Little Tiny Cowboys With Little Baby Cattle

Summary

Armstrong & Getty On Demand

Episode: Little Tiny Cowboys With Little Baby Cattle
Release Date: May 1, 2025
Host/Authors: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty
Producer: iHeartPodcasts

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1. Political Commentary and National Security

Departure of National Security Advisor Mike Walls
The episode opens with Joe Getty expressing skepticism about the media's focus on Washington, D.C.'s high school gossip. He delves into the recent ousting of National Security Advisor Mike Walls after just 101 days in office. Getty speculates whether Walls' departure is tied to his pro-Ukraine stance, contrasting it with former President Trump's policies.

"I just wonder about that. But here he is. Just a couple of hours ago, he surely had heard that there were already news blurbs saying he was going to be fired."
— Joe Getty [00:52]

Leadership in the Military
Brian joins the conversation, lauding the current administration's leadership, highlighting efforts to modernize the army with advancements in counter-drone technology and electronic warfare. He emphasizes the commitment to supporting troops by cutting through bureaucracy and consolidating unnecessary commands.

"They are talking about modernizing the army counter drone electronic warfare, getting our troops the things they need... They are all gas, Brian. And this is exactly what our modern force needs."
— Joe Getty [01:40]

Trump's Strategy on Mineral Deals and Ukraine
Jack Armstrong discusses the recent signing of a minerals deal, pondering Trump's strategy. He questions whether the deal is aimed at leveraging mineral resources to bolster support for Ukraine or ensuring a vested interest that deters Russian aggression.

"To what extent is it, hey, they've got minerals, they need us. I'm going to get some. Get something out of them."
— Jack Armstrong [03:44]

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2. Social Issues and Community Building

Conversion of Churches to Mosques in Florida
The hosts feature a concerning segment about a Florida imam who publicly discusses converting churches into mosques and schools into Islamic institutions. The imam's rhetoric suggests an intention to alter the community's religious landscape significantly.

"We bought three churches so far, converted them to masjids... Years ago, they invaded the Muslim world... Today we bring the favor back, turn their churches into masjids..."
— Imam [04:45]

Jack critiques the imam's message, drawing parallels to evangelical efforts to convert others, but highlighting the political implications of Islam as a system of governance.

"And that is a vow quite specifically to overthrow our form of government and the Constitution."
— Jack Armstrong [06:11]

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3. Economic Concerns and Consumer Behavior

McDonald's Sales Decline
Joe Getty reports on McDonald's experiencing its steepest U.S. same-store sales drop since the COVID-19 pandemic, attributing it to cautious consumer behavior amidst economic anxiety and fears of inflation or recession.

"US same store sales plunged 3.6%, which the train the chain attributed to an increasingly cautious consumer."
— Joe Getty [07:05]

Rising Costs and Consumer Spending
The conversation shifts to personal anecdotes about rising food prices, with Jack recounting a $19 patty melt and discussing broader inflation concerns affecting everyday purchases.

"I know. I'm shocked every time... two cheeseburgers and fries. And it was $15, which seems like a lot to me."
— Joe Getty [09:36]

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4. Media Critique and Immigration Narratives

ABC News' Coverage of Deportations
Jack Armstrong criticizes ABC News for its portrayal of deported Venezuelan migrants, arguing that the media emphasizes humanizing elements while omitting disturbing details about the individuals' criminal backgrounds.

"The attack angle here is not that illegal aliens got sent back to their own countries... the real point is to push the idea that the Trump administration is stealing kids from their parents."
— Jack Armstrong [26:44]

He further highlights discrepancies in reporting, suggesting ABC News is selectively presenting information to favor a particular narrative.

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5. Cultural Observations and Generational Gaps

Understanding 'NPC' in Modern Slang
The hosts explore the term "NPC" (Non-Player Character), explaining its derogatory use among younger generations to describe someone perceived as lacking individuality or personality.

"NPCs are all the. Just like, they don't. They all dress the same. They have no personality."
— Joe Getty [28:33]

Jack reflects on societal conformity, comparing these behaviors to observing a different species with unique rituals.

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6. Business News and Elon Musk's Leadership at Tesla

Speculation on Replacing Elon Musk
Joe Getty introduces a discussion on rumors about Tesla's board seeking to replace CEO Elon Musk. The conversation covers potential impacts on the company's valuation and brand identity, given Musk's integral role.

"The Financial Times said the Tesla board says, no, that's not true. Although certainly could be true... who knows?"
— Joe Getty [30:30]

Jack contemplates the unprecedented nature of such a move, emphasizing Musk's unique association with Tesla.

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7. Light-Hearted Segments and Final Thoughts

Humorous Anecdotes and Crew Interactions
Towards the end, the hosts share personal stories and jokes, including mishaps in personal relationships and creative projects like booze necklaces. They wrap up with final thoughts from the crew, blending humor with reflections on the episode's topics.

"So somebody gave me this tip on the text line. I've never done it before because I got this lingering cough. Ask your doctor for inhalers."
— Joe Getty [34:05]

"I’d like to apologize for making light of the British lad who won the national seagull imitating contest."
— Jack Armstrong [34:28]

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Key Takeaways

• Political Instability: The brief tenure of Mike Walls as National Security Advisor raises questions about internal policy conflicts, especially concerning Ukraine support.

• Military Modernization: There is commendation for efforts to modernize the U.S. military infrastructure and support systems for troops.

• Cultural Shifts: Concerns are voiced over religious conversions in communities and the potential impact on American governance and societal norms.

• Economic Anxiety: Rising inflation and cautious consumer spending are highlighted, with specific reference to large corporations like McDonald's feeling the pinch.

• Media Bias: The hosts critique mainstream media's portrayal of immigration issues, suggesting a bias that overlooks significant negative aspects.

• Generational Disconnects: The discussion on modern slang like "NPC" underscores the cultural and communicative gaps between generations.

• Business Leadership Dynamics: Speculation around Elon Musk's potential replacement at Tesla illustrates the complexities of leadership roles in high-profile companies.

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Notable Quotes:

"We want this system of laws and governance, not the one we got."
— Jack Armstrong [06:11]

"US same store sales plunged 3.6%... to an increasingly cautious consumer."
— Joe Getty [07:05]

"NPCs are all the. Just like, they don't. They all dress the same. They have no personality."
— Joe Getty [28:33]

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This episode of Armstrong & Getty On Demand offers a blend of political analysis, social commentary, and light-hearted banter, providing listeners with insights into current events, economic challenges, and cultural trends from the perspectives of Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

Transcript

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[Jack Armstrong]

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

[Joe Getty]

So we're not big on the whole gossip, high school nature of Washington, D.C. i don't care about people's comings and goings in retirement and they'll talk about them all day long in cable news and I just don't freaking care. I can't believe they think anybody does care. But I, I do think this is kind of interesting that the National Security Advisor is out. Mike Walls is out after 101 days, which ain't very long. Um, and I'm, I'm mostly wondering, does it have anything to do with his. He, he was way more of a we need to support Ukraine guy than Trump is. And I just wonder about that. But here he is. Just a couple of hours ago, he surely had heard that there were already news blurbs saying he was going to be fired. So I don't know if this is him scrambling for his job or is his exit interview or what.

[Brian]

I'm so excited about this. This is leadership at its finest, led by our commander in chief who loves the troops and they love him. Secretary Hegseth, leading from the front. Secretary Driscoll. Army Secretary that, that you had on earlier. I mean, again, we're 100 days in and they are talking about modernizing the army counter drone electronic warfare, getting our troops the things they need, rapidly cutting through the bureaucracy, consolidating a lot of these commands and headquarters that we don't need. They are all gas, Brian. And this is exactly what our modern force needs.

[Joe Getty]

I think that was a guy thinking he could still butter up Trump and save his job. I don't know. But I was just looking at Molly Hemingway, who I don't always agree with her, tweeting out that the news coverage on this is mostly about Mike Walz wanted to support Ukraine. Trump doesn't. This is a sign that Trump, you know, is abandoning Ukraine, et cetera. Et cetera. And she pointed out he did add a hostile journalist to a private top secret war plan chat. It's not a minor thing. And y'all are leaving this out all of a sudden. You know, at the time it was a big deal and now you're acting like it's clearly about the policy and not about this. So I don't know what it's about, but that, that was a fairly incompetent thing to do. And then his excuses, which were so horrible when he came out, I got sucked. You know how names get sucked into your phone and what are you talking about?

[Jack Armstrong]

Right, well. And as I mentioned earlier, Trump is proud enough that he's not going to get rid of somebody because the left wing media is telling him he has to. He's going to wait for a couple of months and say, no, this has nothing to do with that. I've just made the decision.

[Joe Getty]

I think some of the proof will be in who they replace walls with. And if it's a hardcore anti Ukraine, Zelensky needs to throw on a suit guy, then it's a change from what he had. Certainly.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. I'm really intrigued by the signing of the minerals deal and the final form it takes and what Trump's strategy actually is. To what extent is it, hey, they've got minerals, they need us. I'm going to get some. Get something out of them. Which I find a bit of appalling given the stakes or if it's a. We're going to be so invested in Ukraine and make them wealthy and Russia is not going to dare attack because we're going to have lots and lots of interests there.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, we're going to people and trucks and money at stake. So. Hey, Vladimir, knock it off. I don't know, we'll see.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah, Totally different topic. Speaking of conquest, though, I mentioned this earlier in the show, then forgot to. To pay it off and I apologize for that. But this is a Florida imam giving a sermon, or whatever you call that there in the mosque. And, and the context being, and I think he makes this clear that they'd recently acquired several churches and turned them into mosques. It's 90 and 91, Michael, play them one at a time.

[Imam]

We bought three churches so far, converted them to masjids, and now we have one. We are buying with a school to make it because we have to serve the same people, the people who were part of that community. One day they will be Muslims. So we'll make it into a masjid and an Islamic school for our children and their children, Insha'Allah. Years ago, they invaded the Muslim world and they built missionary schools and destroyed Islamic schools and masjids. Today we bring the favor back, turn their churches into masjids and their schools into Islamic schools, bring the light of Islam to here.

[Joe Getty]

Is he picturing more of a there will be so many people flowing in that are Muslims, or is he picturing converting people to Islam?

[Jack Armstrong]

Seems pretty clear he's talking about converting them. Let's play that last clip. It's short.

[Imam]

This is an election year, but we're not going to be happy with either candidate. We have to be happy when Islam becomes the best candidate for us. I ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, to give Islam the victory in this country.

[Jack Armstrong]

So the difference between that in a Baptist preacher standing up and saying we ought to convert everybody to Christianity to save their souls, blah, blah, blah, is that Islam is a system of law and governance. Now, not everybody practices that way. Some people just practice it as a personal faith. And that's fine. I have no truck with those people, as they say. But there are a lot of people, including this guy who hints rather strongly that no, we want Islam to be the system of governance in this place and give us enough time and we'll get her done.

[Joe Getty]

Wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

And that is a vow quite specifically to overthrow our form of government and the Constitution. That's not paranoia, that's just fact. We want this system of laws and governance, not the one we got.

[Joe Getty]

Are you suggesting that somewhere near a crime or violation of something.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, he isn't advocating for the forceful overthrow of the United States government, so probably not. It is legal under our First Amendment and it's practically unique on earth and wonderful, in my opinion, that you can walk around saying we ought to get rid of the Constitution. We need to have a vote, and here are my reasons why. And who's with me?

[Joe Getty]

That's something to keep an eye on. And one more thing.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, yeah. Now for the next 500 years. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

[Joe Getty]

One more thing I wanted to throw in. I think Katie mentioned this earlier. McDonald's has suffered its steepest US same store sales drop since COVID when people couldn't get out and about heightened anxiety around economics. US same store sales plunged 3.6%, which the train the chain attributed to an increasingly cautious consumer. It's the worst drop since the beginning of the COVID pandemic, which is a little troubling as Americans grow more fearful that sweeping tariffs could reheat inflation or even trigger a recession. The world's largest fast Food chain says it's noticing a broader hit to traffic. I don't know if I believe that.

[Jack Armstrong]

Or not or a lot you do. So you think a lot of people.

[Joe Getty]

Are eating out less.

[Jack Armstrong]

Even for McDonald's, just financial caution in general is on the rise. I was just reading about how America's biggest home builders have seen a very, very weak spring season. And that's when they do 40% of their annual sales. And it's about halfway over, but they're down from 2 to 15%, depending on who you ask. And they're offering all sorts of incentives and rebates and just trying to get people to sign.

[Joe Getty]

The CEO for McDonald's said it's no longer just low income consumers pulling back, but also middle income consumers who are weighed down by the cumulative impact of inflation and heightened anxiety. And before this, McDonald's said it plans to focus on its McValue menu and extend its five dollar meal deal. And also the very popular chicken thingies. Some sort of chicken strip thing, which I actually saw last night, as in the drive through McDonald's with my son after his volleyball game. And he got two cheeseburgers. Not quarter Pounders or Big Macs, just a little cheeseburger. Two cheeseburgers and fries. And it was $15, which seems like a lot to me. Wow. Two cheeseburgers, small fry, 15 bucks bevrage. No, no beverage. I know, that's what I thought.

[Jack Armstrong]

I understand inflation. I do. I studied it at the university level, but holy crap.

[Joe Getty]

I know. I'm shocked every time. So.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow.

[Joe Getty]

So maybe people are pulling back because things are just too expensive combined with. I think it's going to get even worse.

[Jack Armstrong]

I realize this is an old guy thing to say, but Judy and I were going out for what we have the other day, breakfast, and she ordered like a, you know, a patty melt. Sand. It's essentially a burger with, you know, sauteed onions on it. And it was really good. But it was $19 or something.

[Joe Getty]

Right? Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

Like a 19 patty melt.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

What's going on here?

[Joe Getty]

I know.

[Jack Armstrong]

Start raising cattle. I don't have room for like cattle cattle. So it's probably going to be those little miniature Irish cattle.

[Joe Getty]

Cute.

[Jack Armstrong]

And I will probably hire little people to be my cowboys.

[Joe Getty]

Wow. Little tiny cowboys with little cattle. That'd be very cute.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's my plan. It's, you know, drawing board stage.

[Joe Getty]

That'll be cute though. Those would be some great Instagram posts.

[Jack Armstrong]

And if I get hungry, I'll just, you know, whack one of them little Irish cows and make me some burgers. Are you going to say you whack.

[Joe Getty]

One of the little people?

[Jack Armstrong]

What? What? What? No, I'm not a lunatic.

[Joe Getty]

Right. That wouldn't be correct.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right.

[Joe Getty]

We have more on the waist here.

[Katie]

Armstrong and Getty, a dog food brand, recently announced that they're looking for a summer intern to smell dog's breath in order to evaluate the effectiveness of of their new dental product. In case you're looking for a career where AI will never replace you.

[Joe Getty]

Wow. I gotta smell a dog's breath and determine whether it's better or worse.

[Jack Armstrong]

I do that for free right now. So you know, what the hell? If I can get paid for it.

[Joe Getty]

Why not my dog, my. Our pug has horrible breath. I really should get a second opinion because the vet said, well, he's got, you know, he got some teeth that need pulled. This teeth and that tooth and that right there is going to be like $2,000 or like that.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. Gum problems. Yeah, we need to put them under and blah, blah, blah. Yeah, it can be just breathtaking bills. Yes. Katie.

[Katie Greener]

I would, I would say do it.

[Jack Armstrong]

It.

[Joe Getty]

I ain't paying $2,000 to get a dog's teeth pulled. Ain't gonna freaking happen. For those of you who do it, good for you. But I ain't doing it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Label this segment of the podcast. Jack neglects his animals. I'm kidding.

[Joe Getty]

Not a ch.

[Jack Armstrong]

Can't even smile when it goes to parties because it's ashamed of its teeth.

[Joe Getty]

It's got a stigma.

[Katie Greener]

I don't neglect my dog. And when I had to have her teeth pulled, it totally took care of the bad breath problem.

[Joe Getty]

Well, fantastic.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. Back. She just needs his. His teeth brushed. He almost never does that.

[Joe Getty]

I bug him every one of these green things. It'll make your breath better. Or not. Don't breathe on me.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's put Scope in his water bowl. It'll be fine. So this is really quite amazing and life affirming story. And it's the sort of thing that 60 Minutes used to do before they sucked. There is a, a Japanese town that like a lot of towns in Japan is shrinking and aging and you've got a few. You got a decent number of school kids, but they don't know the older folks around town and the older folks don't know the kids and they don't interact with the kids. And somebody for some reason thought that was unfortunate. We're losing our sense of community in this town. And so they invented, you know, your Pokemon cards, for instance, or you Know superhero sports cards. You got all sorts of role playing card games. So these people invented a role playing card card game featuring real people from the village, specifically all sorts of middle aged and older guys.

[Joe Getty]

What a cool idea.

[Jack Armstrong]

Who. And this is the part that touches my heart a little bit. They are smart businessmen, well worthy of admiring or emulating folks who behave with great bravery in the Japanese military. Scientists with great brains and creativity. And they, they have their, their actual picture on the front in kind of dramatic form, then a different picture on the back. But they have like different skills or powers based on these guys actual abilities in life. And it's become this enormous hit. There are 22 of them. They include Mr. Honda, the former head of the local fire brigade, who is skilled in first aid and rescue work. Soba chef Mr. Takeshita, who teaches noodle making classes. Mr. Kitamura, who's never encountered a broken electrical appliance he couldn't fix. And Mr. Fuji, a former prison correctional officer who now works as a volunteer driver for older residents. And these kids play the card game and you know, they play a Mr. Fuji, but they might overcome it with a Mr. Kitamura who, with his ability to fix things and you know, his technical know how and all. And it's brought all the kids and the older fellows together and they now all greet each other on the streets and it's crazy. People even ask the old guys for autographs.

[Joe Getty]

That's interesting.

[Jack Armstrong]

Isn't that nutty?

[Joe Getty]

There's a guy who moved away from where I live a couple of years ago and I'd known him for years in a different capacity, but it's not like I ever asked him, tell me your life story. But after he moved away, I became aware that he was like. He wrote for the San Francisco Chronicle for a while and then he was just all these really interesting things.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

That I just never knew. And I, I don't know, maybe, maybe people should brag slash explain their, their, their, their lives more.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, you know, I've, I've had that same thought lately. I live in a community, neighborhood, whatever. That's, that's, it's a good range of ages, but it definitely includes some retired people and some older folks. And um, and, and when somebody passes on, you know, we'll get a notice with an obituary. And time after time I see the obituary and think, I wish I'd known this stuff. I just sought the guy out and asked him about this or that or the other, what we have in common or, or whatever. And, and I've you know, I've brought this up to a couple of people without any satisfactory result or idea, but can we do this somehow? Is there some form of doing this before people croak?

[Joe Getty]

Right. It's always the person with nothing interesting in their past that tells you all about something they did.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right, Right. And you know people, this might be.

[Joe Getty]

One of the reasons that they did cool things. The interesting people tend to keep it to themselves.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, right. And, or, you know, if somebody's retired, for instance, they're not going to walk around saying, you know, 20 years ago, yeah, I was this and I did this and that and I lived where you lived. Probably not. And I don't know, it's kind of a shame. I don't know, maybe we'd start the trading cards. I don't know.

[Joe Getty]

Speaking of kind of that sort of thing, I want to explain what an NPC is before we get done today. How much time we got, Michael? We're about done, right? Yeah.

[Michaelangelo]

30 seconds or.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I'll explain what an NPC is later. My son and his friends throw it around as a term regularly, but it's kind of funny and worth knowing if somebody calls you that plus old what's.

[Jack Armstrong]

His face, the ms.13 guy deported, they ought to bring back the court is real rule, blah, blah, blah. And the. The case of the fellow with the two year old and the four year old ripped away from their mother by, by Trump's cruelties. The truth on that and a look at how incredibly egregiously inaccurate the media coverage has been. Cool.

[Joe Getty]

I want to see all that. That's some good stuff. I'm gonna stick around. I was planning on leaving, but I'm gonna stick around Armstrong and Getty for discussion later. As I see it's getting a lot of attention. Is Bill Belichick pleased that his relationship has gone like, you know, everyone has heard about it by now. Is this like making him happy or is he kind of, kind of trying to keep this on the down low?

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, it is like the subject of national snickering. And. Or is it like the old joke.

[Joe Getty]

You know, the old joke with the punchline is I'm telling everybody. You know, is it like that?

[Jack Armstrong]

Exactly. I don't know. So Stephen Miller was in the press room recently at the White House and he was lighting up the press for their awful coverage of immigration stuff. And. And we edited it out. He's talking about a young girl who was killed by an illegal immigrant and how. Well, how the coverage is completely stilted and unfair. Go ahead. We'll, we'll play a sample of it.

[Stephen Miller]

It is a sad reflection on the state of our media and many of the outlets represented in this room that you obsessively try to shill for this Ms. 13 terrorists. Well, no coverage occurred in your papers about any of the Americans that were raped and tortured and murdered by the illegals that Biden was importing into our country. And each and every one of you that sides over and over again with these Ms. 13 terrorists to the extent that you have the financial means to do so, you all choose to live in condos or homes or houses as far away from these kinds of gang bangers as you possibly can. If I offered any one of you a rent free home with no taxes to pay in any of these gang neighborhoods and I said your neighbors are Ms. 13 terrorists or Mexican mafia or Sinaloa cartel or train, I couldn't pay you to live there. But yet you with your coverage are trying to force innocent Americans to have these people as their neighbors and that one day their daughter may be abducted from their home and raped and murdered. So you're not gonna get an ounce of sympathy from this administration or President Trump for the terrorists who've invaded our homes in our country.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

First of all, the uptalking distracts me. It's funny, his, I was trying to get past it. His uptalking doesn't fit his personality. Usually up talking is, you know, a different vibe. Anyway, that is something Tucker Carlson used to talk about a lot that I always agreed with that a lot of the people that are okay with the policies allowing illegal immig, their neighborhoods aren't affected and never have been affected at all with by legal or illegal immigration. It's just like it's not in their world. It's all academic. As opposed to the rest of us who it, you know, drastically changes your school, your hospital, your whatever, your neighborhood.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right. The protected class and the unprotected class, those who make the policies and those who feel the brunt of the policies. It's an excellent point.

[Joe Getty]

So they should secure the border.

[Jack Armstrong]

Class divide in America.

[Joe Getty]

Secure the border. I wish they would get E Verify because I really think that's the quickest way to fix it. As the National Review has been writing.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's going to make me insane. It's so grating. So grating.

[Joe Getty]

Why does, why do, why do Republicans resist E verify? Why has Trump never brought that up? Because there's so much pressure from big business to hey, that would ruin us if we had to actually verify that people were legal. Ding.

[Jack Armstrong]

What did you tell us earlier? That there are something like 60,000 or whatever it is empty manufacturing jobs in America, right?

[Joe Getty]

140,000.

[Jack Armstrong]

Sorry. Wow. Yeah, I was barely not even half 140,000 empty, unfillable manufacturing jobs because we have so many healthy young men in particular on fake disability or on the government dole not active in the workforce, numbers that have never been seen before. So we've got to import illegal immigrants and good Lord. And Trump's talking about we need hundreds of thousands more manufacturing jobs. What then? Anyway, on the topic of immigration more broadly, I wish I had time to read you more of this than I'm going to, but Rich Lowry of the National Review, who I think is great, has made the point recently that whether it's that wackadoodle judge in Wisconsin who tried to help an illegal wife beater violent multiple deportee immigrant escape justice because she saw the feds around the courthouse, they act like illegal immigrants are fugitive slaves. And that's a great comparison. They act like they're the Harriet Tubmans of the world trying to save these poor, innocent beleaguered people from their slave masters, specifically the laws of the United States and immigration that they have no reason to be here, especially the felons. They're not fugitive slaves. Anyway, more on that reasoning another time. Cause I think it's eloquent and amusing in its own way. But this is from not the Bee, which is the Babylon Bees non humor side, which is actually pretty interesting if you don't follow him or not aware of them. But ABC News is peddling activism again. Let's talk about this ridiculous post. This is the ABC official news Twitter feed. Whatever. The two year old child of anyway Venezuelan migrants is with a foster family after her mom was deported to Venezuela and her dad was sent to El Salvador, authorities said, and they point out you don't hate the media enough. First the the post which I just read to you and there's a little more to it. But now for the facts. The U.S. department of Homeland Security claims that both parents are connected to trendy Aragua, the violent, sadistic Venezuelan gang that is taking over entire neighborhoods and cities across the U.S. the father, Micah Espinosa Escalona, is reportedly quote, a lieutenant of trendy Aragua who oversees homicides, drug sales, kidnappings, extortion, sex trafficking and operates a torture house. The mother, Yor Lee Escarleth Bernal in Siarte reportedly, quote, overseas recruitment of young women for drug smuggling and prostitution. Both entered the US illegally. In May of 2024, at the height of the Biden wide open border, the lovely gal was detained for several months in Texas. After requesting to be deported, she was sent back to Venezuela because of the claim that the fella is a gang lieutenant. He was sent to Guantanamo Bay, then to that president El Salvador. But ABC News trotted out the family's the couple's family to tell us how loving and kind and sweet and innocent they are. Inserting his mother told ABC News, quote, my daughter has a tattoo of the year I was born and the year her dad was born. She also has the name of her son and some flowers on her chest Maker. The husband's a tattoo artist and he would do her tattoos. How romantic. An aspiring tattoo artist who also loves cutting hair. Marley, who is Escalona's sister, said her brother was also a barber and traveled to the US For a better life. Yeah, this is the the barber we heard about. My brother is a 25 year old guy, a dreamer. Like all Venezuelans, he loves cutting hair, blah blah blah. So he immigrated to have a better life. The attack angle here is not that illegal aliens got sent back to their own countries. The media is beginning to learn that the vast majority of Americans support deporting illegals. The real point is to push the idea that the Trump administration is stealing kids from their parents. ABC News made sure to put in a statement from the communist dictatorship of Venezuela to push the point. Quote, the US Government is robbing Venezuelan children. Said their interior minister. ABC News look, we're not saying that the Orange Hitler is kidnapping kids. Wink wink. The Venezuelans are saying that the Orange Hitler. But what's missing in this activist op ed is context. ABC cleverly noted that the Office of Refugee Resettlement referred them to DHS for questions about the child that in their customer custody, but didn't specify whether it had actually asked the office for a statement. Blah, blah, blah. The reader only gets one side of the story that's framed to make Trump look evil. And the part about the father operating a torture house as a gang lieutenant and the mother accused of being a child sex trafficker. Could it be that there are details we've yet to learn about abuse and credible danger that led the Trump administration to place this child with a foster family? Almost certainly this is a fairly long article, but you get the gist of it. And again, ABC News, what are they? I guess they're trying to sell clicks to a particular group of Americans with a particular point of view. I just wish people would be honest about what they are. Abc, you're in the news, you're in the business rather of providing clickbait for people who are very soft on illegal immigrants.

[Joe Getty]

Say.

[Jack Armstrong]

So advertise it like that.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. I would just think from a wanting to win election standpoint, both the party and the media that backs that party wouldn't want to keep hammering this whole thing because, I mean, the, the, the results are in on how people feel about illegal immigration.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, yeah, It's a huge loser, too. I mean, and if you actually ever learn the facts about these people. So the guy, you know, he's a gang lieutenant, runs a torture house, et cetera, et cetera. Drug trafficker. The mile of the mom is a sex trafficker or whatever. But he really likes to cut hair. If you, as the same human being said, oh, he's good at cutting hair, you know, I think we let him stay.

[Joe Getty]

Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

That would, I mean, come on, you should be in a home being fed, you know, softened foods and, you know, allowed out on the weekends. I mean, come on. Wow. Nice job, abc. Hope you're all proud of yourselves.

[Joe Getty]

So, coming up, Katy Perry hits back at her critics who claim she's not a real astronaut.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, Katie.

[Joe Getty]

Shh.

[Jack Armstrong]

Let it go. Let it die.

[Joe Getty]

And what's an npc? It's worth knowing in case you get called that by, like a teenager, what they're referring to them fighting words, among other things. On the way. We'll finish strong. Stay here.

[Jack Armstrong]

Armstrong and Getty.

[Joe Getty]

I threw out the idea of what an NPC is. If you ever heard that term among young people. It's an insult. My son used it on me the other day. That's so NPC dead. And it is. It's what they call non. Non player characters in video games.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh.

[Joe Getty]

But like in video games, the NPCs are all the. Just like, they don't. They all dress the same. They have no personality. They're just there to, like, be in the background of the role.

[Jack Armstrong]

Exactly.

[Joe Getty]

So if you dress in kind of a like, you know, khaki's polo shirt sort of way, you're so. It's so npc.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, that's funny. A lot of modern lingo just annoys me. But that's creative.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, yeah. And it's, you know, and it's interesting. This is obvious and we've talked about it before, but the, it's like the anarchists unite thing, it's the non conformists unite. Just, you know, you hang out with your own group of non conformists that all act and dress and have the same hairstyles and everything like that. And it's just. I mean, I sit in the high school parking lot every single day waiting for my son to come out, and everybody's dressed exactly the same way. Every dude is wearing the same style of hat in the same way on their head. You have to have it like tilted forward and high up on your head. I mean, it's just, you know, it's just. And the girls all have their own look to be unique, whatever. I don't know why we need to delude ourselves like that or, or not just admit to ourselves. I dress like all the other people in the sphere I want to be part of. I'm not actually that unique.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yes. Sometimes you just have to separate yourself from it. And, you know, it's as if you're observing a different species and their rituals and mating dances and plumage and the rest of it and think, well, that's what humans do. That's funny.

[Joe Getty]

So if you hear somebody drop an NPC on you, it's not exact you prop. One, you don't care if you are npc. But two, it's a. It's an insult. I'll use my finger quotes.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, that's funny.

[Joe Getty]

So apparently it's not true. The headline that came out yesterday that the board for Tesla was looking to replace, hunting around to replace Elon Musk as the guy running the company. And then by the morning, at least the Financial Times said the Tesla board says, no, that's not true. Although certainly could be true. Or at least they wanted that out there for a while to get Elon's attention, that, hey, maybe a little less Doge, a little more running the most valuable car company in the world.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, they sent a shot across the bow. Who knows? Who knows whether it was an official search or a announcement or a whisper that, you know, we're going to start a search. You're sending a message, I guess.

[Joe Getty]

Well, I'm just thinking about it right now though, as it could be a, he's busy with other things. It also could be a, we got to get his name out of this. So the kind of people that won't buy a Tesla because Elon Musk won't have that excuse anymore because it absolutely has hurt sales and the stock price and everything like that beyond a doubt, catastrophically. Oh, yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Is there any precedent in the history of business?

[Joe Getty]

Absolutely not. Not even close.

[Jack Armstrong]

I mean, you'd have to have somebody so identified with their product like Elon is, and then go afoul of a huge constituent. Well, not only a huge political constituency, but the constituency most likely to buy that product.

[Joe Getty]

Right. And the fact that Tesla's so valuable to start with has been confusing for many, many years now. I wish I'd had gotten in on the Tesla stock a long time ago and then gotten out, like, in December. Of course, everybody'd like to time the market perfectly, but it's worth more than, like, the next six car companies added together. It's just nuts.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's like if the CEO of Smith and Wesson had hired Dylan Mulvaney to be the spokesperson and then married him.

[Joe Getty]

For instance.

[Jack Armstrong]

For instance.

[Joe Getty]

Right. So from that standpoint, I don't know what would be the argument against saying, hey, we got to replace Elon Musk. We can't have him be the face of this company anymore.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, it is. You know, as an American, and particularly as a conservative who thinks that government is horrifically bloated and wasteful, blah, blah, blah, I see it as a unfortunate byproduct of doing the right thing. But if I'm like a Tesla board member or, like, big time stockholder, I'm, like, on my knees weeping and vomiting over all this.

[Joe Getty]

It's.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's terrible.

[Imam]

Check your clock.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's time to stop Jack and Joe.

[Joe Getty]

They've got to go. And if they don't get canned, they'll be back tomorrow. Love it. Here's 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, starting with our technical director, Michelangelo Michael. Final thought.

[Michaelangelo]

I felt really bad. I was exercising with my wife yesterday and I got.

[Joe Getty]

Is that what you call it?

[Michaelangelo]

Yeah. No, no, no, no. We were on the.

[Jack Armstrong]

You are crass.

[Michaelangelo]

Anyway, I got caught looking, looking at another woman, and I made the crack to my wife. She said, I caught you looking. I said, well, Bill Belichick can do it. I should be able to do it. And she didn't think it was funny.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow, no sense of humor. Katie Greener, esteemed newswoman, has a final thought. Katie?

[Katie Greener]

Well, we were talking about those little mini booze bottles earlier, and I have a crafty friend. She makes them into. Lays the necklaces. She gets like, nets and she'll give you booze necklaces.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, and then you can just wear it around your neck.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, it's festive. Hey, Jack, a final thought for us.

[Joe Getty]

Somebody gave me this tip on the text line. I've never done it before because I got this lingering cough. Ask your doctor for inhalers. After a virus has run its course, you need to calm down the irritation. And the way to do that more quickly is an inhaler. I've never done that, but that might be a good answer.

[Jack Armstrong]

My final thought. I'd like to apologize for making light of the British lad who won the national seagull imitating contest. You know, it might not be the skill I chose to perfect, but it was that boy's choice. And he should be proud of himself.

[Joe Getty]

Sure, and his parents are. Armstrong and Yeti. Wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.

[Jack Armstrong]

And I'm sure the neighborhood girls are really attracted to that ability.

[Joe Getty]

God, you're so many people. Your son's in his bedroom practicing his seagull call over and over, over again. You think? Oh, my God.

[Jack Armstrong]

What did we do wrong? Honey? So many people, so little time. Blah, blah, blah.

[Joe Getty]

God bless America.

[Jack Armstrong]

Armstrong and Getty.

[Joe Getty]

We're in fear territory right now.

[Jack Armstrong]

We will not be silent.

[Joe Getty]

Sweetheart, sweetheart, listen to me.

[Stephen Miller]

Please. Don't call me sweetheart.

[Brian]

They need to tone it down.

[Jack Armstrong]

Pretty pleased with Sugar on top. On the other hand, she just released a hit record. I saw Diddy waxing his dolphin by the sea. It's number three in streaming this week, Jack, so Waltz.

[Joe Getty]

Oddly enough, Bye Bye Armstrong and Gettysburg.