Low T! No Sperm!

Summary

Armstrong & Getty On Demand

Episode: "Low T! No Sperm!"

Date: March 10, 2026

Host: iHeartPodcasts

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Episode Overview

This episode features Armstrong & Getty’s sharp and often humorous analysis of current events, exploring themes of media bias, societal changes, masculinity, crime, and economic policy. The hosts dive into a recent ISIS-inspired bombing attempt in New York, criticism of mainstream media coverage, a celeb-obsessed attempted murder, uncivil public behavior, and the so-called “low testosterone crisis” among men. The hour wraps with a critique of wealth tax proposals and musings on modern manhood, peppered with the hosts’ irreverent banter.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. ISIS-Inspired Bombing Attempt in New York (03:07–14:01, 21:56–24:49)

• Incident Recap: Two teenagers, Amir Balad and Ibrahim Kayumi, attempted to set off homemade bombs at an anti-Islam protest near Gracie Mansion, inspired by ISIS propaganda.
• Media Critique: The hosts dissect the misleading mainstream media coverage, which they argue downplayed the Islamic extremism angle and suggested the violence came from white supremacists.
  • Quote (Joe Getty, 04:31):
    “The twin… really, well, there are three sickening aspects of this. Number one, we have hardcore Islamists operating in the United States... and the movement toward the Islamization of Western societies is really reaching a critical point both in the U.S., in Britain, in Australia, in a number of places.”
• Official Responses: The mayor’s statement is skewered for omitting any mention of radical Islam or terrorism, instead framing the event as the result of “hate” from protesters.
• Media Obfuscation: CNN in particular is called out for initially portraying the perpetrators as innocent teens enjoying a city trip—until backlash led to a retraction.
  • Quote (Jack Armstrong, 12:12):
    “Two Pennsylvania teenagers crossed into New York City Saturday morning for what could have been a normal day, enjoying the city during abnormally warm weather. But in less than an hour their lives would be drastically changed...”
  • Quote (Joe Getty, 12:32):
    “You could conceivably write that lead if it turns out they didn’t do it and were just walking down the street innocently, right?”
• Radicalization Language: Discussion on the term "self-radicalized," questioning if it downplays coordinated global Islamist movements.
  • Quote (Joe Getty, 23:22):
    “So they watched ISIS videos online, got hot to trot, traveled to the Middle East and got trained up by ISIS... What does self radicalized mean?”

Timestamps

• Bombing incident and media coverage: 03:07–14:01
• Continued analysis and “self-radicalization”: 21:56–24:49

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2. Pro-Khamenei Vigils & Free Speech Debate (09:26–12:03)

• Context: Brief look at Manhattan protests/vigils for the Ayatollah, touching the boundaries of free speech and First Amendment rights.
• Key Point: Raises the question of when speech crosses into advocating the violent overthrow of the U.S. government.
  • Quote (Joe Getty, 11:27): “…one of the few exceptions to First Amendment protections is you can’t advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. government… These people absolutely are in their way... Just want people to be aware because you’ll never get this through the media or politicians.”

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3. Celebrity Obsession & Attempted Murder on Rihanna (15:09–21:18)

• Incident Recap: A woman, Ivana Ortiz, opened fire at Rihanna’s house, motivated by personal obsessions and delusions.
• Media Treatment: The hosts note the relative lack of coverage compared to other high-profile attacks, and speculate about the suspect's mental health.
  • Quote (Katie, 21:11):
    “Yeah, I’m sensing untreated schizophrenia here.”
  • Humorous Exchange (20:05):
    • Jack Armstrong: “All chicks have issues. No offense.”
    • Katie: “Ah, watch it.”

Timestamps

• Rihanna incident details & analysis: 15:09–21:18

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4. Public Decorum, Civil Courage, and Social Change (28:32–34:20)

• Plane Passenger Meltdown: Discussion of viral video showing a woman refusing to turn off a video on a plane, claiming “free speech.”
• Societal Shift: Hosts lament the decline in bystander intervention and civil courage; more people record events rather than step in.
  • Quote (Jack Armstrong, 34:20):
    “But whatever happened, what happened to those guys [who'd step in]? Are they gone? I hear women complain about that all the time.”

Timestamps

• Plane passenger incident and public behavior: 28:32–32:37
• Bystander effect discussion: 32:37–34:20

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5. Masculinity Crisis: “Low T! No Sperm!” (34:20–39:27)

• Masculinity in Decline: The hosts link declining testosterone and sperm counts to observed societal changes—like failure of men to confront anti-social behavior.
  • Quote (Joe Getty, 34:20):
    “If this was antelopes or elephants…the world of science would be in a fever pitch. Sperm counts, testosterone levels have dropped drastically over the last 30 years or so.”
• Root Causes: Debates whether it’s due to cultural, environmental, or behavioral shifts (e.g., “everyone’s filming everything” instead of acting bravely).
• Female Perspective: Katie and her friends bemoan the modern “wispy men”—“liberal wispy men,” distinguishing the phenomenon as cultural as much as biological.
  • Quote (Katie, 38:44):
    “We call them liberal wispy men.”
• Humorous Banter: Joe jokes about being a “natural born lover man.”
  • Quote (Joe Getty, 36:29):
    “I gotta see if Judy’s willing to rent me out as a gigolo because I am a natural born lover man…”

Timestamps

• Masculinity & sperm crisis: 34:20–39:27

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6. Wealth Tax: Economics, Feasibility, and Evasion (43:25–50:10)

• Policy Analysis: Deep dive into the proposed wealth tax in California and at the national level (e.g., Bernie Sanders, AOC, Ro Khanna). The hosts and guest columnist Megan McArdle argue that wealth taxes:
  • Cause capital flight
  • Are tough to enforce/collect
  • Will inevitably be expanded beyond billionaires to regular millionaires and beyond
  • Are often based on “paper assets” resulting in real losses if asset value drops post-taxation
• Media and Political Manipulation: Critique of “progressive” taxes as democratically unrepresentative.
  • Quote (Joe Getty, 44:23):
    “…the more progressive the tax rate, the more regressive and non-representative the democracy is. That’s why I hate the progressive tax rate. Have since I was a kid, oddly enough.”
• Comparison to Europe: Reference to how wealth taxes failed across Europe (e.g., Rolling Stones moving to avoid taxes in Britain).
• Alternative Solution: Advocacy for a value-added tax (VAT) as a more rational way to collect taxes.
  • Quote (Joe Getty, 49:52):
    “…not only taxes on expenditures makes sense…drug dealers end up paying taxes because everything they buy gets the value added tax put to it. So there’s no tax evasion anymore.”

Timestamps

• Wealth tax critique and economics: 43:25–50:10

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the media’s narrative around terrorism:
  “If you were reading either the mayor’s statement or the mainstream media, you would assume that the bombs were placed by white supremacists. Not only did the failed attack expose Mayor Mamdani and many of his sympathizers in the press as apologists for Islamists, it showed how hard they will work to hide the truth when it’s inconvenient to their worldview.” — Joe Getty (06:07)

• On masculinity:
  "We call them liberal wispy men." — Katie (38:44)
  "Danger increases testosterone... We have such a safe, comfortable, passive, have the authorities deal with it society. Men are not producing testosterone because they're veal calves." — Joe Getty (37:06)

• On wealth taxes:
  “If only it were so easy. …Wealth taxes have been tried over and over and most countries that adopted them eventually abandoned the idea completely, finding that such taxes were difficult to administer, caused capital flight, and raised little revenue.” — Quoting Megan McArdle, summarized by Joe Getty (46:45)

• Humor and banter on policy and society:
  "I gotta see if Judy’s willing to rent me out as a gigolo because I am a natural born lover man." — Joe Getty (36:29)

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Summary Table: Key Segments & Timestamps

| Segment | Timestamps | |--------------------------------------------|------------------| | ISIS-Inspired NY Bombing & Media | 03:07–14:01,<br/>21:56–24:49 | | Pro-Khamenei Vigil & Free Speech | 09:26–12:03 | | Rihanna Attempted Murder Incident | 15:09–21:18 | | Public Behavior & Bystander Effect | 28:32–34:20 | | Masculinity Crisis/Low Testosterone | 34:20–39:27 | | Wealth Tax Critique | 43:25–50:10 |

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Tone and Style

The Armstrong & Getty style blends irreverence with outrage, employing biting humor, rapid-fire banter, and pointed media criticism. They're unsparing of “left-wing” media, politicians, or “wispy men,” but quick to riff on each other and the absurdities of the news cycle.

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For Listeners Who Missed the Episode

This episode is packed with candid takes on terrorism, media honesty, celebrity news, decaying public standards, the decline of masculinity, and economic policy—all delivered in Armstrong & Getty’s trademark mix of seriousness and satire. Expect critical perspectives, culture war jabs, and enough quotable moments to fuel water cooler debates.

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[Jack Armstrong]

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[Joe Getty]

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[Joe Getty]

And now here's Armstrong and Getty. An 18 year old hurling a homemade Another teen then hands him a second device. He ignites it, sprints down a sidewalk, hops a police barricade and is tackled while the device is still smoking. Police say 18 year old Amir Balad and 19 year old Ibrahim Kayumi told investigators they were inspired by isis. The FBI says one of the teens watched ISIS propaganda videos on his phone and the other told them he wanted to carry out an attack bigger than the Boston Marathon bombing and lamented that attack caused only three deaths. The devices were made from mason jars, nuts and bolts. One of them tested positive for the highly volatile substance TATP used in attacks around the world.

[Jack Armstrong]

So if they trained with ISIS at all, I wonder why they were so bad at making their bombs. I'm glad they were.

[Joe Getty]

We're be harder than it looks. I don't know.

[Jack Armstrong]

We're complaining earlier about the coverage on this where if you just are not like if we're really up on the story, you'd be led to believe that anti Mamdani people threw the bombs.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, we're heading directly toward that point. The twin really. Well, there are three sickening aspects of this. Number one, we have hardcore Islamists operating in the United States. One of them is in Gracie Manchin. He's the mayor of New York, perhaps you've heard of him. And the movement toward the Islamization of Western societies is really reaching a critical point both in the U.S. in Britain, in Australia, in a number of places. And that's number one. Number two, the Mayor's statement about this is bizarre and unacceptable. And three, as Jack points out, the media has been willfully, intentionally trying to mislead you. For instance. Well, I tell you, let's just lay it out like this. So you got the two men trying to unleash homemade bombs, but you would. And they were inspired by ISIS screaming Alawa Akbar. But you'd never know any of that from the mayor's statements or much of the mainstream media's coverage. Credit to ABC for when it was finally impossible to avoid going ahead and saying that.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, yeah, it wasn't clear over the weekend from all your Alphabet newscasts. I had to listen to one of them, CBS or ABC a couple of times because I just was kind of listening. And to catch the counter protests. What does that mean? Oh, the pro Islam people showed up to try to kill the peacefully protesting anti Islam people. Now, I probably don't agree with that leader, right wing leader guy on a whole lot of stuff who's anti Islam, but he was peacefully protesting.

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[Joe Getty]

If you were reading either the mayor's statement or the mainstream media, you would assume that the bombs were placed by white supremacists. Not only did the failed attack expose Mayor Mamdani and many of his sympathizers in the press as apologists for Islamists, it showed how hard they will work to hide the truth when it's inconvenient to their worldview. I'm quoting the Free Press now. And we've already described what happened then. They threw the bombs. The police commissioner, Jessica Tisch, said the bomb is in fact an improvised explosive device that could have caused serious injury or death. We went over that. You can hear the Alwa Akbar. Here is Mamdani's statement. I'm going to read it to you verbatim. Yesterday, white supremacist Jake Lang organized a protest outside Gracie Mansion. Rooted in bigotry and racism, such hate has no place in New York City. It is an affront to our city's values and the unity that defines who we are. Wow. So that's his lead. There was a demonstration by bigots and we hate that sort of thing. Those guys were just standing around waving placards. There's a handful of them. Just they're nothing. Until the Islamist bomb chuckers arrived. Anyway, he goes on. What followed was even more disturbing.

[Jack Armstrong]

Even more disturbing.

[Joe Getty]

Really?

[Jack Armstrong]

The bomb with the intention to kill a whole bunch of people is more disturbing than the peaceful protest?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I would say, but listen to this jump. It's as if somebody ripped out the Guts of this statement. What followed was even more disturbing. Violence at a protest is never acceptable. The attempt to use an explosive device and hurt others is not only criminal, it's reprehensible and an antithesis of what we are. I want to thank the cops in the nypd. Blah, blah, blah. So he leaps from what followed was even more what followed. Mr. Mayor. What and who and for what cause. And he left all of it out. As the Free Press writes, the omissions are remarkable. Instead of denouncing a terrorist attack on the police who serve his city, Mamdani referred to the violence as if it were the weather. No reference to the suspects, no use of the word terrorism. No mention of Islamism while the evidence suggests motivated the nearly catastrophic attack. It's unbelievable. And he's joined by the press in that effort. When politicians refuse to see what is right in front of them, does the media step in and set them straight? I gotta stop right there. The idea that politicians don't understand what's happening.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right.

[Joe Getty]

That's not true. They know precisely what's happening. They just think it would hurt the narrative or hurt their cause to say so. We were NBC. Multiple arrests made after suspicious devices found outside Gracie Mansion during anti Islam rally and protest. Suspicious devices found and during anti Islam rally and counter protest. No mention of radicalized Muslims screaming Al wa Akbar and throwing bombs. ABC police arrested several people after a smoke generating suspicious device was thrown during a protest at Gracie Mansion.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, that's really downplaying a bomb.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, yeah. Zorani is a. Mamdani is an Islamist. He is an Islamist and sympathetic towards socialism and communism. That's absolutely undeniable. Let's see. We can skip that because we've gone over it then. I just wanted to throw this in real quickly. And I guarantee you have not heard this. Right? I doubt it if you have. All right. Get that pop up off my screen. This is from one of your big local papers in New York City. The NYPD had to make arrests and broke up a rowdy protest at a Manhattan vigil for the Ayatollah Kamenee Friday night in Washington Square Park. Very famous beautiful park. Flyer circulated online Friday advertising the event as a vigil for the Supreme Leader after he was killed. Groups build the event as a memorial for Kameni and all martyrs of American imperialism. And of course they spelled American with a K because that's scary and cool among your radical crowd these days. All right. But it was a couple of hundred people gathered underneath the Washington Square arch shortly after 6, 15 demonstrators waved Iranian flags inside a blocked off area counter. Protesters gathered around the group waving American Israeli flags yelling Communism is dead. Which is interesting. Multiple yelling matches between people. But you had a couple of people, a couple of hundred people rather, demonstrating against Khamenei being killed. They are hardcore Islamists demonstrating against the US in the US and it's interesting from a free speech perspective they get to do that. But I remember reading hell, it was probably in high school, nevermind college, that one of the few exceptions to freedom, the First Amendment protections, is you can't advocate the violent overthrow of the United States government or the Constitution. And these people absolutely are in their way. And so I'm not calling for them to be arrested, I just want, I want people to be aware because you'll never get this through the media or the politicians. We are at a near crisis point in the English speaking world in particular, but also France and Germany to some extent too. Increasingly we're at a near crisis point with Islam trying to assert itself into our societies. The very, very short version of it when they're like is a percent or 2 of your population that's Muslim. They don't assert themselves very much. It's part of a well known strategy. Once little bit of critical mass. They assert themselves much more forcefully and much more forcefully make demands, watch it and see and be warned. It's happening right now.

[Jack Armstrong]

So back to the ISIS bomb chucker dudes, we talked about this earlier. CNN's version of the story is.

[Joe Getty]

Oh my God, right?

[Jack Armstrong]

Two Pennsylvania teenagers crossed into New York City Saturday morning for what could have been a normal day, enjoying the city during abnormally warm weather. But in less than an hour their lives would be drastically changed as the pair would be arrested for throwing homemade bombs during an anti Muslim protest outside of the mayor's home. Charles C.W.

[Joe Getty]

you could, you could conceivably write that lead if it turns out they didn't do it and were just walking down the street innocently, right?

[Jack Armstrong]

Yes.

[Joe Getty]

Like it was something that happened to them. They were hoping to get tickets to Hamilton and all of a sudden they're under arrest.

[Jack Armstrong]

Charles C.W. cook of the National Review writing. Whenever the topic is something the media doesn't like, journalists all become creative writing professors. The press has done everything possible to obfuscate the facts of this story and it's done so deliberately. How about 19 Middle Eastern tourists crossed in New York City Tuesday morning for what could have been a normal day, enjoying the city during abnormally sunny weather.

[Joe Getty]

Wow. Yeah. In 2001.

[Jack Armstrong]

That is absolutely amazing.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

As opposed to the first sentence being a couple of ISIS trained assassins showed up in front of the mayor's office

[Joe Getty]

the other day because as they said to the investigators helpfully, you know, spilling their guts, saying because Islam had been insulted, they came to kill and to maim and the press is actively trying to cover that up. That's troubling. But you know, the liberals of all the countries I mentioned are terrified of admitting that the great multicultural, rampant immigration from the Muslim world thing is a bad idea. They despise telling the truth about it and so they don't.

[Jack Armstrong]

That is something. Sure glad those bombs didn't go off.

[Joe Getty]

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Why did somebody try to kill Rihanna in LA yesterday? Being accused with attempted murder. We get the details on that story. She's a pop singer that I don't really know her music. She's also a billionaire. Remember she's the youngest self made billionaire I think ever.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, she's gone full corporate branding, endorsements, stuff like that. Super savvy businesswoman. Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Anyway, that and a bunch of other stuff on the way. Stay here.

[Joe Getty]

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[Joe Getty]

Police say 35 year old Ivana Ortiz from Florida opened fire with an AR15 style assault rifle and fled. Police spotted the suspect's car from the air. They tracked it to a nearby shopping mall where they took Ortiz into custody, booked her on attempted murder and set bail at more than $10 million.

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mogul was home at the time of the shooting. Ivana Ortiz was booked for domestic violence in Florida in 2023. More recently, she sought an injunction to block a Billie Eilish concert in Orlando. Before the shooting, a woman who appears to be Ortiz shared bizarre posts on social media several celebrities, including Rihanna.

[Jack Armstrong]

So is this person and a celebrity obsessed nut job? Is that what that is?

[Joe Getty]

Katie Seems like a good enough conclusion to me. Yeah.

[Katie]

Yeah. The chick has issues. Big time.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay?

[Joe Getty]

All chicks have issues. No offense.

[Katie]

Ah, watch it. Yeah, apparently this chick was claiming that Rihanna was stealing from her and was jealous of her and was a writ A witch with the devil's face.

[Joe Getty]

Oh. Oh, you hate to have that.

[Katie]

Yeah, you hate it.

[Joe Getty]

Hey, met your new girlfriend. She seems really sweet but strikes me as a witch with the devil's face. Dude. Hey. Well I.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay, so it turns out it's a celebrity thing. It is. Got it's about her being a singer because I kept hearing this referred to as a pop star. She is a billionaire business person and someone tried to shoot her and kill her. So I thought shouldn't this get some attention? You know, the United Health Care guy got gunned down in the street or I feel like if it was somebody you'd never heard of who runs a company you've never heard of, if somebody had just been arrested for attempted murder on this billionaire, we'd be treating it like maybe a story like what's going on there.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, but because it was a pop

[Jack Armstrong]

star and it's celebrity. Celebrity wackadoodle. Yes.

[Katie]

Katie. Yeah, I'm. I'm sensing undy or untreated schizophrenia here.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay.

[Joe Getty]

She.

[Katie]

She tagged her in a Facebook post that said, rihanna, are you there? Because I was. Jeez. Because I was waiting for your aids 5 head self to say something to me directly instead of sneaking around like you're talking to me where I'm not at.

[Jack Armstrong]

So you want to be famous.

[Katie]

And then she got in her Tesla and fired off 10 shots at Rihanna's house.

[Joe Getty]

I've sprinkled the world with insults throughout my life, but I've never gone with you. AIDS five head.

[Katie]

Yeah, that's a new zinger.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay, so back to the scumbag ISIS members who threw bombs at a rally in New York over the weekend. So there is an update on this story. CNN has retracted, pulled off their website

[Joe Getty]

their

[Jack Armstrong]

flowery story about two teenagers going into New York on a beautiful day. So that's kind of interesting. They got such a backlash on that. And we've mentioned it twice today, and it's despicable. And they said this link has been. Is gone. CNN put out a post regarding the two individuals arrested for throwing homemade bombs outside of New York City mayor's home failed to reflect the gravity of the incident, thereby breaching the editorial standards we require for all our reporting. It has therefore been deleted. CNN said.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, yeah. Who wrote that story and why? I would like to know that.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, no kidding.

[Joe Getty]

Here's another kind of tangential question for you. I've seen these two young men referred to as self radicalized, like in virtually every single story. So they watched ISIS videos online, got hot to trot, traveled to the Middle east and got trained up by isis. It would appear both of them made multiple travel stops throughout the Middle east in the very places you'd go to meet with ISIS guys and get trained.

[Jack Armstrong]

Trained up poorly by isis. Or they just weren't good at it.

[Joe Getty]

Or it's harder than it looks. Yeah, but what does self radicalized mean? If I decide I want to become a United States Marine and I go and tell the recruiter I want to do this and I go to boot camp. Have I been self militarized or what does self radicalized even mean? It wasn't some stranger who came up to him. Stay, Johnny. You want to see some pictures of martyrdom? Doesn't everybody self, whatever the hell they are, at some point, do they use the term self radicalized to make it seem as though they're not part of a worldwide movement, a significant movement. I don't know.

[Jack Armstrong]

I mean, you could look at it that way or you could look at it as I think I did after 9 11. The philosophy was so appealing to people that just being aware of it could turn them into murderous scumbags.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, yeah. I think part of the situation here is I'm looking at the mainstream media using that term over and over again, and that has got to be useful to them in their effort to soften it. Because Islam's the religion of peace. No it's not. It means submission, not peace, friend.

[Jack Armstrong]

I could see it both ways because it's pretty horrifying that that ideology has enough appeal that some people just reading about it online on their own decide, you know what I'm going to do,

[Joe Getty]

that this is, whatever the conclusion, a discussion worth having.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, I'd say we got more on the way. If you missed the segment, get your podcast Armstrong and Getty on Demand Armstrong

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[Joe Getty]

I paid money for it and I

[Jack Armstrong]

played a video for 30 seconds at 50% sound.

[Joe Getty]

That sounds like a damn problem.

[Host/Announcer]

What the actual I stopped after the second morning.

[Jack Armstrong]

I stopped it.

[Joe Getty]

Hey, is this not a free speech?

[Host/Announcer]

America?

[Joe Getty]

Can I not express my feelings? Thank you for recording me.

[Host/Announcer]

I played a video for 30. Thank you.

[Joe Getty]

Thank you officer.

[Jack Armstrong]

All right. That. That drove me crazy. I don't know what that was, but it drove me nuts.

[Joe Getty]

Drunk blanking woman playing videos on a plane. No headphones, no nothing. She was told twice to stop it. Drunk it sounds like moron. And the airlines are cracking down on that and said, all right, you got to get off. And they sent the cops to drag her off. And cops are so gentle these days because everybody's, you know, videotaping everything. Took him a while to get her off the plane, but it was funny.

[Jack Armstrong]

What was she saying?

[Joe Getty]

Oh, gosh, there's. There's a lot about this free speech America. I'm expressing my feelings.

[Jack Armstrong]

Because of free speech, Congress can pass no laws. You get to play your video loud on an airplane. I'm not. I'm. I don't get the leap there.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I'm not sure Justice Scalia is gonna buy that one, sweetheart.

[Jack Armstrong]

Katie, you speak woman.

[Katie]

Well, no. I mean, you guys basically translated it. She's. She stopped after second warning. They need to have a woman around at all times to just choke slam women like this.

[Jack Armstrong]

That would be so handy because men can't.

[Katie]

Yeah. Just bring in a female cop that's

[Joe Getty]

ready to whoop and that.

[Jack Armstrong]

Call it. You know,

[Joe Getty]

I. I'm anti. On, you know, illegal brutality by the police, generally speak. On the other hand, how long do you and everybody else in the situation. Officer. Have to stand there listening to her spouting off when you've ordered her to get up and move multiple times? There is a cost to that, to allowing that defiance. Now, that does not mean that if somebody's a little mouthy, you get to put the night stick to them and put them in a coma. Of course not.

[Katie]

No, I'm not. I'm not saying that. Then. And the chick doesn't even have to be a cop. Just a chick with immunity on standby that can, you know, get her by her hair, drag her off the plane, and everybody can resume as is.

[Joe Getty]

What are you carrying a female air marshal in case somebody needs to be bioch slapped, Right?

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[Jack Armstrong]

Carrying the taser for looks. Make her wet her pants and get her off the damn plane.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, my. So it was funny. There was a remarkable lack of heckling, probably because the cops were on the scene and were trying to do what needed to be done. But when she finally got up, you know, everybody applauded that they were dragging her ass off the plane. She's like, yeah, go ahead and clap. Go ahead and clap. And she leaned in to the roll in front of her and got in the face of the person who had called. The stewardess said, thanks for reporting me. My cop said, all right, that's enough, and pulled her gently. Should have jerked her right out of her shoes.

[Jack Armstrong]

The passenger should have poked her in the nose.

[Joe Getty]

But I was struck by the passengers not heckling. I, I, I am nearly 100 certain I would have yelled something.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'm, I would get off the plane.

[Joe Getty]

You,

[Jack Armstrong]

why would you quietly.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, you know, go with the cops, dumbass. Sorry. Sorry folks.

[Jack Armstrong]

While we are getting more uncivil, you know, F bombs in restaurants and around kids all the time and all that sort of stuff. We're, we're, we're always whipping out our phones to record stuff. I feel like we're less willing to stand up to anybody behaving badly.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. And well, part of it's that we've been told over and over again, let the authorities deal with it, don't deal with it yourself.

[Jack Armstrong]

And I was going to mention this the other day, just kind of fitting in with the fact that nobody said anything. I'm surprised nobody at least said something to her.

[Joe Getty]

They might have been prior to the cops getting there.

[Jack Armstrong]

I wasn't there, but I was watching a video the other day and this is completely anecdotal. Maybe I'm going out of my way to stretch this into a societal problem.

[Joe Getty]

Coming up, the wealth tax. The stupidest idea in America. Stay with us, Jack, Back to you.

[Jack Armstrong]

I was watching this video and it was at a, it was like one of those side shows somebody was having somewhere with the cars and everything like that Anyway and it was, it was a bunch of almost entirely young men in their 20s, maybe early 30s and, and there was one drunk and or high guy who was being really violent and belligerent this whole video. And I never got to the end of it to see how it ended, but I watched it for like, I never watch these videos very long. I watched this one for like eight minutes. Cuz I wondered is anybody gonna do anything about this? This shirtless guy was getting up on these people's cars and like bouncing on their hoods saying who's gonna stop me? Who's gonna stop me? You and me. Go get in somebody's face. F you gonna stop me. And he'd dance around, nobody can stop me. I mean he was just, he was a very buff guy, but nobody ever did anything. All these young men stood around and let this guy act this way. And I just know my own personal life, being around a lot of bars and a lot of I, if anybody had ever acted that way, any bar has ever had, there'd have been like 10 guys lined up to fight this dude and nobody stepped forward to challenge him.

[Joe Getty]

I was shocked for the millionth time. If this was antelopes or elephants. The world of science would be in a fever pitch. Sperm counts, testosterone levels have dropped drastically over the last 30 years or so.

[Jack Armstrong]

Again, maybe I'm extrapolating a one off situation, but I like, I have been in that situation many times and I'm not a fighter, I'm not the guy who had done it, but I have been in that situation many times. There's plenty of guys that dream of that situation happening. They go to the bar hoping that situation will happen. And you had a bunch of young people standing around drinking beer and stuff like that and just let this guy take over and act like a jackass. And nobody stepped forward and said, better, you better shut up now. But whatever happened, what happened to those guys? Are they gone? I hear women complain about that all the time.

[Joe Getty]

That we're no sperm. I told you.

[Katie]

I'm wondering if it has something to do with the everybody's filming it culture.

[Joe Getty]

I don't know, you know, you step

[Jack Armstrong]

in, I don't have any idea.

[Katie]

In trouble.

[Jack Armstrong]

I feel like something's changed though.

[Joe Getty]

Or everybody thought, wow, this is great footage. No, they all look terrified.

[Jack Armstrong]

Everybody looked terrified.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Yeah. Well, you need to put together a little posse to take him down. You gotta be able to band together and say, well, that's enough of this guy. You with me? Let's go. Because, you know, maybe he was big strong dude who nobody thought they could take. I mean, I'm not gonna get to put in a coma.

[Jack Armstrong]

Like I said, I've been in a lot of the situations. There's always other strong dudes that want to challenge that guy.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

And maybe they just aren't anymore. I don't know.

[Joe Getty]

What are they? What do they call them in Japan again? Grass fed boys, I think is the term. It's modern manhood is a little feminine.

[Jack Armstrong]

I hear that from women. I hear women saying that all the time. You say it's true.

[Katie]

It's true. Several friends in the dating realm right now and they have had it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yes, yes. That is what women say over and over again. And well, you know, we've talked about the sperm count thing. It has gone off a cliff in the last several decades. So, I mean, there's got to be a result to that.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, two, Two thoughts. Number one, I gotta see if Judy's willing to rent me out as a gigolo because I am a natural born lover man, to quote the blues. The blues greats of old.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow. Don't ever say that again.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, I got more Muddy Waters quotes. If you want to hear them anyway? That's right. Some of them are unerable. Man. Some of those songs were dirty. Anyway, second thought is Katie can't stop

[Jack Armstrong]

laughing at your full blown lover man or whatever that was.

[Joe Getty]

Natural born lover man.

[Katie]

I just snort laughed. Wow, that was bad.

[Joe Getty]

Anyway, and my other thought is, and I read this a while back and surely somebody is studying this somewhere, although. Oh, wait a minute. Or is it among the academic elite? Are they like, so anti, quote, unquote, toxic masculinity? Everybody thinks this is good. We should have men that are barely men at all who are very passive and never assert themselves because I wouldn't want to be that sort of Neanderthal. Is that attitude so pervasive in the university settings? Nobody's even studied. Nobody's even studied this. But here's my question, because I've read that danger increases testosterone. Anybody who's ever had their family threatened. Jack, you have. I know. More severely than mine ever was. If anybody has had that experience. You are ready to fight bears when your family's threatened. Women too. We have such a safe, comfortable, passive, have the authorities deal with it. Society men are not producing testosterone because they're veal calves. They go online and have Twitter wars behind their keyboards. That's the closest they've ever come to defending themselves with their fists. I'm not enough of a biologist. Well, I'm not a biologist at all to know if my theory's worth a dang AM but it seems promising to me.

[Katie]

Yeah, that would explain all the wispy men for sure.

[Joe Getty]

I wonder.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't know. What, what do you, what do you women folk when you're talking behind our backs, what do you blame it on? What do you think caused it?

[Katie]

I.

[Jack Armstrong]

Is it cultural or is it biological?

[Katie]

All, all of my friends think they're. They're liberals. Yeah, joke. Yeah, it's all these. We call them liberal wispy men.

[Jack Armstrong]

But.

[Joe Getty]

But it.

[Katie]

I, I don't know. I, I'm not sure what it is. Well, like they're tired of it, though.

[Joe Getty]

And all the young women are so angry and militant in the streets because there aren't enough natural born lover men to satisfy their needs.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, that, that's that scenario I painted that I saw in the video. Our friend Pat. What do you think he would have done if he'd have been in the crowd and that guy's going around jumping on people's hoods.

[Joe Getty]

Please, I'm only 100% certain. Yeah, there would have been an ass

[Jack Armstrong]

whooping and lots of guys I've known like that through my life. Maybe there just aren't anymore.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Anyway, that's an interesting phenomenon.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. So what is it?

[Jack Armstrong]

You teased something good. We'll have to get to that.

[Joe Getty]

You know, I'm not a biologist at all, but I am half an economist and I'm going to explain to you why the idea of the wealth tax that the far left Marxist unions in California are trying to get past. Why it's such a terrible idea. You end up with less money and everybody knows it. But so why are they still advocating it? A simple explanation.

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[Jack Armstrong]

That's on the way. And other stuff. Stay here.

[Joe Getty]

Armstrong and Getty

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[Jack Armstrong]

I like me a Dunkin Donut. Gonna go big in hour four on the Iranian soccer girl story. It's pretty horrifying. A BBC journalist with the reality of what's going to happen to these girls when they go back. Are they. How old are they? They grown.

[Joe Getty]

They're grown women. They're the national team, aren't they?

[Jack Armstrong]

I didn't know if it was like a high school team or older than that. Anyway, they're young women and their future is bleak if they end up going back to Iran. More on that in our forest Indeed.

[Joe Getty]

So Megan McArdle's a great columnist with the Washington Post. She's very sane, very smart and she went really good.

[Jack Armstrong]

I've Become a giant fan of her.

[Joe Getty]

I know I need to read her more regularly, but she's going into the myth of the billionaire wealth tax. And this is in particular for Californians who are soon to be victims of it. You're thinking, I'm not a billionaire, I'm not going to be a victim of it. Oh yeah, you are. And I'll explain that in a minute. But that sort of thing. Bernie Sanders is pushing it coast to coast, as is alc. That's right, millionaires and billionaires. Anyway, here's what's wrong with it. And Megan does a nice job of laying it out. It. It doesn't. Number one, it doesn't work. But she starts with the problem with government spending is you have to pay for it. New programs often poll well when you tell people about the benefits. But when you mention raising taxes to pay for it, it's a whole different story. So what if you didn't have to tax reluctant voters to fund your big ideas? Ideas, I've got to depart from the text here and point out that's the idea of the so called progressive tax rate is you. Most of the taxes come from a very small group of people, so they can't vote against the new spending. They're not enough of them. So the more progressive the tax rate, the more regressive and non representative the democracy is. That's why I hate the progressive tax rate. Have since I was a kid, oddly enough. And I had no money as a kid. Anyway. So Elon Musk is sitting on something north of 670 billion. For instance, if the government took just 5% of that, it would have almost $34 billion to spend on health care and childcare and green energy. Right. And there are almost a thousand other billionaires in the country. So pass that wealth tax and warm up the money cannons. She writes. I love that imagery. Anyway, she writes, if only if it were so easy. And then she goes into the wealth tax proposed by Bernie Sanders and Ro Khanna, Democrat Communist of California. Their bill would slap a 5% annual wealth tax on anyone with more than a billion dollars in assets. So it's just paper assets, unrealized wealth stock, whatever you.

[Jack Armstrong]

It was supposed to be one time originally.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, she's talking about. And I'm sorry, I should have. Thank you for pointing that out. She's pointing out the nationalized movement. Okay. The national movement to do wealth taxes. There is a specific one in California that's going to be on the ballot.

[Jack Armstrong]

Perhaps, but everybody knows that if you can get that One time passed how easy it'll get to be able to turn it into next year.

[Joe Getty]

Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's a camel nose tent sort of thing.

[Joe Getty]

So let's see, how much time do we have? Ooh, not a lot. So there are serious arguments that it's unconstitutional anyway. But even more unfortunately, she writes, wealth taxes have been tried over and over, and most countries that adopted them eventually abandoned the idea completely, finding that such taxes were difficult to administer, caused capital flight and raised little revenue. An analysis by University of Toronto economist Joseph Steinberg suggests that tax revenue would actually fall if the Sanders counter proposal were enacted because of increased incentives for tax evasion. And these people and their accountants are extremely sophisticated in why don't we call it tax minimization? Sure, right. And people become more willing to risk penalties for evasion as you raise the stake. And also reduced economic output. And then she goes into some great Econ 101 stuff about, even if you think you can crack down on evasion and you're unconvinced by some Econ 101 arguments that capital taxes depress savings and output, you should still be skeptical. And then I'm looking at the clock. We don't have time for this illustration. Maybe we'll talk about it it in the podcast.

[Jack Armstrong]

See the Rolling Stones moving to France when Britain tried this.

[Joe Getty]

Exactly. Yes. Some of the main problems with it is that wealth is transportable, that people, people instinctively and constitutionally understand that. Look, I have something. This is the greatest illustration. You have a stock that's worth, say $100,000. You get taxed 5% of that because this will, oh, it starts with billionaires, then it will absolutely go down, down, down, down, down. Then they will make the case, look, you've got $5 million. How can you say you can't afford your fair share to feed the poor? You know, you've heard the arguments a million times. But so anyway, you got stocks worth a hundred thousand dollars, gets taxed at 5%, market craters because of a war in the Middle east, or there's a better technology, AI eliminates those jobs, whatever, that, that stock plunges down to $60,000. You've just lost $40,000. You don't get your 5% back. You are taxed on the momentary value of an asset. So you've got to sell it at an enormous loss. And you got taxed on the value. It's just, it's, it's an insane idea and unimplementable. Let's see. And you got the problem with paper wealth, University of Michigan Law School study last year about three. Nah, we don't have time for that. Too many details. So anyway, it's a bad idea and it doesn't work. You know, I'm a fan of the value added tax. I understand the arguments against it. It's essentially taxes on expenditures. Not only taxes on expenditures. Makes sense whether I hire a prostitute who then goes to buy a gallon of paint, for instance. They're a hooker with a nice place, all right? They want to keep it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Whose deal?

[Joe Getty]

Expenditures. So drug dealers end up paying taxes because everything they buy gets the value added tax put to it. So there's no tax evasion anymore.

[Jack Armstrong]

I like a harlot who's DIY in her home life, right?

[Joe Getty]

Sure. Resourceful little guy.

[Jack Armstrong]

So she bought a gallon of paint and all the money adds up to taxes.

[Joe Getty]

Painting is taping. Don't rush that process.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay, that's a good tip.

[Joe Getty]

What'll you do for a hundred bucks? Wow. Geez.

[Jack Armstrong]

That was a bad way to end Armstrong and Gettysburg.

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