Pathetic Bean Junkie

Summary

Armstrong & Getty On Demand – "Pathetic Bean Junkie"

Date: April 24, 2026
Hosts: Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty
Producer/Contributor: Katie Green
Episode Theme: A blend of world affairs, the nature of American attention (and inattention), generational attitudes, personal anecdotes, headlines, and simmering cultural concerns—delivered in Armstrong & Getty’s trademark irreverence.

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Episode Overview

The episode’s main theme is American distraction and detachment in the face of serious global events, notably the ongoing war involving Iran and broader geopolitical blockades. Armstrong and Getty examine why Americans seem disengaged, what stakes are truly at play, and how past successes may be breeding societal complacency. The hosts also weave in cultural observations, personal stories (including pregnancy and coffee habits), and a rapid-fire spin through news headlines, all seasoned with sharp-witted banter.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Coffee Addiction & Substitutes for Vice

• Armstrong’s “Bean Junkie” Confession: Jack opens the content segment with an ode to coffee, describing it humorously yet sincerely as a near-addiction and noting its role as a safer vice compared to alcohol for him.
  • Quote: "This is my thing now. Coffee is my thing... You got to have a thing and it's less dangerous, obviously." (03:30)

2. Prediction Markets, Rutabagas, and Out-of-Control Gaming

• Joe’s Rutabaga Bet: Lighthearted banter about betting on saying "rutabaga" highlights both the ridiculousness and ubiquity of prediction markets.
• Quote:
  • Armstrong: "Prediction markets are out of control." (03:59)
  • Getty: "You made $80,000 on that?" (04:01)

3. U.S. at War, Blockade Strategy, and Clarity from Leadership

• War with Iran: The hosts turn to serious global events: U.S. blockades, Iranian nuclear ambitions, and mounting conflict.
• Peggy Noonan Critique: There’s frustration at government communication failures, with praise for Peggy Noonan's call for clarity.
  • Quote: "Peggy Noonan just blasted the White House in her eloquent way, as she always does, for lack of clarity and bringing the American people along." (04:51)
• Stakes of War:
  • Armstrong: "They can’t have a nuclear weapon. That’s why we’re doing this. The end. Any other questions?" (05:09)
  • Getty: "Meanwhile, they’ve killed more Americans than any other country... they continue to spread death and hatred throughout the world." (05:28)
• Media Critique:
  • Getty: "So much better than the jackassery you get from the mainstream media. Everywhere you look: jackassery." (06:18)

4. Personal Life & Team Banter

• Katie’s Maternity Leave: Teasing and awkward sharing about who gets the first text when Katie delivers her baby.
  • Katie (colorful moment): "I don’t want anyone there as I am… shooting him out of the cooter." (08:12)
  • This gets a major reaction from Armstrong and Getty, highlighting the show’s willingness to embrace uncomfortable honesty.
  • Armstrong jokes about the jarring shift from Sarah Vaughan’s jazz to Katie’s blunt description (08:57).

5. Societal Apathy, Comfort & Fragility

• National Apathy:
  • Armstrong: "My life is... I feel very comfortable. My nation is under threat. I don’t need to pay attention to anything really, any, anywhere, anytime other than my own standard of living." (12:24)
  • Getty: "Everything is optional. Everything is to amuse us." (13:00)
• Complacency & Fragility:
  • Armstrong: "We’ve lost the concept of the fragility of what we have built. It could fall apart so quickly and not come back for like 500 years." (13:13)
  • Getty proposes a coming featurette about theft and its deeper societal meaning.

6. News Headlines with Katie Green (Lead Story Segment: 17:25)

Quick summaries and banter on hot news, including:

• War and Blockades: Updates from major broadcasters—ceasefires, global stakes, U.S. naval strategies, and financial collapse in Iran due to blocked oil revenue.
• U.S. Soldier Bets $400k on Overseas Ops ([19:19]):
  • Armstrong: "You’d hope a special forces dude isn’t going to do that sort of thing."
• Meta Lays Off 8,000, Doubles Down on AI:
  • Armstrong: "Where’s that universal basic income for those people? They just lost their jobs because of AI." (19:50)
• Weird Science and Odd News: Cocaine-supplemented salmon, tourists trapped in sewage, the brain reading emojis as faces, and a Babyon Bee satire about Gavin Newsom.

7. Clips of the Week (25:49–29:01)

A rapid-fire montage, featuring:

• Robot sports, missing scientists, airplane bailouts, homelessness grades for politicians, and “gastronomic” takes on water and government response.

8. Midterms Obsession and Real-Life Disconnect

• Armstrong and Getty gently ridicule the media and political class for overemphasizing the importance of midterms to regular Americans.
  • Getty: "Who’s in control of the treasury, of handing out your tax dollars? That’s all anybody cares about. That’s it." (30:34–30:35)

9. America’s Readiness for War

• A sobering conversation about whether the U.S. public is emotionally prepared for military losses and the ugly realities of major conflict.
  • Armstrong: "If we’re even going to ask a question like [could soldiers be killed], we are not prepared for what we’re about to do as a country." (32:39)
  • Getty: "Good times make for soft people." (33:06)

10. Economic Pain—But Worse Elsewhere

• Armstrong: “What it’s doing to the global economy, it isn’t bothering us near as much as it is the rest of the world. And it could reach a tipping point very, very soon.” (33:56)

11. Junkies, Homeless Policy & Societal Messages

• Soft Hearts, Wrong Solutions:
  • Ongoing frustration with how cities and citizens address the “homeless” problem, conflating addiction, poverty, and mental illness.
  • Getty: “When you lump together the poor, the addicted, and the mentally ill, you fail all three.” (45:34)
  • Armstrong: “There's all kinds of places in the towns around here where you can go and get food. They want to buy more booze or drugs with that money...” (45:01)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Coffee as Addiction Substitute: (03:30)
  “I wonder if it’s because I’m as an alcoholic who hasn’t had a drink in almost 20 years. This is my thing now.”

• On War’s Endgame: (05:09)
  "They can’t have a nuclear weapon. That’s why we’re doing this. The end. Any other questions?”

• On Societal Apathy: (13:00)
  "I think we've lost any sense of necessity as a country. Nothing seems necessary. Everything is optional. Everything is to amuse us."

• On Family Delivery Rooms: (08:12)
  Katie: "I don’t want anyone there as I am shooting him out of the cooter.” Armstrong (reacting): “Oh, good Lord!”

• On Fragility: (13:13)
  "We've lost the concept of the fragility of what we have built... could fall apart so quickly and not come back for like 500 years."

• On Law Enforcement and Street Living: (44:10)
  Getty: "Down where I live, which is just outside of Portland, there are zero street junkies. You know why? Because the cops enforce the law."

• On Charity and Street Addicts: (45:01)
  Armstrong: "Half the people give the drug addict money..."
  Getty: "Because you have a soft head."

• Topical Satire:
  Getty on Meta AI layoffs: “Right. And there’s super pressure within Meta2 that everybody has to be using AI and demonstrate how they’re using it every single day.” (20:00)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

| Segment/Event | Timestamp | |----------------------------------------------|---------------| | Coffee monologue, “bean junkie” | 02:52–03:30 | | War talk, blockades, and government clarity | 04:03–06:20 | | Katie Green maternity leave convo | 06:20–09:13 | | U.S. apathy & societal comfort discussion | 11:05–13:35 | | Lead Story: News roundtable | 17:25–21:30 | | Shock headlines: salmon & sewage | 20:11–20:47 | | Clips of the Week montage | 26:05–29:01 | | Complacency about military action | 32:39–33:23 | | Homelessness & street addicts | 41:54–46:36 |

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Tone and Style

Irreverent, smart, occasionally biting but often affable, Armstrong & Getty balance national concern with dad-joke riffs and deadpan cultural critique. They move quickly—juxtaposing hard news, absurd headlines, and personal anecdotes—fostering a feeling of eavesdropping on sharply observant friends who aren’t afraid to call out American self-delusion, or crack each other up live on air.

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For Listeners Who Missed It

• The episode offers a thought-provoking look at why Americans tune out even the gravest news.
• Listeners will find a blend of sharp political/historical analysis and playful, uncensored conversation about everyday life and cultural oddities.
• Memorable moments include their lampooning of public detachment from war, open talk about birth and family, and exasperation with both policymakers and public enablers regarding homelessness and public order.

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Further Topics Mentioned for Later in the Show

• A “featurette” on theft and social decline
• Military expert Mike Lyons on the war’s real stakes
• The economic pinch and its looming global consequences

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End Note:
This episode of Armstrong & Getty is a must for fans who appreciate equal parts current affairs, social satire, and honest talk, all delivered at a pace that rewards close listening.

Transcript

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[Joe Getty]

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[Jack Armstrong]

Oh my God, this is good. Have you ever had this? They take up There's a bean grow lots of places in the world. It's really good in South America. But they take this bean and they pour hot water over it and then the juice that comes out of it.

[Joe Getty]

It's so delicious.

[Jack Armstrong]

The bean after you pour the hot water through it and it's so delicious and it's, it's almost addictive. It's so good. Anyway, I just had a big sip of it and it was so awe

[Joe Getty]

inspiring Jack Armstrong loves coffee.

[Jack Armstrong]

I do. I really do love coffee.

[Joe Getty]

I think it might be junkie.

[Jack Armstrong]

I wonder if it's because I'm as an alcoholic who hasn't had a drink like almost 20 years. This is my thing now. Coffee is my thing.

[Joe Getty]

Could be.

[Jack Armstrong]

You got to have a thing and it's less dangerous thing, obviously. Anyway, live from Studio C. See, senor, A dimly lit room deep within the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty communication compound. And today we are toiling under the title of the show. On a Friday.

[Joe Getty]

I just bet 50k that I'd say rutabaga. Rutabaga.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, my God.

[Joe Getty]

Prediction markets are out of control.

[Jack Armstrong]

You made $80,000 on that?

[Joe Getty]

Yes. Alternate title. Blockades are boring TV as America can't pay attention even to a war.

[Jack Armstrong]

No kidding. That. That's a little disturbing, actually.

[Joe Getty]

That's beyond a little disturbing. And to the extent that they are paying attention, they're going about it exactly wrong, thinking it's all about the tangerine tornado and not the incredible stakes.

[Jack Armstrong]

The Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, just did a little press conference. I'm sure we have clips of it. But he said the blockade has gone global. That gets into the whole stopping ships, different places around the world in the ocean that came out of Iran. And the war does not end, he said, until Iran has given up their nuclear weapons program. That is the. The thing.

[Joe Getty]

Well, it's about time we had a little damn straight communication about the purpose, the strategy, the end, the goals, whatever, even if they're not 100% sure. Peggy Noonan just blasted the White House in her eloquent way, as she always does, for lack of clarity and bringing the American people along. It's a legit criticism.

[Jack Armstrong]

I think it always was the reason. But I don't know why they didn't just state it more clearly from the very beginning. They can't have a nuclear weapon. That's why we're doing this. The end. Any other questions? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. They can't have a nuclear weapon. That's why we're doing this. Anybody else?

[Joe Getty]

Meanwhile, they've killed more Americans than any other country on Earth and they continue to spread death and hatred throughout the world. So that's why.

[Jack Armstrong]

Including to their own people. But that's not why we launched a war. It's because we can't let them have nuclear weapons. The end. So we got more on that coming up a little bit later. We're gonna talk to Mike Lyons, friend of the Armstrong, and getty show who we have on all the time. And he has a great piece in the Wall Street Journal today. Good for him.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, yeah, yeah. I was reading the editorials in the Journal and saw Mike Lyons. And I said, mike Lyons. And sure enough, it's a great piece about the war. Yeah. Really interesting about the real stakes and the likely legacy of it from a military perspective. So much better than the jackassery you get from the mainstream media. Everywhere you look, jackassery.

[Jack Armstrong]

Everywhere you look, jackassery. How are you doing, Katie?

[Katie Green]

Oh, I'm just fine.

[Jack Armstrong]

How long do we have before you go on maternity leave? A week. That's what I was thinking. We only have many more days left with you, and then you disappear.

[Katie Green]

Then I vanish.

[Joe Getty]

Yes. Yes.

[Jack Armstrong]

Not for long, though. I assume you'll text us now and then say, hey, got a baby. By the way, how's things going?

[Katie Green]

Yeah, you guys are on the first of the list to see Jack, Joe, Mike.

[Jack Armstrong]

Mike. Don't worry. That's a big deal. That's a big deal. I can remember who was on my list. I hadn't made a list, like, on purpose or anything like that. I didn't actually literally make a list. But there's, you know, there's people in your mind that. And then that. That first group of people, you let know what happened.

[Katie Green]

You know, it's interesting the amount of people that would like to be there as I'm bringing him into the world, and I'm like, what?

[Jack Armstrong]

It gets to be a little bit like inviting people to your wedding. Who. Who's. Who's in? Who'?

[Joe Getty]

Boy. I. I remember when Judy and I were both birthing, we became. She was birthing, I was assisting, but not in. Not much. But we became aware that in some families, yeah, mom comes along and various other loved ones for the. The happy occasion. And, you know, I don't hate it. You know, I. I get it, but don't want it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Some. Some people do that, I guess. Yeah, they have. You got, you know, mom and dad of the person actually having the baby come out of them there or whoever.

[Joe Getty]

Giving birth is the way we generally refer to that, Jack. But having the baby come out of them. Good Lord.

[Jack Armstrong]

And then some people. It was just me and her. There was nobody else there. And the medical professionals.

[Katie Green]

I believe the very mature way that I said it is that I don't want anyone there as I am.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, no.

[Katie Green]

Shooting him out of the cooter.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, good Lord.

[Joe Getty]

She's very pregnant. Her brain not working right.

[Jack Armstrong]

Could somebody put that to Music that is lyrical.

[Joe Getty]

It was like poetry. Yeah. I'd like to apologize for the poor. I'm not pregnant lady.

[Jack Armstrong]

So funny. On Fridays, I listen to music when I drive to work. For some reason, I think, you know what? I'm not doing news today. I'm doing music. I do that on Friday mornings. So. Coming into the parking lot today, I'm listening to Sarah Vaughan sing Polka Dots and Moonbeams.

[Joe Getty]

Wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, there's something jarring in my brain about going from Sarah Vaughn's Polka Dots and movies to Katie saying, get out of my cooter.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, and you repeated it. I mean, Michael, do you want to start a show together? A show that has standards?

[Jack Armstrong]

It's just such a jarring transition of my brain of lyrics.

[Katie Green]

You guys are. You should be used to me by now. It's been years.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

You know, I've never thought about it as much from that standpoint, but I don't know, if I was in that position physically, I'd want to. Wouldn't want a very wide net of people watching. No, no.

[Katie Green]

And then you get. And then you get put in this situation of like, for some reason feeling like you have to gently handle it. Like. No, no, I don't.

[Joe Getty]

I don't want to handle family dynamics. Exactly. And. And, you know, somebody says something, you got to respond. And then. Oh, no, no, no, no.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, you're screaming, you're just about to the final push, and somebody wants you to figure out how to valet their parking or something.

[Katie Green]

True story. When. When my mom was having me, my. My dad, A friend of my dad's showed up at the hospital to have my dad marry him to his lady.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow. Wow.

[Katie Green]

And my dad apparently went downstairs and signed the marriage.

[Jack Armstrong]

Get out of here, would you?

[Katie Green]

I said you're exactly. You're married.

[Jack Armstrong]

Leave. Having a baby. Yeah. Wow.

[Joe Getty]

Yes.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow. Ah, good times. Let's.

[Joe Getty]

Let's move along.

[Jack Armstrong]

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[Joe Getty]

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[Jack Armstrong]

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[Jack Armstrong]

an aquarium in Massachusetts for the public to now check out.

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[Jack Armstrong]

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[Joe Getty]

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[Jack Armstrong]

So we will play some of the highlights of a couple of different press briefings that went on earlier today about the war and all that. But as Joe says, a lot of people aren't paying that much attention. I gotta admit, I have a little bit of difficulty judging how much you, our radio audience, podcast audience, want to hear about this. Most of my favorite podcasts that I listen to are going big on it, if not exclusively, certainly leading with it every day, and I'm certainly interested in it. But I don't know. I don't know.

[Joe Getty]

I wish I were wise and eloquent enough to pen the editorial about what this whole lack of paying attention and comprehending and partisan bickering and focusing on the silly stuff, what it says about our country at this point, it's not good. It's that we're a split colored lobster nation, really.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, I think a lot of it, you do have the Trump polar thing that you mentioned already. But I do think a lot of it is we just, we have been so incredibly successful for so long, as we point out all the time. There's a study came out recently the reason the middle class is disappearing. So many of the middle classes moved into the upper class. That's why. And you just have so many people that feel like my life is. Even if they're, even if people are bitching about how they need to have more and they're being screwed by someone and they should have more. I've got a, I've got a decent sized house. I got cars, I go on vacations. I feel very comfortable. My nation is under threat. I don't need to pay attention to anything really, any, anywhere, anytime other than my own standard of living because I don't know why. Momentum, I guess.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, yeah, that's, that's, that's the broad outlines of it. Absolutely. Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't think we can shake people out of that.

[Joe Getty]

I think we've lost any sense of necessity as a country. Nothing seems necessary. Everything is optional. Everything is to amuse us.

[Jack Armstrong]

Another word I would like to throw in is we've lost the concept of the fragility of what we have built.

[Joe Getty]

Oh yes.

[Jack Armstrong]

Hundred could fall apart so quickly and not come back for like 500 years anywhere.

[Joe Getty]

I have specifically on that topic, a featurette having to do with theft. How tolerant we've become of theft from a little different angle and how popular it is to advocate that it's just fine and Once we lose that, you think you're a CVS with, you know, plastic locking gates? Hiding all the merchandise is the end of it. Oh no, no, no, no. That's just the beginning.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh wow. I want to hear that. The ceasefire is extended for quite a while by Trump. Yesterday he was asked about using nukes in this war. There's a lot of news to get to. Got Katie's headlines on the way, clips of the week because it's Friday. All coming up. Stay here. Armstrong and Getty it's not exactly the

[Joe Getty]

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[Jack Armstrong]

for instance, Pete Hegseth just said the blockade is a gift to the world from the United States, which it actually may be. But I'm not feel the feel like the rest of the world is appreciating it in any way.

[Joe Getty]

No, no. When the road ahead is far from clear in a weird 30,000 foot above way. I'm really, really interested in watching this unfold. Just as a student of, you know, warfare and international relations and the rest of it, I just have no idea where it ends. It may never end. It may be the problem you can't solve. You just manage. And we just keep knocking them back, the irgc every time they get nasty. I don't know. More on that to come with Mike Lyons among others. Let's figure out who's reporting what. It's lead story with Katie Green.

[Katie Green]

Katie Starting with the Alphabet Networks, abc Hegseth also says quote blockade is growing and going global.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Katie Green]

NBC Israel and Lebanon extend ceasefire amid Hormuz uncertainty and CNN analysis. The longer the Strait of Hormuz remains closed, the harder it will become for the United States to avoid the problems piling up elsewhere.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

I heard a good report yesterday. You never know what's accurate and what's not. But these think tankers talking about how close to collapse Iran has to be just based on what we know about how much money they needed before to run their government. Something like I forget the percentage. I think it was 50% of the paying everybody their salaries in that country came from the daily oil revenue, for instance. And now that's been shut off completely. So they're not paying all these different people. And how long, you know, till the whole thing falls apart.

[Joe Getty]

Right. I it's a super interesting question. There have got to be at least four or five different scenarios you could point out that are quote unquote collapse. What does that look like? And if the IRGC has plenty of resources to feed, ARM and pay all of their people, does that greater collapse even matter from our point of view and what does it lead to? Super interesting stuff. Washington does any of it. I'm sorry. And obviously the kind of lurking question is does any of that Quote unquote collapse lead to a popular uprising that could be successful.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right. Maybe. We'll talk about this more later.

[Katie Green]

But it could.

[Jack Armstrong]

It could look like Gaza where Hamas always had plenty of money and food. It's just the average person had no money or food. So maybe that's what Iran looks like as a total.

[Joe Getty]

Exactly.

[Katie Green]

Washington Post. US soldier accused of pocketing $400,000 through bets on Maduro's capture.

[Jack Armstrong]

Heck of an interesting story.

[Joe Getty]

Oh yeah. Just one of several examples of that sort of thing. These. But these prediction markets are out of control completely. God, you hope.

[Jack Armstrong]

You'd hope a special forces dude isn't going to do that sort of thing.

[Katie Green]

From the Daily Mail.

[Jack Armstrong]

Is there any law against it though?

[Joe Getty]

Is there?

[Jack Armstrong]

Actually, we'll talk about that more later.

[Katie Green]

Meta access 8, 000 jobs as Zuckerberg doubles down on AI.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, that's a lot. And again, where's that universal basic income for those people? They just lost their jobs because of AI.

[Joe Getty]

I'm not suggesting it.

[Jack Armstrong]

But. But.

[Joe Getty]

Right. And there's super pressure within Meta2 that everybody has to be using AI and demonstrate how they're using it every single day.

[Katie Green]

Fox News study shows salmon exposed to cocaine swim longer distances. No kidding.

[Joe Getty]

Babylon incessantly about nonsense to the other salmon.

[Katie Green]

New York Post. Oh boy. Tourists trapped in waste deep sewage for hours after toilet collapses during family stop.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh my God. We'll bring you that story later.

[Joe Getty]

Wow, wow, wow. Waist deep is bad, but it's a

[Jack Armstrong]

hell of a lot better than like chest deep. You're really looking for some silver lining.

[Katie Green]

Yeah, exactly.

[Joe Getty]

I'm a glasses half full of sewage guy.

[Katie Green]

Okay. Study finds emojis aren't just decoration. The brain treats them as actual human faces.

[Jack Armstrong]

What?

[Katie Green]

Apparently when we see them, we actually picture the person sending them making the expression.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay, Yeah, I can see that.

[Joe Getty]

Neurologically speaking. Interesting.

[Katie Green]

And finally, Babylon be Gavin Newsom admits he doesn't really want to be president. He just wants to leave California.

[Joe Getty]

Call you all gabby while you can. It's tough. Tough to book a truck.

[Jack Armstrong]

We will go through some of the news of the last 24 hours here very shortly. We have clips of the week coming up. Our friend, friend of the show, Mike Lyons with a Wall Street Journal piece that's getting a fair amount of attention. We'll have him on later in the program. So lots of good stuff.

[Joe Getty]

And the whole theft problem in America, it's. It's a bigger deal than it seems. And it seems like a pretty big deal.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, I'd say. Cool. Look forward to it. It's got that special Friday feel. Later in the show, we'll crank up the daiquiri machine and things will really get loose, huh? About that. So another extension of the ceasefire? Is that what happened? We'll check in on all these things. If you missed a segment, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand Armstrong

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[Jack Armstrong]

I just saw they're talking about inviting Putin to the G20 summit at the Doral Golf Club. Trump's golf club in Florida. What? Putin in the United States? Really?

[Joe Getty]

Trump's lust for being seen as the great dealmaker sometimes leads him straight to delusion. That can't be the case, in my opinion.

[Jack Armstrong]

Could he set foot on American soil?

[Joe Getty]

I don't. I don't know. Diplomatic, you know, protection and immunity, of course. I don't know. It's a horrible idea.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh my God.

[Joe Getty]

Wow, these are odd times. All right, so much to talk about. I can't wait. But let's, let's first take a fond look back at the week that was. It's cow Clips of the week.

[Jack Armstrong]

Clips of the. Driving Pat McAfee halfway gazelle, meet Ace. A ping pong playing robotic arm, self

[Joe Getty]

trained, using AI to be a 21st

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The humanoid Robot finished the 13 mile

[Jack Armstrong]

course in just 50 minutes and 26

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seconds as three tigers performed in a Russian circus recently. The ring itself came down and one

[Jack Armstrong]

of the tigers jumped right out into the crowd.

[Joe Getty]

There are new questions tonight and few answers into 11 missing or dead scientists vanished or killed over the past three years.

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The Trump administration is in advanced discussions with Spirit Airlines over a bailout.

[Jack Armstrong]

Remember, without the Southern Poverty Law center, racism might disappear forever. And that would be bad for the Southern Poverty Law Center.

[Joe Getty]

If you're picky about water, you are an effeminate, limp wristed, panty wearing, frilly little man.

[Jack Armstrong]

Really?

[Joe Getty]

No offense.

[Jack Armstrong]

What grade does he get on homelessness? On effort, I would give him an A and a notoriously tough grader. But I would probably give him a B on homelessness.

[Joe Getty]

Wow. By the way, I'd love to be in your class, Katie, if you get a B for what Gavin Newsom's done on homelessness. My goodness. You won't give us a grade? You won't.

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[Joe Getty]

No, I haven't.

[Jack Armstrong]

I haven't followed it closely enough to give him a grade.

[Joe Getty]

Overnight, centcom announced that U.S. forces seized an Iranian flagged cargo ship.

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The announcement of that ceasefire extension did not bring down the tension here in the region.

[Jack Armstrong]

A member of Iran's parliament taunting an

[Joe Getty]

eye for an eye, a tanker for a tanker. I don't want to rush myself, you

[Jack Armstrong]

know, because every story say, oh, Trump is under time pressure. I'm not.

[Katie Green]

No, no.

[Jack Armstrong]

You know who's under time pressure? They are. It's clips of the week. That billionaire running for governor in California in a debate saying, I can't give Gavin Newsom a grade. I haven't been paying that close of attention. That might be the worst debate answer I've ever heard.

[Joe Getty]

It was. It was actually in an interview, but it was. It was very sad. Oh, that is horrible. Tom Stier is a delusional crank. You can't say that. Yeah, I know. I don't know. I don't really. I live in Nevada. Yes. Ridiculous.

[Jack Armstrong]

And haven't been following it that closely.

[Joe Getty]

Got a great email as part of Mailbag having to do with Gavin's A to B level efforts on bums and junkies.

[Jack Armstrong]

So for whatever reason, I had moved off the idea that they're gonna have the second phase of Operation Epic Fury, like the kinetic part, not the economic part, anytime soon. But I was just reading this piece from Crisis Watch. All the stuff, the extra stuff that we've moved into the Middle east near Iran, all these different planes and ships, and that that aircraft carrier is now there, another aircraft carrier. And as Mark Halpern writes in his newsletter today, unless Trump believes the Iranians are about to cave in under economic pressure, military action seems inevitable. Trump never moves military assets in place without using them. So far, he's got to go for broke against Iran and his political standing for the midterms. I don't know why people bring the midterms up all the time. I think That's a Washington, D.C. story. I really don't think that plays it. The Republic's gonna lose no matter what. Whether the war ended today or in six months, they're gonna lose the House. Quit acting like that's the determining factor. I just. I don't get that.

[Joe Getty]

But you're right. The quote unquote, midterms could be the current American champion for over, you know, being over mentioned in every damn news story.

[Jack Armstrong]

It is.

[Joe Getty]

But see, that's the whole thing in Washington, D.C. and the more cynical you are about this, the better. Who's in control of the treasury, of handing out your tax dollars? That's all anybody cares about. That's it. And so for them, the midterms are enormously important because then we can give money to our cronies. Hence its intrusion in every damn story. What? You know, folks, in your real life, seriously, because a lot of states are having primaries like now. Ish.

[Jack Armstrong]

How often does it come up in

[Joe Getty]

your real life, the, the primary between Jones and Schmedkovich?

[Jack Armstrong]

Absolutely never.

[Joe Getty]

And who do you like for assistant comptroller in Delaware, wherever you live? Never.

[Jack Armstrong]

Or even what do you think the midterm is?

[Joe Getty]

Just most of us, we. We get our sample ballot or we go on the party website or whatever, a couple of days before we go vote. If we' conscientious voters, we do about half an hour worth of looking around. Yeah, I like Jones. I like his platform. You vote for Jones.

[Jack Armstrong]

Anyway, back to the more military stuff. We're moving into the arena there. Most of these fighters and drones are tasked with providing close support to U.S. navy and Marine forces involved in potential ground operations, including any effort to seize control of Iranian held islands. So all that is obviously still very on the table, like Marines taking an island. And then. Which interview was it? Oh, it was on 60 Minutes last Sunday night when they did that interesting piece about grabbing the highly enriched uranium, which has to happen. That's not like it's an option to do that. One way or another, that has to be secured. Anywho, that would be quite the operation, landing all kinds of people, securing a giant area, bringing in bulldozers, et cetera, et cetera. And then the correspondent said, and could, could there be any soldiers killed in an operation like this? If we're even going to ask a question like that, we are not prepared for what we're about to do as a country.

[Joe Getty]

We're a soft society. Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Could somebody be killed in a giant ground operation, in a war? You're asking that question?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, it was silly. Well, you know, it is silly, but it's a measure of where we are as a country. Our incredible success and wealth and comfort, which is, you know, you do everything you can to get here, but good times make for soft people.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't know. I don't know how the country's gonna react. We end up with a ship sunk and hundreds dead, which would be in the overall scheme of a giant war, not a lot. And I'm not being dismissive of the individual deaths, it's just that's what happens.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. I look back to some of the conflicts you've had, some of the righteous ones that virtually nobody disagrees with. Unless you're Tucker Carlson and you've lost your effing mind about World War II. I'm thinking of. But anyway. Yeah. And there were enormous setbacks, huge losses. We're on the back foot. The Nazis were winning, blah, blah, blah. It just happens. It's the ebb and flow. And, and it used to be like every society on Earth understood that and accepted that, but we're a unique experiment. And what happens if people are this wealthy and comfortable?

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, I want to get into some of the global economic predictions. We're just talking about us being protected and comfortable and everything's way too expensive. I've been complaining about that since COVID started and so has everybody else. Every single time you get gas or go to the grocery store, go out to eat, you're slapped in the face with what happened to me just yesterday. What? How could that. We went to Panda Express. This is what it cost. What?

[Joe Getty]

Where are the white tablecloths and a waiter in a tuxedo?

[Jack Armstrong]

Right. For that price. But. But what it's doing to the global economy, it isn't bothering us near as much as it is the rest of the world. And it could reach a tipping point very, very soon. So we'll talk more about that later, I suppose. We got our friend Mike Lyons and his piece in the Wall Street Journal on a little bit later. And Joe's Got Mailbag coming up in just a few minutes. But first we need to tell you about Incogni, which is such a great idea. This is the. This is the best thing we could do for you today is to get you signed up for Incogni.

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[Jack Armstrong]

Yes, Incogni makes you disappear from those places. That's what Incogni does. They contact hundreds of data brokers, legally force them to remove your information because the law is on your side. It's just generally, nobody's pushing it. You use Incogni, you're going to see a lot of those spam calls, texts and emails go away. Lots of them. Yeah.

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[Jack Armstrong]

I was just looking up the tv. He's smiling. You got to be smiling that the fairy tale fairy tale life of Fernando Mendoza is coming to an end as he's gonna go play for the Raiders.

[Joe Getty]

Enjoy your beatings.

[Jack Armstrong]

I hope I'm wrong. I hope he can turn the Raiders around and and but he's up against it. Poor guy.

[Joe Getty]

Plucky kid.

[Jack Armstrong]

Anywho, mailbag on the way.

[Joe Getty]

Next Armstrong and Getty

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[Jack Armstrong]

I feel like I've seen more teachers mug shots who had sex with their students picks in the last week than I've seen in the last 10 years combined. Is there a flurry of that right now or are they just getting more attention?

[Joe Getty]

I don't know. I. I know what you mean though.

[Jack Armstrong]

I just saw another one. I've seen like five this week almost. Teachers relatively attractive, blonde, usually decided for some reason to have sex with a 14 to 17 year old, which is weird.

[Joe Getty]

Anyway, it's always the same. It's always the same. It's a woman just on the cusp of losing her sexual power and beauty, wanting to feel that that power and. And charge again. In my opinion.

[Jack Armstrong]

Sad. The space race is completely different than what we thought it was going to be. I was just reading a piece by Elon Musk. We'll have to get to that a little bit later. Really?

[Joe Getty]

Okay, here's your freedom loving quote of the day. The lovely Anna and Sunny La Mesa sent along a series of quotes from Aristotle. Couple of them in particular I love. We'll just do both of them. The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. And this is. This is so true. Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, so when you're older, you're not quick to deceive because you're hopeless?

[Joe Getty]

Well, you have a lot less hope. You're not quick to hope. You think, yeah, there are flaws in that. We need to keep working on it. As opposed to a kid will say, that'll solve everything.

[Jack Armstrong]

Socialism will solve everything. You're good.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, you're a fool. A young fool.

[Jack Armstrong]

Or this new politician will solve everything.

[Joe Getty]

Right? Exactly. Mailbag. Please feel free to correspond at will. Drop us a note. Mailbagarmstrongygetti.com Jerry from Quincy writes, good morning. We must, must save Spirit Airlines. Their clientele is one of the greatest sources of videos showing people getting dragged off of airplanes and banned from airports. There are other sources, but I don't think we can rely on Frontier and EasyJet to make up for the loss. Stay cool my friends. Jerry Beautiful.

[Jack Armstrong]

Our Waffle House in the sky.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, exactly. JetBlue also strong contender in that category. But let's see. On the topic of fecal matter in the streets and other things. Nice note from Nick here I was listening to the podcast segment about the homeless people, pardon the expression, crapping over Jennifer Newsom's shoulder in a press opportunity press conference. My fiance called just as she got out of work at the state Treasurer's office right next to the Capitol building in Cal Unicornia and told me she stepped over a large pile of human flood feces in the middle of the sidewalk.

[Jack Armstrong]

Fecal matter. I feel like I didn't need to hear about that.

[Joe Getty]

Then she continued on stating, quote, I've noticed a lot more crap on the sidewalks recently. Wonder if they have E. Coli. I was quick to remind her that Gavin Newsom got an A or B in dealing with homeless people, according to his fellow Democrats. So how could the crap on the

[Jack Armstrong]

sidewalk be increasing because of housing costs? What do you not understand about inequality?

[Joe Getty]

Then he points out, because it's possible to lose this sort of perspective living in the Golden State, the correct amount of crap on the sidewalk should be zero.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right? Yeah, zero. I thought that same thing when you said there was an increase. There shouldn't be an increase. There shouldn't be any. The standard should be none. When that's what it is almost everywhere in the country.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, yeah. And then a weird encounter. He and his fiance, who are looking forward very much to having children and started to mention they had a baby horse to an acquaintance and she gasped and then breathed a sigh of relief, said oh my God, I thought you were going to say you're having a baby. Good, it's a horse. And then he said, yeah, we can't wait to have kids. Conversation got very weird and awkward. And this is a 30 plus year old woman who is married. Very strange attitudes these days, Nick points out. I would agree. Very odd. Let's see, on a similar topic to the first part, Russ from Portland says Portlandia is crumbling. Thought I'd give you a Portland update. The current mayor Keith Wilson promised to end homelessness during his first year in office. That's what he campaigned on. Well, as you can imagine, didn't work out so well. That was 15 months ago after allocating many millions of dollars to the so called homeless crisis. Now even worse, who saw that coming? Today the local news is they're closing down some of the homeless shelters due to Budget concerns. So in an effort to curb said budget problems, it's been proposed to cut $21 million from the Portland Police Bureau. More money for the homeless industrial complex, less money for law enforcement. Yeah, great idea. Holy Portlandia. Then he says, I still see the derelict RVs and tents and people openly, again, pooping on the streets on a daily basis.

[Jack Armstrong]

We have to keep saying that.

[Joe Getty]

Junkies shooting up. We wake up and smell the. Bad policy.

[Jack Armstrong]

God, bad policy.

[Joe Getty]

People shooting up on freeway, on ramps, holding signs you can't even read because it's from nine junkies ago. Well, at least they're recycling. Oh, my God. Junkies wandering in and out of traffic. Meanwhile, down where I live, which is just outside of Portland, there are zero street junkies. You know why? Because the cops enforce the law. You can't camp here, period. It works. It's easy. Enforce the law.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. It's interesting. There is one left turn that I make probably once a week, not far from the radio station where there's always somebody with a sign and a sad look on their face. And we're waiting in line in the cars. It's one of those stoplights that take. You sit there for a long time. And I'd say half the people give the drug addict money. Half the people in the car line

[Joe Getty]

hold money out because you have a soft head.

[Jack Armstrong]

Hold money out the. Well, the reason I bring that up is as long as you got that many people willing to hand money out the window, I think it's going to be hard to convince people that. That, look, it's a drug addict problem. It's not a housing problem. We're spending billions of dollars. If they want food, there's plenty of it. There's all kinds of places in the towns around here where you can go and get food. They want to buy more booze or drugs with that money, you're handing them out the window. Do you realize that? But anyway, the fact that people are willing to give them that money means the message hasn't gotten out, Right?

[Joe Getty]

I retweeted a comment to a bigger tweet, but I loved it. It was about the. The bums and junkies problem. When you lump together the poor, the addicted, and the mentally ill, you fail all three. And that's what we've been advocating at the Armstrong and Getty show for a very long time. Quit calling it the homeless problem. It's really three distinct problems. Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Anyway, I've mentioned this friend I had who. She would give money to the homeless and she would tell me I know, I know. They're going to go buy booze with it. You're not telling me something I don't know. They're miserable. Their life sucks. I just made them happier. Which, you know, I guess on some sort of micro level I can get, but on the macro level, it doesn't work.

[Joe Getty]

Well, at least it's conscious. It's wrong, but at least it's not pig ignorance. It's a different sort of ignorance. Well, we're out of time. I really like this one. This was great and life affirming. But let it be known, Jack's filibuster just it crowded out the time. Now we don't have time for this email that would have lifted your spirits, friends, and made you happy.

[Jack Armstrong]

Here's the good news. We have three more hours.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, that's right, checking the one correct. So stay with us, won't you? Life affirming next hour.

[Jack Armstrong]

I think we can fit it in. If you miss it, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on Demand. There's lots of news today, so stick around.

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[Jack Armstrong]

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