
Jack Armstrong
But I think every parent ought to drive by these camps full of transient drug addicts with their kids and say this is drug. This is what drugs get you.
Joe Getty
Hard drugs. That's what I said to my son Sam when we. I purposely walked through the Tenderloin in San Francisco. Just a corner of it to. To see it. Like none of these people started with this in mind. They thought they were having a good time on a Saturday night watching a band or something. But anytime you see those timelines, our friend Jesse, who emails the show a lot, has one on his Twitter feed or whatever. Your first picture, your first mug shot when you're 16 and kind of a handsome young man. And then your next one and your next one and the next one as you go through the years and now you got less teeth than you look worse and you've aged 30 years but you're still in your 20s and all that sort of stuff. And with the women, the same thing. It's fantastic. I think, I think that's very, very powerful.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. These hotties who turn into toothless scabby hags at 32. Yeah. You want to be a scabby hag, do you?
Joe Getty
No, that's not a good term. Scabby hag.
Jack Armstrong
That's what makes it such a good term.
Joe Getty
Yeah, I guess.
Jack Armstrong
That's so awful.
Joe Getty
Let's not use that in case. Unless. Keep that in your holster unless you really are trying to make a point. It was good here, but I just, I don't want to hear.
Jack Armstrong
Listen, you scabby hag.
Joe Getty
Yeah, I don't want it to be catch on as a.
Jack Armstrong
No, no, indeed. That would be ungentlemanly. Among other problems.
Joe Getty
Yeah, you know who's. Who's the scabby hagging? Accounting, you know, I don't want it to become one of those.
Jack Armstrong
Oh Lord. No, you're right. It's very harsh when you don't see it coming.
Joe Getty
We will finish strong. Next Armstrong and Getty.
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The President warned that any protests on Saturday would be met with force. Can you clarify what kind of protest President Trump does support or find acceptable?
Jack Armstrong
The President absolutely supports peaceful protests.
Katie Green
He supports the First Amendment. He supports the right of Americans to.
Jack Armstrong
Make their voices heard.
Katie Green
He does not support violence of any kind.
Jack Armstrong
He does not support assaulting law enforcement officers who are simply trying to do their job. It's very clear for the President what he supports and what he does not. Unfortunately for Democrats, that line has not been made clear and they've allowed this unrest and this violence to continue. And the President has had to step in.
Unknown
One question.
Joe Getty
So if there were peaceful protests on.
Jack Armstrong
Saturday for the military parade, President Trump would allow that? Ms. Of course President supports peaceful protests. What a stupid question.
Joe Getty
It is a stupid question. I would have, I would have like, wanted to Plant that. If I was a Trump guy. Here's this giant fat softball to hit out of the park.
Unknown
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Joe Getty
What did you think? Did you think you were going to catch him in a trap? No, Donald Trump does not believe in any protests of any kind.
Jack Armstrong
Not for his big parade. No. We'll be cracking heads. First Amendment will die tomorrow at noon. He might not like it, but. Yeah, what a stupid question is right.
Joe Getty
Trump just did an hour plus press conference. Remember the old guy who did like one in four years? Anyway, he said this.
Jack Armstrong
But I will say this. Look, I want them to go away saying how great our country is and how great our military is. And I was making all these calls for some reason. I spoke to like four different places. Sir, are you celebrating? And I said, you know, we won World War II and World War I, right.
Joe Getty
We want them. And yet we're the only country that.
Jack Armstrong
Doesn'T celebrate everybody celebrating except us. And I said we should celebrate, too.
Joe Getty
What if there are protests?
Jack Armstrong
Well, quash them violently during the big parade. Yeah, I don't know that we need to celebrate winning World War I. Honestly. Fair amount of water under the bridge.
Joe Getty
I just, I don't. As I've said on the big military parade on Saturday, I lean against, but not strongly. This is not an issue, I think is that big a deal. I just would like a better understanding of why we haven't done it in the past. There's some reason we never did it before.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Like I said earlier, I just think it was kind of a. We're not a militaristic power. We're a friendly power that wants to do business with a incredibly capable and powerful military. But we're not gonna. We're not gonna walk into every room and say, I could whoop your ass by. I mean, whether it's a dental appointment or a job interview, it's just no way to behave.
Joe Getty
Are you here for a cleaning?
Jack Armstrong
I could kick your ass if I wanted to. Yes. You know, I've got a little pain here on the upper right. A little cold sensitivity. Yeah, I think it's probably a version of that, honestly. But again, I just. And I don't feel very strongly about it either way either. I hate. I like the idea better before I heard Trump explain it, which is not uncommon. I think our military, the men and women, the gear, the innovation, the cohesion, the training, all of it is just awe inspiring. I think it's amazing. And I love the idea of American kids seeing that on display. So there's a real pro to the idea.
Joe Getty
So it's June 14th, Flag Day Saturday. The same day the no kings, no crowns protest is being organized nationwide. 1100 different spots. They're hoping to. They're hoping to take back the flag and patriotism from the evil Republicans with the no kings, no crowns protest. I have no idea if this is going to be a big. USA Today says it's going to be the biggest protest this year.
Jack Armstrong
Okay. Which super.
Joe Getty
Make it pretty big, actually.
Jack Armstrong
And then what?
Joe Getty
I don't know if I'd go in and say, I could whoop your ass, by the way, to somebody who's about to have that sharp hook in your mouth in a vulnerable position.
Jack Armstrong
That's the point. Exactly. That's no way to behave. It's final thoughts. I'm strong again.
Joe Getty
It's final thoughts.
Jack Armstrong
It's final thoughts. I'm strong again.
Joe Getty
Get ready with Katie Green and Michael Angela.
Jack Armstrong
That's the last thing Brian Wilson recorded before his death.
Joe Getty
Yeah, it was during his crazy period that he wrote that. Here is your host for Final Thoughts, Joe Getty.
Jack Armstrong
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew to wrap up the show. There is Michelangelo pressing the buttons. Michael, final thought. Speaking of the Beach Boys, that was a great childhood memory.
Joe Getty
My parents, they would drive us kids.
Jack Armstrong
Around in the car and we'd be in the back seat and they'd be singing to the Beach Boys and doing the whole harmonies and.
Joe Getty
Oh, that's cool.
Jack Armstrong
Well, as little kids, though, we were kind of embarrassed about it, you know, seeing mom and dad enjoy themselves like that. Right, right.
Joe Getty
It's from Vacation Mock. Yeah. Bert.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Oh, boy. Yeah. Katie Green, our esteemed newswoman, has a final thought. Katie.
Unknown
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Joe Getty
About you guys, but I cannot wait to get the debut album from Joe.
Jack Armstrong
Getty and the Scabby Hag.
Joe Getty
Oh, my God.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
Joe Getty
Yeah.
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Joe Getty
I gotta get a hold of the Boy Scout leaders. I'm part of the driving team to drive from Northern California to Long beach for this big Boy Scout camp. With the possible ICE Parade protests and this thing that surely will be a big deal in la, the no crowns thing. There's not a chance that the highways aren't going to be blocked off, is there? We'll see.
Jack Armstrong
My final thought, like, my thought early in the show was, we need to hear more C bombs dropped. Not that C bomb, Congress. Oh, why is nobody talking about Congress passing immigration law? And we, as a country, following the law.
Joe Getty
Geez, I heard you say that seems.
Jack Armstrong
Like a decent starting place.
Joe Getty
I heard you say the first part. I wish you would have clarified. I just been walking around the office.
Jack Armstrong
C C, C, C C. Oh no, no, no, no. Congress is the word.
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We'll see tomorrow. God bless America. Armstrong and Getty.
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Joe Getty
Okay.
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Joe Getty
That first trick would be cool. I'd pay to see that. On that high note, thank you all very much.
Jack Armstrong
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Release Date: June 12, 2025
Host: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty
Description: The official, On-Demand podcast of The Armstrong & Getty Show! Accept no substitutes!
"Armstrong & Getty On Demand" kicked off their episode "Listen Here You Scabby Hag" from the George Washington Broadcast Center at [03:17]. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty immediately dive into the day's headlines with their trademark blend of humor and candid commentary.
Middle East Tensions and US Policy:
The hosts discuss the United States' strategic withdrawal, noting, "The US has begun evacuating non-essential staff from embassies and military bases throughout the Middle East as tensions rise with Iran" ([05:23]). Armstrong speculates on potential military actions, saying, "We could see explosions at the nuclear site in Tehran, possibly with Israel's active involvement" ([05:31]).
Trade Talks with China:
Armstrong highlights Trump's announcement regarding the conclusion of trade talks with China: "Trump announced a successful end to trade talks with China today" ([05:47]). They critique the negotiation tactics, with Joe Getty adding, "If you're familiar with sales techniques, that's Trump doing something I'm sure he's done many times" ([05:53]).
Homelessness and Aging Population:
A significant portion of the conversation revolves around the alarming rise in homelessness among seniors. Getty references an NPR report stating, "In the 90s, the average age of a homeless person was 30. Now it's 50. Recently, people aged 50 and older have increased from 10% to over half of the homeless population" ([30:07]). Armstrong disputes the NPR explanation, arguing, "Housing is extremely expensive virtually all over the country" ([34:54]). They further debate the root causes, with Armstrong asserting, "It's mostly a drug problem. A lot of those older homeless people are drug casualties" ([33:50]).
Political Figures and Elections:
The duo doesn't shy away from critiquing prominent political figures. They discuss Andrew Cuomo's mayoral bid in New York, with Getty sarcastically stating, "Andrew Cuomo is the best choice. He's better than a communist" ([08:01]). Armstrong expands, "Brandon Johnson in Chicago is a union hack, a Marxist, a moron" ([09:00]). Their commentary underscores a broader critique of Democratic policies and representatives.
News of Brian Wilson's Passing:
At [17:35], Joe Getty shares the breaking news of Brian Wilson's death: "News broke while we were on the air yesterday that Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys had died at age 82" ([17:35]). This leads into a heartfelt tribute to the legendary musician.
Brian Wilson's Legacy and Struggles:
The hosts delve deep into Wilson's life, highlighting his musical genius and personal battles. Armstrong reflects, "He was the Beach Boys to a great extent. His brother Dennis Wilson said, no, Brian is the Beach Boys" ([19:13]). They discuss his innovative contributions, such as creating "Good Vibrations" largely on his own while the band was on tour ([23:58]). Getty adds, "Brian Wilson was one of pop's most gifted and idiosyncratic studio auteurs" ([20:22]).
Personal Turmoil and Mental Health:
The conversation shifts to Wilson's struggles with mental illness and his tumultuous relationship with his father and psychiatrist Eugene Landy. Getty narrates from a New York Times obituary, "His father had long tormented him physically and emotionally. One form of punishment was forcing Brian to stare into the empty socket of his glass eye" ([22:41]). They discuss Landy's unethical practices, including taking songwriting credits and financial gain from Wilson's work.
Military Parades vs. Protests:
Towards the end of the episode, Armstrong and Getty discuss President Trump's stance on protests related to military parades. Armstrong states, "The President absolutely supports peaceful protests" ([44:13]), but later controversially suggests, "We'll be cracking heads. First Amendment will die tomorrow at noon" ([45:07]).
Upcoming Protests:
Getty brings up the "No Kings, No Crowns" protest scheduled for Flag Day, expressing concern over potential clashes with military parades. "They're hoping to take back the flag and patriotism from the evil Republicans with the No Kings, No Crowns protest" ([47:33]).
Personal Anecdotes and Humor:
The hosts sprinkle personal stories and humor throughout, such as Getty recounting his son's excitement over an Omaha Steaks delivery ([53:32]) and Armstrong joking about turning into a "scabby hag" ([38:47]).
As the episode wraps up, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty share their final thoughts, blending serious commentary with their signature humor. Armstrong muses about the importance of congressional action on immigration laws, while Getty reflects on the challenges facing the nation.
Armstrong on Trump's Trade Talks: "If you're familiar with sales techniques, that's Trump doing something I'm sure he's done many times." ([05:55])
Getty on Homelessness Trends: "First of all, in the 90s, the average age of a homeless person was 30. Now it's 50." ([30:07])
Armstrong on Brian Wilson's Genius: "His later career was really innovative, much like how the Beatles upped the ante with Sergeant Pepper’s after Pet Sounds." ([19:01])
Getty on Protests and Parades: "Trump just did an hour plus press conference. Remember the old guy who did like one in four years? Anyway, he said this." ([44:37])
"Listen Here You Scabby Hag" provided listeners with a blend of sharp political analysis, heartfelt tributes, and the unique comedic interplay between Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. From dissecting current events and political dynamics to honoring the legacy of Brian Wilson, the episode offered a comprehensive and engaging discourse for those both familiar and unfamiliar with the show.