Our Hippopotamuses Are Shrinking?!

Summary

Armstrong & Getty On Demand

Episode: Our Hippopotamuses Are Shrinking?!
Date: April 3, 2026
Hosts: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty

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Episode Overview

This episode dives into the impact of modern technology—specifically smartphones, navigation apps, and automation—on human cognition, memory, and attention span, riffing humorously on the “shrinking hippopotamuses” (a playful misstatement for the hippocampus). The hosts also discuss Harvard’s proposed grading reforms, political discourse online, LGBTQ+ terminology and ideology, Medicare fraud, recent Moon mission news, and more. Their signature blend of satire, skepticism, and genuine concern keeps the conversation edgy and engaging.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Technology and the Human Brain

(03:07–08:23)

• Smartphone Withdrawal: Joe shares how abstaining from his iPhone for two weeks brought "friction" back into life. Using a flip phone was challenging but revealing.
  • “It was really excruciating at first… But then we went back and the brain tests were really staggering. Even the experts are surprised by the difference.” — Joe Getty [03:32]
• Shrinking Hippocampus: The hosts reference studies linking constant GPS use to shrinking hippocampuses (the memory-forming brain area).
  • “Your hippocampus...shrinking. Because we use Google Maps, we don't navigate the world the way our ancestors did.” — Joe Getty [03:41]
  • Average adult attention span has dropped from 2.5 minutes to 47 seconds since the year 2000.
  • Jack jokes: “Our hippopotamus is shrinking.” [03:54]
• Overreliance on Navigation: Personal anecdotes about people using GPS to get even a few blocks home.
  • “He used GPS every single day to get to work and to get back home… three blocks from the radio station.” — Joe Getty [05:29]
  • Jack and Joe reflect on the dangers of not using our minds for simple tasks: “Use it or lose it.” [06:43]
• Automation and Self-Driving Cars:
  • Joe admits: “I haven’t heard from many people who use self-driving all the time like I do. I use it every single day.” [06:54]
  • “It's changing our brains. You're gonna hear more about that as more people get self-driving. It's…not good.” — Joe Getty [07:17]
  • “It'd be like me having a robot… What do you think that would do to my arms?” — Jack Armstrong [07:38]

2. Harvard’s Grade Inflation Controversy

(10:13–16:43)

• The Policy Proposal: Harvard plans to cap A grades at 20% per course to combat spiraling grade inflation.
• “For years Harvard has been handing out A’s like their participation trophies.” — Jack Armstrong [11:26]
• By the Numbers: Sixty percent of all Harvard grades were A’s last year, up from 25% in 2005.
  • “In the last two decades they went from a quarter of the people to get A's to the majority. Easily get A's.” — Joe Getty [12:40]
• Student Backlash: Most students (94%) oppose the measure.
  • “Now they're customers at an expensive resort.” — Jack Armstrong [14:27]
• Why Grade Inflation? Pressure from parents and desire for higher teacher ratings cited as reasons.
  • “I don't want to argue with some parent over why their genius got a B. Screwed. I'm giving them an A.” — Jack Armstrong [14:13]
• Bigger Picture: How “everyone gets a trophy” culture shapes expectations and resilience.
• Notable Quote: “We want to liberate students from the tyranny of the 4.0 and make them free to explore.” — Harvard prof, paraphrased by Jack [16:14]

3. Political Discourse & Social Media Outbursts

(08:23–09:42)

• Politicians and Profanity: Congresswoman Susie Lee’s F-bomb-laced social media post about Trump and the Supreme Court makes headlines.
  • “So effing effed up. I'll pray they F him to his face. Sorry, I say F a lot these days.” — Jack quoting Lee [09:09]
  • Lee later defends herself, claiming she was “touched by the attacks on our Constitution.” [09:18]
  • Hosts and staffer Katie joke about alcohol being the real reason: “Sounds like your nerves were touched by vodka.” — Katie [09:33]
• Return Culture: Comedic asides about online shopping returns and personal procrastination.

4. Medicare/Hospice Fraud Scandal

(27:29–31:38)

• Fraud in the News: A California couple arrested for $7.5 million in fraudulent hospice claims.
  • “In this particular case, the flags included a five-year survival rate of 97%—high for what is supposed to be end-of-life care.” — Jack Armstrong [27:38]
• “You can do endless stories about taxpayer money being stolen, and nobody gets worked up enough. We just put up with it.” — Joe Getty [29:24]
• Cynicism and Politics: Hosts reflect on systemic government corruption and lack of accountability.
  • “Government is a for-profit enterprise... The profit is the pay. The profit is siphoning money to your cronies and getting favors and board positions.” — Jack Armstrong [30:54]

5. Moon Mission Updates

(44:56–48:10)

• Artemis 2 Launch: NASA successfully sends astronauts around the Moon.
  • “Humanity has once again shown what we are capable of.” — NASA [44:56]
  • Hosts marvel at how clear the communications are compared to Apollo.
    • “Other than a little background hiss, it sounds like they're in the same room.” — Jack Armstrong [46:10]
• Astronaut Details: Peek into astronaut life—exercise routines, menu (beef brisket, mango salad), and sleep cycles.
  • “The crew started their second day after sleeping in four-hour shifts and exercising on a flywheel… even mango salad and couscous with nuts.” — Joe Getty [47:09]
• Joking on Space: “Get a cup of coffee and then you're all excited about it. Come on. Who wants to do some experiments?” — Jack Armstrong [47:52]

6. LGBTQ+ Discourse, Queer Theory, and Gavin Newsom’s Online Behavior

(32:43–41:27)

• Newsom’s Social Media Tactics: The California governor’s staff accused of using anti-gay jokes and insinuations online against conservative opponents.
  • Example: “We got a call from Grindr after this and said your team was their biggest users.” — Quoting Newsom’s press account [34:21]
• Ben Appel Editorial: Explains the distinction between being “gay” and “queer” in the context of academic theory and activism.
  • “I am gay, but I am not queer. My sexuality doesn't obligate me to embrace a particular ideology or reject the moral inheritance of the society that made my life possible.” — Ben Appel, read by Jack [40:27]
  • Critical theory treats norms as power structures; “queer” defined as anything at odds with the normal, legitimate, or dominant.
  • “The members of Queers for Palestine know that Hamas would imprison or execute them for their sexuality. But they share a common enemy: Israel and America…” — Ben Appel, paraphrased [39:50]
  • “My favorite point: Progress happens by acknowledging shared human values and working within our reality rather than declaring war on it.” — Jack [41:00]
• Recommendation: Brief shoutout to James Lindsay and the book Cynical Theories for deeper understanding.

7. Sports and Health Anecdotes

(20:44–21:49)

• Luka Doncic’s NBA injury and its potential impact on the Lakers’ playoffs.
• Injuries: hamstring and Achilles tendon talk with real-life examples and health technology (wheeled knee walkers).

8. Other Topical Bits & Satire

• Skewering “everyone gets a trophy” culture.
• Poking fun at progressive social strategy and left-wing hypocrisy.
• Jokes about the use of the word “defecate” on the program [32:31].
• Ending the show with comedic asides about conspiracy theories regarding the Moon landing and recommendations for the show's podcast version.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Our hippopotamus is shrinking.” — Jack Armstrong [03:54], playing on “hippocampus” to humorous effect
• “You got to use your brain. Use it or lose it.” — Jack Armstrong [06:43]
• “Sit there with your skinny little Timothee Chalamet arms hanging at your side while a robot puts food in your mouth.” — Joe Getty [08:15]
• “For years Harvard has been handing out A’s like their participation trophies.” — Jack Armstrong [11:26]
• “We want to liberate students from the tyranny of the 4.0 and make them free to explore.” — Harvard committee via Jack [16:14]
• “Government is a for-profit enterprise. It's like the Clinton Foundation.” — Jack Armstrong [30:54]
• “I am gay, but I am not queer… Progress happens by acknowledging shared human values and working within our reality rather than declaring war on it.” — Ben Appel, read by Jack [40:27]
• “If you missed a segment, the podcast: Armstrong and Getty On Demand.” — Joe Getty [48:32], plugging their show

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Timestamps by Segment

• 03:07–08:23: Effects of smartphones, navigation, and automation on memory and attention
• 10:13–16:43: Harvard grading reform debate and what’s driving grade inflation
• 20:44–21:49: Sports injuries (NBA & real-life health stories)
• 27:29–31:38: Medicare/hospice fraud and government accountability
• 32:43–41:27: LGBTQ+ politics, queer theory, Newsom’s messaging, Ben Appel op-ed
• 44:56–48:10: Artemis 2 Moon mission update, astronaut life, hosts’ reactions
• Scattered: Satirical rants, running gags (defecate count, procrastination with returns, conspiracy jokes)

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Tone & Style

True to Armstrong & Getty’s trademark mix, the episode swings from biting satire and sarcasm to genuine curiosity and frustration with modern trends. The language is informal, wry, and deeply conversational, with frequent asides and meta-commentary.

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Summary Takeaway

If you missed the show, you’ll walk away aware of how technology usage might be literally shrinking your (hippocampus), how grade inflation reflects and reinforces “customer” attitudes in higher ed, and how debates about identity and ideology—whether in Ivy League classrooms or on political Twitter—keep getting more complicated, and more absurd. Meanwhile, humanity’s still shooting for the moon—with brisket and couscous on the menu.

Transcript

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[Joe Getty]

broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at

[Jack Armstrong]

the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Getty. I broke up with my iPhone for two weeks and fooled around with an

[Joe Getty]

old school flip phone. But this forces friction into your life. It takes away all that ease. It was really excruciating at first.

[Jack Armstrong]

But then we went back and the

[Joe Getty]

brain tests were really staggering. Even the experts are surprised by the difference. Your hippocampus, the part of your brain that creates memories shrinking. Because we use Google Maps, we don't

[Jack Armstrong]

navigate the world the way our ancestors did.

[Joe Getty]

Our focus has gone from about two and a half minutes. People could focus on something year 2000 or so. Now it's around 47 seconds. Our hippopotamus is shrinking.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's correct. Yeah. Lack of water to the Nile. That's Bill Weir. Really interesting story.

[Joe Getty]

So what was the last stat? I'm sorry Katie, what was the last stat they had there about our attention span?

[Jack Armstrong]

Obviously I couldn't pay attention. Oh my God, the irony. Police have been alerted. Jack couldn't pay attention long enough to a story about attention span.

[Joe Getty]

Well, I was thinking about my hippopotamus joke.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh boy. The the average tense attention span has shrunk from 2 1/2 minutes to 47 seconds.

[Joe Getty]

I'm surprised it's as long as that.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, I know that. The shrinking hippocampus stuff. I've become convinced of that. In fact, I remember that study made a hell of an impression on me that cabbies who tended who knew the city and didn't use navigation systems showed markedly less Alzheimer's disease dementia in general than than cabbies who didn't in a big study.

[Joe Getty]

I know some that doesn't surprise me. But I know somebody. Remember our old producer Dominic Evil, evil Dominic who's now dead. Good.

[Jack Armstrong]

He's back like Trump with who's that? He said even glad he's dead.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, he said that about Robert Mueller?

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, that's right. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

But I am glad Dominic's dead. But our Google it. You'll agree if you look into it. But he used GPS to get to work and he lived. Not exaggerating. Like three blocks from the radio station.

[Jack Armstrong]

Correct.

[Joe Getty]

And he used GPS every single day to get to work and to get back home.

[Jack Armstrong]

And a few years.

[Joe Getty]

And I thought that was extraordinary. And I just found out the other day somebody I know really, really well, I won't say who. It was shocking to me.

[Jack Armstrong]

Uses it for everything.

[Joe Getty]

In their own town where they've lived for years, going places they've gone hundreds of times. They use it. And I just wonder about our shrinking brains. Or you know, where the hippos go to class. Hippocampus.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yes, Very wise. Sidewalks or whatever is going on there.

[Joe Getty]

Yes, Katie.

[Jack Armstrong]

So there have been a few times where I will be going somewhere where I absolutely know how to get there.

[Joe Getty]

But I'll turn on ways just to check traffic.

[Jack Armstrong]

Was that why I was using it?

[Joe Getty]

That's not, that's not what's happening in this particular.

[Jack Armstrong]

Because he was showing up to work at 4:00 in the morning. Yeah. Three blocks.

[Joe Getty]

Or this person I know who I will not name. That's not, that's not the reason they're doing it. To check traffic.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow. Okay. Yeah. I wonder about that. Wow. Bad for your brain. You got to use your brain. Use it or lose it.

[Joe Getty]

I don't know very many people or I haven't heard from very many people who use self driving all the time like I do. I use it every single day. I thought I, I thought it was pointless. Now I use it every single day. And I drove my regular truck, my Ford F250 diesel yesterday to go pick something up and it seemed so ponderous to have to pay attention and drive.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh wow. I know.

[Joe Getty]

How crazy is that? How crazy is that? Just seems like, wow, I gotta pay it. I gotta watch the road the entire way. Can't check my emails or whatever. It's. It's changing our brains. You're gonna hear more about that as more people get self driving. It's. It's changing our brains. Uh, not good.

[Jack Armstrong]

And these are among the first studies I've heard looking into this phenomenon. I think it will be more and more. And the science will be more and more settled. I, I hope I haven't ruined my brain by the time, you know, we all hear this stuff. But yeah, that, that will be conventional wisdom soon. That you don't rely on the damn thing for something you could use your brain for instead. I mean, it'd be like me having a robot. And every time I had to lift something more than ten pounds, I'd say, joe Bot. Joe bot. Please lift this for me. I can't be troubled. What do you think that would do to my arms?

[Joe Getty]

Sit there with your skinny little Timothee Chalamet arms hanging at your side while a robot puts food in your mouth.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yes. That's the ultimate, isn't it? Yeah, exactly. Oh, speaking of smartphones, I was reading another piece about how the Democrats. I thought they'd stop doing this, but apparently they've doubled down on their let's use the F word a lot to show how earthy and regular guy we all are. How angry we are. Exactly. So there's been more of that, but here's my favorite one. Nevada Democratic Congresswoman Susie Lee, who calls herself America's number one most bipartisan member of Congress. That's how she characterizes herself. I like bipartisanship. That's fine. She wrote this in a 1am social media post about Trump's trip to the Supreme Court on birthright citizenship. Quote, so effing effed up. I'll pray they F him to his face. Sorry, I say F a lot these days. But she spelled it out, obviously.

[Joe Getty]

Was that four so far?

[Jack Armstrong]

Yes. At 1am Lee deleted the post, but defended it in a 10am Follow up, saying, my nerve was touched by the attacks on our Constitution and its separation of powers.

[Joe Getty]

I think you're a little drunky.

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Drunk.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay. I was gonna say it sounds like your nerves were touched by vodka. Yeah. Katie's the winner. Katie wins.

[Joe Getty]

Katie wins the staff joke of the day.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well done, Katie. Congratulations. We'll be ordering a plaque on Amazon. It will come with a misprint. We'll vow to return it and then never get around to it. So let's. Let's be realistic.

[Joe Getty]

God, I do that. Way too much

[Jack Armstrong]

stack of things to return. And I ended up taking them to Goodwill. I was like, I'm never gonna do this. Right. Let's be realistic.

[Joe Getty]

30 days or 60 days or 90 days or whatever passes, and I think, geez, what a waste of money.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. Yeah. Speaking of brain power, maybe this is the time to get to this. If I were a better person, I would not feel so delighted and smug about this. But I'm not. I'm not that person. I'm a bad person. The headline is, harvard's push to cap A grades has students howling in protest. We'll tell you about that in a moment after a word from our friends at Simplisafe. Supposed to be so blank and smart. Go out and get an A. Anyway, titled bastard. Simplisafe home security is the best. It is the best. It is also very affordable and it is also intent on earning your business every single day. No long term contracts. That's how good SimpliSafe is.

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[Joe Getty]

Well, does this article include those numbers we mentioned a couple weeks ago? How much it changed from the early 2000s? I mean, it's just amazing.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's see. They want to cap the number of A's per course at 20%, plus an additional four A's to account for smaller courses with more variability. Those are like your A's to be named later. I don't know if you need them. It comes after a report released in the fall that found that 60% of grades were A's in all classes last school year. 60%. That's up from 25% in 2005. 2006. In the last 1980s. Right.

[Joe Getty]

In the last two decades they went from a quarter of the people to get A's to the majority. Easily get A's.

[Jack Armstrong]

Solid majority. Yes. I mean, that is ridiculous. It is mockable.

[Joe Getty]

Well, and imagine it's humiliating. Well, you can't blame the kids. But imagine how if you're a straight A student at Harvard. You think you've got the world by the tail, man, I'm gonna walk out of here and just run the world. I'm a straight A student at freaking Harvard.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, and again, as much as I would like to smugly judge the kids, and don't worry, folks, I will. They did not raise themselves. They did not decide that everybody should get a trophy. This is the flowering of the everybody gets a trophy generations. Well, what.

[Joe Getty]

What drives this?

[Jack Armstrong]

So they're saying, I'm sorry, to complete the thought. They're saying, whoa, I've gotten nothing but A's my entire school career. It's kind of the default if you don't get an A. That's like getting a D. And now you're changing the rules on me now that I'm an undergrad and I. They're. They're. They gotta suck it up. But it's not like they have no point. No.

[Joe Getty]

And, well, they. They grow up in schools where they hand out A's like crazy. You know, grade school and high school, they give out A's. Similar numbers, I would guess.

[Jack Armstrong]

Sure. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

You put in some effort, you do a pretty good job. Like, you fulfill the minimum requirements and you will get an A. Well, that. If that has been what you've been taught your whole life.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right, right. The. The teacher swinging their Chardonnay out of their disguised cup after a day of school. I don't think.

[Joe Getty]

I don't want to.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't know. I guarantee it. I don't want to argue with some parent over why their genius got a B. Screwed. I'm giving them A. I don't. But so what drives it?

[Joe Getty]

Is it the whole you get a better rating as a teacher thing, or.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's a lot of it, yeah. Parents complain. I remember back in my day, which was not the 1930s, we were lucky to be at a quote, unquote, elite university. Make no mistake, I wasn't in the program that made my university elite at all. But it was an elite university. We were glad to be there and hung on for dear life to stay there. Now they're customers. They're like customers at an expensive resort. And so they're lots of money. Now I'm going to make a joke that most Harvard kids wouldn't get because they're so dopey. Thanks to the great inflation, about half of Harvard undergrad students are against this change. 94%. 94% oppose the policy to cap A's.

[Joe Getty]

You gotta be kidding.

[Jack Armstrong]

No.

[Joe Getty]

So almost all the students think, no, they should they should hand out 60% ACE.

[Jack Armstrong]

What? Martin Puckner, an English professor who probably teaches all day about decolonizing the deconstruction of white supremacist literal literature. He supports the cap because the corrosive effects of grade inflation. You're right. People laugh when they hear you have a college diploma anyway. He said. This is the mildest measure imaginable.

[Joe Getty]

I don't doubt it.

[Jack Armstrong]

And they're 94% against it. Wow. Interestingly, final point. This other Harvard psych professor, member of the committee behind the proposal, likens it to starting college with a new car and trying to go four years without a scratch. You're not going to take it off road. You're not going to do anything interesting with it. He said. Boy, this guy's worthy of teaching at Harvard. The proposal wouldn't limit A minuses, only A's. The grading proposal committee said this will make A minuses more common and therefore less taboo. We want to liberate students from the tyranny of the 4.0 and make them free to explore.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, that's true.

[Jack Armstrong]

Then he says something that ought to earn him a punch in the stomach. We want to put the US Back in a minus. First he makes this great point. Then he says that come on, let's see.

[Joe Getty]

Did that. Knowing how jivey that is, he might.

[Jack Armstrong]

But I love that point. Let the kids try something they might

[Joe Getty]

not be great at.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's what a university education's supposed to be. Well said, sir. Well said.

[Joe Getty]

I'm sure there is pressure to take classes. You know you're going to get a gay in. Of course. 4.0. Yeah. NBA playoffs may have changed with an injury last night. Briefly touch on that. Lots of stuff on the ways to here.

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[Joe Getty]

me your funniest joke Michael. This is going to be on you if I don't laugh.

[Jack Armstrong]

Uh oh wow. NASA just successfully launched a historic 10 day mission around the moon. But this is true.

[Joe Getty]

Get this. Shortly after launch launched the toilet aboard

[Jack Armstrong]

the Artemis 2 rocket broke. Yeah, suddenly went from a billion dollar rocket to a Carnival Cruise in space,

[Joe Getty]

maybe.

[Jack Armstrong]

I chuckled.

[Joe Getty]

You did just have to jiggle the handle. It's amazing how much that can fix. You just got to jiggle the handle a little.

[Jack Armstrong]

You're a hard chuckle. Oh, yeah. Wow.

[Joe Getty]

NBA playoffs may have changed. They start here pretty soon. There's only a couple of games left. Luka Doncic, MVP candidate for the Lakers. I went down with an injury last night and looked bad. Hamstring, which those not heal fast. And that would. Well, that might end the Lakers run. Might be the end of LeBron's career.

[Jack Armstrong]

Hamstring is the classic. I think I'm ready to go coach, then re injured again. Injury. Yeah, always happens.

[Joe Getty]

Doesn't seem to be any way to hurry those up either.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, no. It's a big old grizzly. Massive muscle. Trust me, mine are like a horse's. I mean, really, really impressive.

[Joe Getty]

Anyway, I know somebody the other day, and she's pretty. She's probably like 40. She just, like, stepping off a stair ruptured her Achilles.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, my God.

[Joe Getty]

And that's supposed to be a bad one. That's supposed to be a really painful one.

[Jack Armstrong]

It takes a long time to heal. I've done it.

[Joe Getty]

Although now they got those cool things. You put you with the wheels on them and you just bend your leg and put your knee on it. You can just wheel yourself around. I see those a lot of places.

[Jack Armstrong]

It looks kind of a hell of a lot better than crutches.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Which are awful. Coming up, another kicking for Gavin Newsom, the great champion of lgbtq. I M, I, A, L, B, G plus minus over the power of three. Right. He is surprisingly, quote unquote, homophobic online.

[Joe Getty]

What?

[Jack Armstrong]

And I never use the term homophobic. If it were anybody not a progressive saying the things his account says online, the gay rights people would be up in arms

[Joe Getty]

so quickly. We can look at the latest polling on the war. People ain't digging it. And it's going the wrong direction, of course, with endless negative news coverage. I don't know why you'd be surprised about that. Roughly 2/3 of Americans now disapprove of the U.S. decision to take military action in Iran.

[Jack Armstrong]

I hate even asking this question. What's the take been on TikTok, where so many people get their news?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, well, I know it's probably relentlessly

[Jack Armstrong]

negative because it's sponsored by the communist

[Joe Getty]

Chinese on mainstream media. So the polling at the end of February, 31% strongly disapprove of us doing what we're doing in Iran. It is now 43% in one month it went up 12 points for strongly disapprove. Does Trump have a clear plan for ending the war? Hasn't moved a lot, but it has gone up to Now a full 2/367% says does not have a clear plan for handling the situation in our end. So of course if you again, if you take in media, any of the mainstream media, they repeat that all day long, every day. Why would you think anything different?

[Jack Armstrong]

Right. Right. Yeah. Troubling. I would, you know, suggest to people that the the administration and the military have a set of plans that they will implement depending on how the plans progress. That's the nature of war. But I would, I would admit this as a citizen. I don't feel like we've been presented with a clear plan. Right.

[Joe Getty]

But I'm still at the if things would have to go really, really, really bad before, I would get to the we shouldn't have done this point.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Since it was so awful and it was never going to be easier to try to do something about it.

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[Jack Armstrong]

News is first to report the arrest today of a married couple in Southern California accused of ripping off Medicare for nearly seven and a half million dollars through a series of fraudulent Hospice claims. Over 700 hospices in Los Angeles county alone have red flags for fraud, according to our investigative team. In this particular case, the flags included a five year survival rate of 97% high for what is supposed to be end of life care. The FBI says additional arrests are expected. Oh my God. Either that or like take your loved one there because obviously they've been touched by God.

[Joe Getty]

On this Good Friday, we have a new savior. And they're at all the different hospitals in LA county because they can keep you alive for five years or more when you're supposedly in your final days of life, which is usually what hospice care is for.90. What do you say?

[Jack Armstrong]

97%? Whatever it was. Yeah, people stayed there years.

[Joe Getty]

Oh my God. Seven hundred hospice facilities have a red flag by CBS's standards, which are probably more generous than mine.

[Jack Armstrong]

And here's where I make you want to punch yourself in the face or somebody. And your neighbor is. Next time your neighbor hears we need to raise taxes to provide more care for the elderly, they'll say, oh, yeah, that's the way we should raise taxes. Yeah, the rich should pay their fair share. Anyway, on a lighter note. I know, I know, and it's laughable. And, you know, it's worth pointing out that it was, you know, right wingy independent online types who really broke this story. And then Fox News jumped on it. I remember we featured William Laginess's terrific report and now CBS News is on it saying, oh, this is outrageous, the most interesting thing.

[Joe Getty]

And then I'll shut up on this Good Friday because we talk about this all the time. The most interesting thing is that you can do endless stories about taxpayer money being Steve stolen from them and, and nobody gets worked up enough. It just, it just doesn't land. We all just, and for whatever reason, I don't know if we just feel like it's too big a mountain to climb or how would I, or even organized to do anything about it or what, but it just, we just put up with it. We just put up with.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah, that's part of it. I think there's a discouragement that sets in too because I'll skip the, like, description of it. But the reality of it is if you were to go to Washington D.C. having like, I don't know, dropped aerosol eyes truth serum on the entire thing from helicopters, and you got the president and like the leader of the Senate and the speaker of the House together. You said, dudes, you're wasting all of this money. I mean, there's scams and just. It's insane. And you're bilking the taxpayers and we're pissed off. But having had that truth serum, they'd all look at you and say, everybody here, everybody. You see all these buildings? Look at those buildings.

[Joe Getty]

Okay?

[Jack Armstrong]

All of us are in on it. Every single one of us. So hold your little demonstration and wave your little placard and have fun.

[Joe Getty]

That's what they would say. You're right about.

[Jack Armstrong]

Government is a for profit enterprise. It's like a, it's like the Clinton Foundation. It's a not for profit. The profit is the pay. The profit is siphoning money to your cronies and getting favors and board positions and everything in return. That's the scam, right?

[Joe Getty]

And you just. And it's so easy to play upon people's emotions, or at least, you know, you only have to have a half of people's emotions who aren't paying attention. I'll bet at some point during the whole Doge cuts, I'll bet at some point there was a headline and he's even looking at cutting funding for hospice care. Can you imagine anything more evil?

[Jack Armstrong]

I'll bet you're right.

[Joe Getty]

I'll bet there's a headline like that out there somewhere in 97 people stay

[Jack Armstrong]

there more than five years.

[Joe Getty]

That's some good hospice care, man.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'm telling you. Yeah, Mother Teresa must be the nurse there or something, touching their foreheads with divine intervention. Anyway, let's see. We'll skip what we're going to do. I want to get right to this because I want to make sure we have time. I love bashing Gavin Newsom because I think he would be a miserable, horrible president and he would ruin the entire country, as he and his party have ruined California to some extent. Anyway, it's still a wonderful place, but this one just can't ruin the weather. That's right. Or the scenery. Although. Nah, you could cover the scenery with junkies defecating and shooting up and accosting passersby. So you can't ruin the weather.

[Joe Getty]

I feel like somebody needs to keep track of how many times we've used a word or variant of defecate today and yesterday. I feel like it's like in the dozens.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, and perhaps grade it on how appropriate it was in that particular moment and which one of us may have abused it more than the other. If we're going to start keeping score.

[Joe Getty]

About 15 and a C minus. Oh, so. So.

[Jack Armstrong]

So there's going to be an amen.

[Joe Getty]

So there's going to be a gratuitous judging on this also.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yes. Yeah. Level of gratuity. Exactly. 100%. There you go. Now you've become part of the solution. So this is, you know, this is an example of lefty media hypocrisy, obviously, but it's just odd.

[Joe Getty]

So,

[Jack Armstrong]

Gov Gav of ready or not, here it comes about gay marriage. I don't care what the law is

[Joe Getty]

because I'm on the right side of history.

[Jack Armstrong]

The governor of California has a staff paid to hurl gay insults online at political opponents said in another way, the actual strategy of the Democratic leader, one of the most liberal states in America, is to have young employees publicly post extremely Offensive anti gay jokes. I like this line. Well, all it's doing is making Newsom look like an LGBTQIA hole.

[Joe Getty]

So I'm. I'm not following here.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, I haven't gotten to the examples yet. Okay, Governor Homophobe. Homophobe doesn't seem to mind trampling on the rainbow flag, blah, blah. Crudely suggesting his critics are gay or mocking gay conservatives out gay conservatives has become one of his team's go to tactics. Last month, responding to a clip of conservative Benny Johnson on Fox News speaking about the alleged fraud in California, the Did the X account smartly debate the issue? No, it made a crack about a gay hookup app, of course. Quote, we got a call from Grindr after this and said your team was their biggest users.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I remember that. And we. And we were flummoxed by it at the time.

[Jack Armstrong]

Let's see. When Johnson said he was coming to investigate the Golden State. We'll make sure Grindr servers are ready. They replied. Ick, they write.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I remember. We were. We were confused at the time about that because is Benny Johnson known to be gay or is he hiding being gay? And even if he was, why is that a problem?

[Jack Armstrong]

He's a very pretty man. I don't know. That same month when Treasury Secretary Scott Besant openly gay, highest gay, you know, cabinet member ever in the Trump admin, that so many gay people were convinced that Trump was going to try to take away your rights. I mean, my God. Anyway, when he traveled to the World Economic Forum in Davos, the governor's press office account posted, Scott Besant flew across the ocean to star in the Real Housewives of Davos and can't stop talking about how hot he thinks Gavin Newsom's Davos daddy Newsom is pathetic. There are a couple other examples, too.

[Joe Getty]

Do you have any idea why this is?

[Jack Armstrong]

Maybe his young staff is part of that that's gay or I don't generation. I don't know. I really don't know. Like I said, I just think it's odd. But much more important than this, I appreciate this editorial by Ben Apple, who's the author of a really intriguing sounding book, CIS White the Making of a Gender Heretic. And I appreciate it, partly because it's just well written and really honest, but because it makes a point I've been trying desperately to make. And it disturbs me how few people get this and how little it's talked about. He writes that when he was 29, in 2012, he was a big activist for gay marriage in Maryland, where he lived. And that November, his home state became one of the first to legalize same sex marriage by popular vote. He was euphoric and he wanted to keep that feeling going. He wanted to continue to crusade for good causes. And he got married. And he admitted to his husband that he. You haven't been listening anyway. That he felt stalled. He says, if I wanted to do serious work on behalf of gay people, I needed more than slogans and passion. I needed an education. So he went back to school. He got accepted to Columbia University School of General Studies. I arrived at Columbia in my 30s with the earnestness of a convert. I enrolled in courses like US Lesbian and Gay History and Muslim Masculinities, absorbing everything my instructors had to say about queerness until I learned what they actually meant by the term. Before Columbia, I would have dismissed right wing complaints about queer post colonial critical race or other critical theories as culture war hysteria. I soon came to understand that in Ivy League humanities classrooms, critical theories aren't fringe ideas ideas. They are foundational ideologies with real world political ambitions. This is what I'm always talking about with the postmodernist neo Marxists trying to take over institutions. He writes, critical theory treats moral norms, scientific categories and even common sense as product of power. It tells us that the only reason we believe certain things are true is because it serves the interest of dominant groups for us to believe them. It follows that liberation requires dismantling inherited forms of knowledge. Queer theory applies this approach to sexuality by framing sexual identity as a site of resistance. One of the earliest readings I encountered was by the theorist David Halperin, who defined queer as whatever is at odds with the normal, the legitimate, the dominant. That's what queer means. I'm fighting against the man and that's why I'm going to depart from the text a little bit. That's why so many middle school kids and high school kids are so strongly encouraged to embrace of the 57 so called genders, I'm Demi this or Peter Pan that or whatever, get them to identify with queer in whatever form. These often pre sexual kids want to get them on the side of I'm queer. And then to get back to the screed by the writer, then you, you teach them that to be queer means to be whatever is at odds with the normal, the legitimate, the dominant, and embrace all the critical theory stuff. And then he goes on, unless you have a comment at this point, Jack,

[Joe Getty]

I was just wondering where we would be if James Lindsay hadn't like started digging into this no, he's so good.

[Announcer]

Yeah, that's a great question. Well,

[Jack Armstrong]

then he points out that queer was a slur against gay people and it was reclaimed, quote, unquote, in the 80s by gay activists as a synonym for gay, saying, you can't hurt people. Me, by calling me queer. I'm going to call me queer. Most gay and lesbian Americans think what minorities have long sought, safety, dignity, stable relationships, et cetera. In queer politics, by contrast, it encourages deviation from social norms. Its definition of queer isn't that different from Archie Bunkers. Seen through this lens, contemporary phenomena that appear baffling begin to make sense. The members of Queers for Palestine know that Hamas would imprison or execute them for their sexuality. But they share a common enemy. In Israel and America, liberal democracy, capitalism, national borders, enlightenment, notions of truth are the primary enemy. Sexual politics is merely one front in a much broader civilizational study. And then he talks about how he grew uneasy with this when he realized what was actually happening. He said, I was gay. I had faced discrimination. I had fought for my rights. But now that gay rights had become LGBTQ rights, I found myself forced, teamed with a lot of people whose values were nothing like mine. I didn't experience my life as a rebellion against reality. I didn't want to be an identity insurgent. I wanted to participate in the world as a normal person. The most important thing I learned at Columbia was this. I am gay, but I am not queer. My sexuality doesn't obligate me to embrace a particular ideology or reject the moral inheritance of the society that made my life possible. Progress happens by acknowledging shared human values and working within our reality rather than declaring war on it. That is, as they say these days. Ben, apple for the win. Well written, Ben.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, that's pretty good.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's great. That, my friends, is what's happening. It's not some sort of right wingy Joe Getty fear or fantasy. For the millionth time, these people wrote books. They said exactly what they wanted to do. Their names are on the spine. They're in your library. What you are watching is what he just described. It's the capture of institutions by a radical political ideology.

[Joe Getty]

If you ever want to learn more about this, find some of James Lindsay's YouTube videos. It will blow your mind. It'll change the way you look at the world.

[Jack Armstrong]

If you like books like I do, his book with Helen Pluckrow's cynical theories is absolutely perfect.

[Joe Getty]

So we heard from the astronauts yesterday, and we can check in on the moon mission coming up. Among other things, Stay here Armstrong and

[Jack Armstrong]

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[Jack Armstrong]

Engine, good control and it's Go for the moon. For nearly six minutes, Orion's main engine fired with 6,000 pounds of thrust to give the capsule a 900 mile an hour boost, sending it and its four astronauts on a path around the moon. Humanity has once again shown what we are capable of. The translunar injection burn also sets up Orion's return to Earth. Mission Control can make small adjustments to the course to set it up for reentry.

[Joe Getty]

I need a little more show biz out of that guy. Humanity has once again demonstrated what we are capable of. Here's a little more on the Moon Report.

[Jack Armstrong]

We all wanted to give a shout out to our families first because we are pretty far from Earth and we

[Joe Getty]

have not gotten to say hi to them yet.

[Jack Armstrong]

Overnight, the Artemis crew spoke to the media from space about the journey so far.

[Announcer]

Having just experienced incredible views of planet Earth and seeing the entire planet out the window in one pane, knowing that

[Jack Armstrong]

we're about to have some similar views

[Announcer]

of the moon in the that same

[Jack Armstrong]

way is definitely getting me more excited for it. We're just getting started. You know, we've worked really hard and we have a lot of mission left ahead of us.

[Joe Getty]

One of the reasons I wanted to play that is so you could hear how incredibly clear the conversation is.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's funny, I was about to say, other than a little background hiss, it sounds like they're in the same room, right?

[Joe Getty]

With a spaceship hurdling toward the moon. So I have a feeling it's what's going to be way different from this than a half a century ago is they're going to be like, like hovering around the moon and having a conversation with Tony de Coppel or whoever the heck, and with just unbelievable HD pictures and it's going to be really cool.

[Jack Armstrong]

I hope they can spare an hour or so to like record stuff to be used in classrooms. No?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, let's.

[Jack Armstrong]

Let's fire kids up about science and space exploration.

[Joe Getty]

Of course.

[Jack Armstrong]

I know you're really wondering off our moon.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, China, I know you're wondering what kind of salad they're eating. We have that info. The four astronauts on the Orion spacecraft, which they have named Integrity, woke up Thursday to the song Sleep, Sleepyhead. The crew started their second day after sleeping in four hour shifts and exercising on a flywheel device to do squats, deadlifts and rowing. And they're settling into an extensive food menu that includes coffee, smoothies, quiche, beef

[Jack Armstrong]

brisket, even mango salad and couscous with nuts.

[Joe Getty]

Couscous with nuts, you say coffee. Kind of surprised by that.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't know why I wouldn't think,

[Joe Getty]

you know, if you, if you, if

[Jack Armstrong]

you, if you're a coffee person, you

[Joe Getty]

need the stimulant and you get a little cranky if you don't get the right amount or too much or. I just wouldn't think you'd want to be messing with the body like that,

[Jack Armstrong]

even if I'm in space. A little cup of java to start the day. Come on now. That's part of waking up.

[Joe Getty]

Look out the window first thing in the morning after your four hours of sleep. Same day, different moon. Jesus, give me some coffee.

[Jack Armstrong]

Another day, another hundred thousand miles.

[Joe Getty]

Get a cup of coffee and then you're all excited about it. Come on. Who wants to do some experiments?

[Jack Armstrong]

I. I can't wait to hear more. I want to hear more. I'm loving this. Let's have live team coverage of it and stop worrying about crap that doesn't matter.

[Joe Getty]

I think they get to the moon Monday and that's when we'll start getting the live coverage from right around the moon.

[Jack Armstrong]

You know the moon is right up there. You can see it. It seems crazy. Would take several days to get to it, doesn't it?

[Joe Getty]

At that speed especially. But it's 255,000 miles away allegedly. Oh, so you're on the this is all tells you this is all fake. Yeah, the audio is good. They're in a Hollywood sound studio.

[Jack Armstrong]

I've been listening to Kansas Candace Owens. She's opened my eyes.

[Joe Getty]

Exactly. If you missed a segment the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand.

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