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Jack Armstrong (main host)
And now, here's Armstrong and Getty. I have to say the drugs coming in by sea are down 94%. And we're trying to figure out who the other 6% are, but they're down 94% and we're going to start hitting them on land, which is a lot easier to do, frankly. Whoa. Once again he's saying we're going to hit them on land. So they released three more videos overnight. Three more boats that we blew out of the water. The Pentagon. And so that's quite a few boats over the period of time. And Trump once again mentioning we're gonna start hitting them on land. So there you go on that story. This is kind of breaking 2028 presidential news, which I hate coming out of my mouth cuz we spend way too much time talking about the President of the United States. But Marco Rubio has ruled out running if JD Vance decides to run, which is pretty big news. Cuz most people that I follow seem to think that was gonna be the big battle between Rubio and Vance. And Rubio said if he runs, I'm not running. Might be a glide path for J.D. vance to the nomination.
Joe Getty
Could be, yeah. So also big political news. New York Times is out with a blockbuster story, compiling a bunch of things Susie Wiles, Trump's chief of staff, has said in a long series of interviews over the first year of Mr. Trump's second term with the author Chris Whipple, who's written a highly respected book about, I'm told, about presidential chiefs of staff.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
So, and then she tweets like we mentioned just last hour. Then she has tweeted, they took this stuff out of context and mischaracterized me. But I don't know, I don't know what that means.
Joe Getty
Right. And there are all sorts of quotes that are getting attention. J.D. vance has been a conspiracy theorist for a decade and changed from Trump critic to ally for sort of political reasons because he was running for Senate.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
So how I'm like, I don't know how that could be taken out of context.
Joe Getty
I don't, I don't know either. She might not be talking about that because there are a dozen dozen quotes at least that are getting attention. Elon Musk is an avowed ketamine user and an odd, odd duck.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
Yeah.
Joe Getty
That ones were not always rational or left her aghast. That's like several quotes in that sentence.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
That one doesn't bother me.
Joe Getty
Let's see.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
I want, I want my inventor disruptors to be kind of crazy. That's their job.
Joe Getty
Right? Attorney General Pam Bondi completely whiffed in handling the Epstein files, which she did, she urged Trump not to pardon the most violent rioters. I'm just going to run through the listen so far, but of all of.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
Them you mentioned a couple hours ago, and now, I can't imagine any of them being in any different context that would make them any less quite amazing. I mean, for her to come out and say, I didn't think Trump should have pardoned the most violent of the January six people. That's why she do that.
Joe Getty
Yeah. Well, last hour we were talking about how she says Trump has an alcoholic's personality. We dealt with that a little bit. She grew up with an alcoholic dad. The famous Pat Summerall, the great sportscaster. I'm going to get to the new part in just a second. Um, let's see. Ms. Wiles confided in Mr. Whipple in March that she told Mr. Trump that his presidency was not supposed to be a retribution tour and to quit focusing on that. We have a loose agreement that the score settling will end before the first 90 days are over, she said. Then, when it did not happen by August, she told Mr. Whipple that, quote, I don't think he's on a retribution tour, but said that he was aiming at people who did bad things and coming after him, blah, blah, blah, in some cases, may look like retribution. There may be an element of that from time to time. Who would blame him? Not me. Again, that's. I think that is enough. But here's. Let's see. Reach for comment Monday evening by the New York Times. Ms. Wiles played down Mr. Trump's personal motivations and the actions against his enemies. Let's see. And then, let's see. Where's the Bondi? Stuff's pretty critical. No evidence that Clinton went to Epstein Island. Oh, all right, here's where it starts to get really interesting. She added that it was Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche's idea to go interview Ghislaine Maxwell in prison and that the President did not know that she would be transferred to a minimum security prison camp. Quote, the President was ticked. The President was mighty unhappy. I don't know why they moved her. Neither does the President.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
Whoa, that is news.
Joe Getty
But wait a minute. The President of the United States can't pick up the phone and call the federal prison system and say, hey, dudes, what happened here? Yeah, we'll call you back. Click.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
Come on. Why'd she get moved then? Did somebody move her thinking she had something on Trump and they're trying to protect him?
Joe Getty
I don't know. And she claims she doesn't know. Neither does the President.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
That's the biggest mystery in the whole Epstein thing to me.
Joe Getty
Seems pretty clear to me what happened, but nobody's admitting.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
God. Were those pictures that came out last weekend a nothing burger that the media once again traded like news?
Joe Getty
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
What?
Joe Getty
Oh, that was horrible. That was so nakedly just clickbait. But, you know, it's the business they're in. They're not in the news business. They're in the clickbait business. Remember that? And so Wiles described frustration with Mr. Musk. He's an odd, odd duck, as I think geniuses are. You know, it's not helpful, but he is person. And they were talking about when Elon shared a post saying that Stalin, Mao and Hitler didn't murder millions, their public sector workers did. Good Lord. Ms. Wiles said, quote, I think that's when he's microdosing. Asked what she meant, she said, he's an avowed ketamine user. Now, Mr. Musk is acknowledged trying ketamine a few years ago, but denied reports of more recent use. Now, in the interview at the Times on Monday, Ms. Wiles took issue with the quote attributed to her about the drug use. That's ridiculous. That's ridiculous, she said. I wouldn't have said it and I wouldn't know. But Mr. Whipple, contacted by the Times, played them the tape in which she can be heard saying it.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
Okay, so some of this stuff she did say, and now that it's out in the newspaper, she's wishing she hadn't. I don't know how that works. I don't know how people end up, especially somebody like her. You're not like me, like just a regular person that doesn't understand the how the world works. I mean, you, you're, you're, you're in the shark tank and happened for years, you know, what you can and can't say and how it's going to be used in a book or an article.
Joe Getty
Here's a question for you. Was that the, like, week when Trump was openly feuding with Elon? She thought she could go ahead and say it.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
I don't know. Is it so I don't know much about the whole ketamine thing. I know it killed Chandler, but do people do it recreationally and fine and is it a big deal? I mean, is it like being a meth user or.
Joe Getty
I don't think it's like that exactly.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
But my take has been that a number of people do it in a Healthy way. It's good for you.
Joe Getty
There are a handful of drugs, ketamine, psilocybin, which is the active ingredient, mushrooms. And a couple other things that people microdose. They say it makes them more relaxed and happy, but they're not high. They're just barely. Barely. Barely. Well, they're less angsty. And evidently somebody said he was microdosing. But anyway, then this is, to me, just interesting. She offered. She was initially aghast about the cuts to US Aid, because I think that overall they do very good work. She offered no objection to Mr. Trump's saber rattling against Venezuelan bombing of boats carrying alleged drug traffickers. Quote, he wants to keep on blowing up boats until Maduro cries uncle. And people way smarter than me say that he will. Way smarter than me on that, say he will.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
That's what I assumed was going on.
Joe Getty
Yeah, yeah. She expressed misgivings about how the roundup of immigrants has been carried out. At times, I will concede that we've got to look harder at our process for deportation, but if there's a question, I think our process has to lean toward a double check.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
Okay, so what stands out as a big deal here? Like, I'm looking at our. Our friend Tim Sandifer, who we love, tweeted out, even in an atmosphere of non stop jaw dropping insanity, this is something. And links to this article. What is. What is standing out to people as, like, really jaw dropping? Holy crap, I'm not feeling.
Joe Getty
Wow, that's. That's a good question. I mean, it's. It's a remarkable insider look at a White House before it leaves office, which is something. But I think a lot of this could fall under the. The umbrella of there are disagreements within the administration, then they come to a decision and proceed. And I mean, we want that, right? We want people saying, well, that might be a bad idea.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
Cause is there anybody that didn't think Elon was odd or that Pam Bondi whiffed on Epstein or that. I don't know, several of the other ones you mentioned.
Joe Getty
Here's a story for you. Well, no, you're absolutely right. Your rhetorical question is absolutely right. Um, let's see. As for the potential successors to this point, Mr. Vance and Mr. Rubio, she distinguished how each of them came around to supporting Mr. Trump after initially opposing him. Quote, marco is not the sort of person that would violate his principles. He just won't. And so he had to get there. As for Mr. Vance, quote, his conversion came when he was running for the Senate. And I think his conversion was a little more sort of political.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
Yeah, that's exactly 100% what I thought happened. I mean, maybe, maybe her saying that out loud is big news in the high school gossip Corridors of Washington, D.C. but I don't know.
Joe Getty
I thought that was pretty obvious. And the final Note on this, Mr. Rubio, and it's funny, Mr. Rubio told Mr. Whipple, the author, that he has said publicly that, quote, if J.D. vance runs for president, he's going to be our nominee and I'll be one of the first people to support him. Still, listen to this from the New York Times. Still, the underlying tension came through when Mr. Vance posed for the magazine's photographer. Quote, I'll give you a hundred dollars for every person you look. You make look really s compared to me, vance joked. And a thousand if it's Marco. That showed the underlying tension that Vance said, hey, make everybody look crappier than me and I'll give you $100 per thousand bucks if it's Marco. Ha ha ha. That shows underlying tension and not a former Marine who's got a really good sense of humor. It's underlying tension.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
Sounds like a joke. Okay, I still yet my jaw is not dropped. My jaw is in its normal spot.
Joe Getty
Perhaps you have lockjaw. Have you been bitten by a hyena lately or anything like that?
Jack Armstrong (main host)
Jaws in its normal spot. I did step on a rusty nail the other day. My jaws, it's a normal place. It has not dropped yet from any of those revelations.
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To me, what should be the biggest story this week is what happened in Australia just because it's in fitting with the ongoing conversation of what do we do about radical Islam around the world that seems to be reasserting itself and making its way into all kinds of countries wanting to take over. Talk more about that a little bit later.
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Cindy Crawford
This is where mindset comes in.
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Someone will be eliminated.
Jack Armstrong
Pressure is coming down.
Joe Getty
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Atlanta resident Tanya shepherd says it happened to her in the middle of the day last month. A thief stealing her packages on a busy street. Shepherd's packages were among the roughly 250,000 that are stolen nationwide every day. A study from home safety research company Safewise estimated the total value of the items lost in the past year alone at nearly $15 billion.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
That's something. 250,000 packages stolen from porches daily. A quarter of a million a day.
Joe Getty
To me, it's like horse thievery, hangings.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
You got to make the punishment so awful that people don't want to do.
Joe Getty
It.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
Because it's so easy to do. Yeah. Wow, that's something.
Joe Getty
Despicable.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
I'm, I'm guessing that a lot of the boy scouts I know are not going to steal stuff off of people's porches. That's my transition into raising money for scouting this week. And the idea that, hey, it costs a couple hundred bucks, depending on your situation to have your kid get into scouts, into the scouts. And so we're going to try to raise enough money that a whole bunch of kids who want to join the scouts can. You don't have to come up with the money. I don't want the family not having the money being the difference between joining scouts or not. And that's why we're raising money this week, hoping to raise $100,000. We'll hit you with a total here in a little bit. But so donations so far, 100 bucks from Elvis Presley Christmas albums. These are people with funny names for their, their Jack's Pocket. Fork in for $50. Thank you very much.
Joe Getty
Oh, thank you, Fork.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
Yeah. Keep wishing that pig good luck. Donated 50 bucks. Now, Katie, you do not know that story.
Joe Getty
I don't.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
So we're at a restaurant and we come out of the restaurant and outside on the street they're barbecuing a pig on a spit. And if you've ever seen that, it just looks like a pig. You know, it looks like I have.
Joe Getty
A rough time looking at that.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
But yeah, yeah, so did my three and a half year old, four year old son Sam at the time because he was at that age where, you know, animals are what you see in cartoons and movies and they're, they're practically like people and all that sort of stuff. Anyway, we. And, and, and I wouldn't have wanted him to look at that. I mean, if I'd have known it was there. But we come out of the restaurant and right there in front of us is this pig on a spit being turned with an apple in its mouth, eyes open. I mean, it just looks like a living pig. I mean, they just started. And we start walking and Sam gets tears in his eyes, and I can tell he's all chucked in my. I said, what's up, buddy? He said, I want to go wish that pig good luck.
Joe Getty
Oh.
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Jack Armstrong (main host)
Oh, my God. So that's what that is. Keep wishing that pig good luck. Donated $50. I know that. Wow, that's traumatizing when you're that young. Yes. Yes. Oh, he was, he was. He was busted up over it. I want to go wish that pig good luck. I said, it's too late. It's dead as a hammer.
Joe Getty
There you go. That's good parenting right there.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
We got 50 bucks from stupid. Should hurt. Appreciate that. And a whole bunch of other people using their names. And I won't mention them because I don't know if you want your name mentioned or not, or you can donate anonymously. You go to Armstrong and getty.com. you. You click on the obvious thing for donating, and it just takes you a couple of minutes. Let's get a total. Gladys, roll the drums. On our way. I hope to $100,000. We're currently at $42,837.
Joe Getty
That's fantastic. That's going to help out a lot of young American boys find their path in life. Love it, love it, love it.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
Yeah. And learn leadership skills. I've seen this in action. I mean, it's just. I could not be more impressed with how some of these kids are leaders as like 14, 15, 16 year olds standing there in a group and saying, all right, who's got food? That's you, Jimmy. All right, what do you got? Tell me. And then there's a problem. How you gonna. How are you gonna fix that? You got that taken care of? All right, then go on. Who's got tents? And just think they're 15 years old. I don't see that. I like, I keep saying, I see 28 year olds come into work that aren't. They're like 12 year olds. In the modern society, we need more grownups, and I'm seeing a lot of that in scouting. So donate. Go to Armstrong and getty.com.
Joe Getty
You'Re talking in the abstract about things other people have told you. Not the Radio Ranch, sir.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
No, no, I've not seen that at the radio station at all through the years.
Joe Getty
Repeatedly outrageous thought. Oh boy.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
Rich Lowry with a pretty good piece about this whole Islam immigration problem that we got around the country. And this should be a pretty good yet another wake up call. What happened in Australia, Australia over the weekend? No, npr. Guns aren't the issue. Gun laws aren't the issue. Fundamentalist Muslims moving to countries and wanting to kill Jew or take over the government. That's the issue.
Joe Getty
Ding.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
Good Lord. Anyway, we'll talk about that and other things on the way. Have you missed a segment? Get the podcast. Armstrong and Getty on demand.
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Toughest job interview in fitness that will push past physical and mental breaking points. You are the fittest of the fit. Only one of you will leave here with an IFIT contract worth $250,000.
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Someone will be eliminated.
Jack Armstrong
Pressure is coming down.
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Joe Getty
The two shooters are 50 year old.
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Father Sajid Akram and his 24 year old son Navid.
Joe Getty
Sources say they pledged allegiance to ISIS and shouted Al U Akbar while opening fire. Authorities say two ISIS flags, weapons and IEDs were recovered near the scene.
Christopher Hitchens (clip)
Resist it while you still can and before the right to complain is taken away from you, which will be the next you will be told you can't complain because you're Islamophobic. The term is already being introduced into the culture as if it was an accusation of race hatred, for example, or bigotry, whereas it's only the objection to the preachings of a very extreme and absolutist religion. Watch out for these symptoms. They are not just symptoms of surrender.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
Yeah, that's the great Christopher Hitchens who I wish was still alive to talk about what is going on in the world with radical Islam, which he was a warrior against. As you heard there in the news report. The two killers there in Australia pledged their allegiance to isis and Christopher Hitchens identified many years ago that the term Islamophobia was going to be thrown at you anytime you tried to point out the problems of radical Islam.
Joe Getty
Yeah, I kind of prefer the term fundamentalist Islam for reasons we could talk about.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
That's right. That's the same thing Bill Maher's always talking about. By the way. I'm not Islamophobic. I'm not afraid of them.
Joe Getty
No, no. I just don't like it as a political system for a number of reasons.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
They want to kill me.
Joe Getty
I mean, it's not a radical interpretation of the Gospels to believe that you should forgive your enemies. That's a fundamental view of the Gospel and A fundamentalist view of the Quran includes a great deal of bloodshed and slavery and all sorts of things the Western world finds abhorrent. It's just true.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
So Rich Lowry of National Review writing, the Bondi beach attack in Australia was shocking, but not at all surprising. Some of the details were distinctive. An idyllic spot on the Pacific Ocean instantly turned into a killing field. A father son terror squad. But the basic picture of radicalized Muslim immigrants targeting a gathering of Jews was drearily familiar. These events follow the same pattern because the fundamentalist version of Islam is at its root hostile to Jews. Let's say for the sake of the argument, there was a refugee flow of Unitarians, and some proportion of those Unitarians were antagonistic to traditional Christians, such that they vandalized their businesses, harassed them in the streets, and launched massive protests in favor of overseas Unitarian terror groups. In that case, we'd obviously cast a skeptical eye on Unitarian immigration. Yet this hasn't been true of Muslim immigration. That is obviously true.
Joe Getty
And Rich is such a reasonable, careful guy in his writings, too. He's no bomb trucker. No. No sick pun intended.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
What is the reason for that? Why does. Why does Islam get treated differently than maybe anything else you can think of where, if it had a violent wing, people would just accept that that was true and then try to deal with it?
Joe Getty
I really think it's the xenophilia of the leftist forces in America and a bunch of other places. It is so fundamental to their identities that they hate themselves and embrace the foreign. I mean, that may be their commandment. Number one, be contemptuous of your own culture and be generous or overly forgiving in my mind, to other cultures. And I think that's a lot of it. They can't bring themselves to say our culture, our laws, our Constitution are not only better than this other way of approaching life, that other way of life is really sick. They can't bring themselves to say that if, you know, if it's hard for a rational human being to picture being that completely committed to a mindset.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
You know, a lot of it is that obviously some of it is fear. Physical fear.
Joe Getty
Yes.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
That if I get on the wrong side of these people, they'll kill me.
Joe Getty
Yes, true.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
Which is, you know, the heckler's veto. A violent version of the heckler's veto.
Joe Getty
Right. And then there's like the Prime Minister of Australia. He reminds me a lot of a bunch of European leaders, including Britain, our great granddaddy, which is absolutely twisting itself into knots for this very reason. There Is a point of view that, oh my gosh, we allowed this much immigration from Muslim countries. We have a certain percentage of those folks who are fundamentalists. We need to minimize conflict at all times. Times we need to not talk about a division or that we reject them or they reject us. We've got to just be quiet and see if this goes away. You know what I'm saying? They're just, they're so afraid of conflict. They think backing off of our principles or recognizing the truth will minimize conflict. And they're absolutely wrong. It just delays it.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
Well, we had to take a. We got suspended off the radio quite a few years back when I made a comment about drawing a picture of Muhammad.
Joe Getty
How did that.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
How was. Why was that in the news at the time?
Joe Getty
I think it was in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo massacre and there was somebody somewhere was going to have a festival where you could do. I can't remember the particulars, but.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
And I believe I claimed I drew a picture of Muhammad and then tore it up or something like that. Anyway, we got suspended for a while because that is just something you cannot do. Now. You could draw, you can get. You can get a picture of Jesus and whiz on it and people will.
Joe Getty
Applaud and put it in the Guggenheim.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
And you'll get in no trouble whatsoever or any other religion. And I always use the example of, you make fun of Mormons and you got a hit Broadway show but nobody may gonna make fun of Muslims at all. Combination of political correctness and you're just plain afraid. Mormons made the mistake of being nice, easygoing people who will just, you know, turn the other cheek.
Joe Getty
Right.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
And let you make fun of them and continue to do what they do. The idea that you can't draw a picture of Muhammad when you're not Muslim because it would just be too. You're in, you're inviting. You provoked it. If there's any violence you caused it because you provoked it is insane. It's anti enlightenment.
Joe Getty
Right? It is. That's exactly what it is. In Britain recently, you've heard about this, probably a guy burned a Quran. A Muslim man stabbed him for it. The burning got a stiffer sentence than the stabbing.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
Yeah. And so all this fits together. The retreating, backing down to fundamentalist Islam is led to this. And it's getting worse, not better.
Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong (main host)
I have no reason to criticize any non violent religion and your practice of it at all. And if you're a devout Muslim and that's your thing, but you don't want to force everybody else into it, fine with me. I don't care. That's cool. Good for you. I'm pro organized religion and I would never want to make fun of it to you or criticize you for it, but the, you know, the, everything changes. If you're trying to force everybody else into a certain lifestyle, that's a completely different thing.
Joe Getty
Right, right. And everybody knows from the cry, the chant, from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free or death. Death to the IDF or globalize. The Intifada are specific threats against Jews. But in Europe, if you say something even mildly critical of Islam, you'll be arrested for your tweet. It's absolutely a double standard because the, the standard is did you give offense? And if you have one group that is by which is the embodiment of Western civilization saying, I don't want, I don't appreciate you criticizing me, but you get to. In fact, I cherish your right to criticize my politics, my religion, my economy, whatever you want. That's, I accept that. In fact, I embrace it. Then on the other side, you have a group that says, if you criticize me, I will kill you, I will hurt you. And the government, the Western government stands up and says, well, that offended them. So you can't say that. As you said, Jack, that's abandoning the lessons of the Enlightenment. I mean it's beyond perverse. It's, well, it's suicidal. It's quite, quite literally suicidal.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
Have you. I don't think I have ever heard anybody make that point about the. What was that? Making fun of the Mormons Broadway show. It played here in Sacramento recently.
Joe Getty
Yeah, Book of Mormon.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
Book of Mormon. I've not, I don't know if I've ever heard anybody else make that point. And it's not to not have the Book of Mormon musical, it's just that, come on now, you can't claim that anybody who mocks Islam brings violence upon themselves. They caused it. And make fun of Mormons like that and make those, make those fit in a worldview. To me you're being hypocritical.
Joe Getty
Well, yeah, it's very much like saying a woman can say something to her spouse unless he will beat her for it.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
I mean, so if you're going to pick a religion to make fun of and there's.
Joe Getty
I'm sorry, can we spend a second.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
Half a second on that.
Joe Getty
You have granted the individual husband the right to either beat his wife or not beat his wife, depending on whether it pissed him off. That's the opposite of equal protection under the law. It's obscene.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
If you are going to pick a religion and then the most extreme view version of it to mock, is there anything you could go do more with than fundamentalists, Islam and the fact that.
Joe Getty
You don't let women show their skin, among other things. Yeah.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
Throw gay people off the top of buildings. Can't write a musical about that. You could come up with some things to, you know, poke at. No, too dangerous.
Joe Getty
It's a difference between a religion of turning the other cheek and a religion of kill those who oppose us.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
That's wild.
Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong (main host)
It is good to be right. I'm seldom right. I have to only assume that it feels good to be right. I'm usually wrong, kind of used to it. So I don't know how bad it.
Joe Getty
Feels when you're talking about fundamentalist Islam. And I was recently reminded of this. The expansion of Islam is considered the proof of its truth. And the success of Islam over the centuries has been proof of the righteousness of the religion. And so any setback, any loss of territory, particularly in the Middle east, you know, the birthplace of Islam, is considered a horrific, horrific loss, setback, insult, threat to the very soul of humanity. Because remember, Muhammad was the seal of the prophets, the last prophet. And they cannot accept that. They never will accept it. There will never be a two state solution. There will only be waiting till they can snuff the Jews. That's reality.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
I've seen pieces recently in publications or heard them on NPR or wherever about Christian nationalism, how scary that is for the country or all the young men that are joining the Orthodox Church. How scary that might be become. Where's your piece about fundamentalist Islam and how scary that is and how it's a problem?
Joe Getty
Never. I've.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
I don't know if I've ever read one in a New York Times or heard it on NPR or anything like that.
Joe Getty
They're rare for sure.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
Ever heard one. And this shooting in Australia, NPR every day. It's all about guns and gun laws. You haven't talked about extremist Muslims at all as far as I know.
Joe Getty
Want to talk about useful idiots? My God.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
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Jack Armstrong (main host)
Police in Florida arrested two men and a woman. Good luck guessing which is which after they were discovered having drunken sex in a Winn Dixie parking lot. The trio was immediately transported to a Waffle House parking lot. So they had pictures up there obviously in the, you know, good luck guessing which is which. It was. It was not easy to tell which which was the woman with the two dudes there having sex in the parking lot there of the the diner.
Joe Getty
Probably figured it out eventually, I would imagine.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
I assume when they set out at the beginning they had an idea. I don't know. So we got people donating to Boy Scouts, some funny names. We'll do a total maybe an hour for Dead Flowers. Fan club president though. And for 25 bucks, that's Joe's old man.
Joe Getty
Thanks DFers. FC President Guy President.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
There you go. Gavin's early dinner donated 50 bucks. Appreciate that. Glad that lives on. And my favorite, it was an early dinner and my favorite 25 bucks from Michelangelo's toe.
Michael (Caller or Guest)
Hey, thank you.
Joe Getty
Wow, that's odd.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
Michelangelo's diabetes toe. How's that going, Michael?
Michael (Caller or Guest)
Oh, I'm doing good.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
You seem to be.
Michael (Caller or Guest)
Yeah, yeah, I'm hanging in there.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
How are you doing in terms of eating the way you're supposed to eat as a guy with diabetes?
Michael (Caller or Guest)
Overall, pretty good. But I slip sometimes. Sometimes you just get that craving for something sweet. But if I eat something sweet, I run it off is what I do.
Joe Getty
Have you talked to your doctors about, like, the artificial sweetener stuff and all? I mean, because there are a lot of stuff that. I mean, it's sweet to the point of it's just disgusting, but it has no sugar in it.
Michael (Caller or Guest)
Yeah, I need to explore more sugar free options. But yeah, I like the real stuff.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
How strict are you supposed to be?
Michael (Caller or Guest)
Well, for me, I'm not that bad. I mean, some people have. It's much worse. Everybody's a little bit different, but I'm able to control it. I have a little meter on my skin that tells me where I'm at and I just kind of follow the meter.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
But if your wife hadn't pushed you go to the doctor when she noticed something wrong with your toe. Yeah, you could have what, lost your foot? Your leg?
Michael (Caller or Guest)
I really don't know how bad it would have gotten. But yeah, if you don't treat it, it can get really bad. You can lose limbs and toes and things like that.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
Yes, this is Katie.
Joe Getty
I do want to give Michael credit. When he was leaving the gym yesterday, there was an entire table of cookies. Oh, I saw that. Oh, yeah. And he blew right by.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
Yeah.
Joe Getty
But seriously, whose idea was it to, hey, let's set up a couple of tables and just load it with treats here at the gym. What was that committee meeting like? I don't know.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
The new Kevin Hart comedy special that's on Netflix that I watched the other day is pretty dang funny. But anyway, he was talking about how he didn't. He was at a big gathering, family gathering, and he didn't order dessert at the restaurant. And one of his uncles was like, well, you're too big for dessert. Mr. Hollywood won't eat dessert with us. Everything like that. And Kevin Hart said, look under the table. All I see is a whole bunch of left feet. Oh, my God. We don't know how this family is, I guess in the black community particularly, he says in his comedy special, it's a. Diabetes is a big problem.
Joe Getty
Yeah, that's true.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
Losing your foot. Good Lord.
Joe Getty
It's a dark joke.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
Everybody laughed.
Joe Getty
Wow.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
Got big laughs. This might get laughs from you. So Katie had the story earlier of moms who are getting involved in their kids bumble profiles because they're 20 something or 30 somethings, aren't married yet and they're thinking maybe they could spruce it up for him. We got this text. My mom helped me with my profile is she wanted something more positive than single divorced dad. That's only hope is you're shreking me. Remember Shreking? Is Shreking still a thing? Or was it ever actually a thing? Dating someone? For women, dating a dude you know is beneath you. Which is a horrible term because they'll be nicer to you.
Joe Getty
They'll worship you in a desperate attempt to hold on to you.
Jack Armstrong (main host)
Yes, they'll treat you better. That's Shrek. And you're dating Shrek because he'll treat you better.
Joe Getty
I don't like humans.
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Date: December 16, 2025
Hosts: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty
In this episode, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty tackle hot political news, the realities of radical Islam and immigration in Western society, revealing White House interviews, and some uniquely personal stories and asides. With their trademark wit and no-nonsense banter, they discuss media hypocrisy, culture clash, and public safety, while also promoting their ongoing Boy Scouts fundraiser and engaging with their listeners.
"Marco Rubio has ruled out running if JD Vance decides to run, which is pretty big news. ...might be a glide path for J.D. Vance to the nomination."
— Jack Armstrong (03:35)
“I don't know how that could be taken out of context.”
— Jack Armstrong (04:48)
“Elon Musk is an avowed ketamine user and an odd, odd duck.”
— Joe Getty (04:54)
“She grew up with an alcoholic dad. ...Says Trump has an alcoholic's personality.”
— Joe Getty (05:52)
"We have a loose agreement that the score settling will end before the first 90 days are over... There may be an element of that from time to time. Who would blame him? Not me."
— Joe Getty, quoting Susie Wiles (06:16)
“The President was ticked. The President was mighty unhappy. I don't know why they moved her. Neither does the President.”
— Joe Getty (07:30)
"Okay, I still yet—my jaw is not dropped. My jaw is in its normal spot."
— Jack Armstrong (13:47)
"Perhaps you have lockjaw. Have you been bitten by a hyena lately or anything like that?"
— Joe Getty (13:53)
“To me, it's like horse thievery, hangings.”
— Joe Getty (18:35)
"He said, I want to go wish that pig good luck... I said, it's too late. It's dead as a hammer."
— Jack Armstrong (20:42, 21:08)
“Watch out for these symptoms [Islamophobia accusations]. They are not just symptoms of surrender.”
— Christopher Hitchens (clip) (26:07)
“It's the xenophilia of the leftist forces in America... their commandment number one: be contemptuous of your own culture.”
— Joe Getty (29:07)
“The idea that you can't draw a picture of Muhammad when you're not Muslim because it would just be too... you're inviting. You provoked it.”
— Jack Armstrong (32:19)
“It's a difference between a religion of turning the other cheek and a religion of kill those who oppose us.”
— Joe Getty (37:33)
“If your wife hadn't pushed you go to the doctor when she noticed something wrong with your toe. ...you could have what, lost your foot? Your leg?”
— Jack Armstrong (44:54)
“All I see is a whole bunch of left feet.”
— Kevin Hart joke, recounted by Jack Armstrong (46:03)
“Remember Shreking? Is Shreking still a thing? ...For women, dating a dude you know is beneath you... they’ll treat you better.”
— Jack Armstrong (46:16)
For listeners who missed the show, this episode is packed with insight and opinion on political maneuvering, insider Washington gossip, urgent cultural debates, and memorable personal storytelling. Armstrong & Getty remain unafraid to air unpopular truths while keeping their audience entertained and engaged.