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Jack Armstrong
So hit hard with the rotavirus Tuesday night. Google it or chat GPT it. It's going around the country, particularly Northern California, but there's hot spots all around the country. It's a stomach thing. Hits you all of a sudden, man. It did me. It's like I went from perfectly fine to good God, what's wrong with me? Like, immediately, wow. Thought I was gonna vomit or whatever. Anyway, so I slept all day Wednesday and much of the day yesterday and consequently didn't sleep at all last night. Not a single minute.
Joe Getty
Oh, my Lord.
Jack Armstrong
Which I've only done a few times in my life. But I didn't sleep a single minute. And like, wasn't even close. I just wasn't tired. Anyway, at some point during the night, I decided, for who knows what reason, to watch Woody Allen's Annie Hall.
Joe Getty
Wow.
Jack Armstrong
And that's crazy.
Joe Getty
I thought of that movie the other day. Did something happen?
Jack Armstrong
Could be. Maybe. Maybe we both were struck by something that caused us to think about it. But something I wanted to say about that. But we'll have to do that after clips of it.
Joe Getty
Okay, let's take a fond look back at the week that was. It's the beloved Friday tradition, cow clips of the week. Repeated mixed signals on a deal to end the war with Iran.
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Look, what President Trump has done here is create an unbearable situation for the Iranian regime.
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Oman will behave just like everybody else.
Joe Getty
So we'll have to blow them up. They understand that. They'll be fine.
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And here today we are starting to see the situation simmering down with neither side indicating the ceasefire is faltering.
Joe Getty
Tax 100%. Anyone from California that receives any of those funds we want to tax 100%.
Jack Armstrong
California is actually the worst managed state in the union. I would never invest there.
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The consequences for zombie people, they don't have them.
Jack Armstrong
It's like anarchy. It's like. It's psycho.
Joe Getty
These people, when I unplug them, they're
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all going to Seattle where the mayor will welcome them. We will focus on the worst landlords in New York City. We will work to transfer ownership to responsible stewards. Five police officers were injured after officials say an 18 year old driver plowed into a crowd. If we believe that we can arrest our Way towards safety.
Joe Getty
We're wrong.
Jack Armstrong
Ken Paxton is the most corrupt politician in America.
Joe Getty
I mean, he's a vegan who thinks
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God is non binary and that there's actually six biological sexes.
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Here we see the US Secretary of Health and Human Services wrangling and removing a pair of black racer snakes from Dr. Oz's patio. The FBI seizing 300 gold bars along
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with $2 million in cash and 35
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luxury watches from the Virginia home of David Rush.
Joe Getty
Stunningly driver Katie Thomas holds up her right arm, revealing she doesn't have her right hand. Obviously not. So you just called. I don't want to call a day. You had a handheld. You have a dirty mouth, but it's constant with this. This is what these people do. We'll see. Bitch. Nazi bitch.
Jack Armstrong
That's what you are.
Joe Getty
You can come to my house. I'll make you food and lasagna or whatever you want.
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I have a pool.
Joe Getty
What happened?
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I don't know what happened.
Joe Getty
I mean, as I watched it, I thought, oh, my God, he's having a stroke.
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It's clips of the week.
Joe Getty
I'm telling you, Britney Spears offers to make me a lasagna and go swimming. I'm in.
Jack Armstrong
Hard to say no to. We got a text. I'll bet she puts peas in her lasagna. I don't know if that's a thing, but I did know somebody who made great lasagna but insisted on having olives in it. And it's the only time I'd ever had olives in it.
Joe Getty
Oh, yeah.
Jack Armstrong
I didn't dig it at all, but
Joe Getty
I could see olives. You didn't dig it?
Jack Armstrong
Pick them out?
Joe Getty
No, it just seems olives are an Italian thing. Appease just seems out of left field to me.
Jack Armstrong
And then that one story, if you didn't hear it, is a woman got pulled over by the cops for the stupid ticket of having a cell phone in your hand. But anyway, the cop said, I saw
Joe Getty
it in your right hand.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, yeah, I don't have a hand.
Joe Getty
She holds up her arm.
Jack Armstrong
That's a good one.
Joe Getty
He gave her the ticket anyway until the. The police department was so ridiculed that they said, never mind. Oh, boy.
Jack Armstrong
So at the be. So. Have you ever seen Annie Hall? I don't know if you all have. Woody Allen movie, one Best Picture, I think the year it came Oscar. It's a fantastic movie.
Joe Getty
God, I watched.
Jack Armstrong
I probably watched half of it last night. It is brilliant. It's brilliant. Now. I can't imagine how brilliant it was for its Time because it was so different than anything that had ever been. Anyway, Woody comes on there at the very beginning and the opening and says there's an old joke where this old woman is at a restaurant and she said, God, this food is terrible and the portions are so small. And he said, it's kind of like life. I mean, you spend all your time in misery and struggle and work and worry and it goes by too fast, which is very similar sort of thing. And for whatever reason, watching the movie got me thinking about reading his memoir. Apropos of Nothing, I believe, is his memoir by Woody Allen. It's really great if you have any interest in Woody Allen or really just movies and show business, because he started out as a stand up comedian way, way, way back in the day of early television and then became a famous director. And he knows everybody famous that's ever existed. One of the interesting things about him is he, he's a hardcore atheist. He's a real big, none of this matters. And when you're dead, you're dead. And it's all just an accident of, you know, science that a smart being existed and, and his movies mean nothing ultimately and nobody will remember him and that sort of thing. And he's fine with that. And I just, I, I think it's, it's interesting to go about trying to enjoy life when you've got the mindset of. He's got. He never goes to award shows, he doesn't receive. He doesn't go pick up awards if he's nominated. He doesn't watch them. He doesn't care if he wins or loses. He's never seen any of his movies. He works, he directs him and everything like that. He doesn't watch him. He just, he has no interest in any of that sort of stuff. He, he said, like, there's usually a ball game on opposite the Oscars. I'd much rather watch that. And, and I just, I think that's an interesting. I, I admire that in some ways, but I can't figure out where you get your happiness. His happiness is just in his work. He likes creating art, but he only likes creating it. He has no interest in what other people think of it. He doesn't read reviews, you know, all the things they said. He doesn't watch them.
Joe Getty
He doesn't even watch them. I mean, that's, that's where it crosses the line into crazy.
Jack Armstrong
Well, to me you'd have to see it enough. You'd see a lot by, in the editing process. I mean, he's the Director. And so you'd see a lot of it. But he doesn't ever, you know, sit down and watch the whole movie end to end, or ever want to see it again or read a review or.
Joe Getty
No.
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Or cares what anybody thinks of. Just does it and moves on. And I just. On one end, I wish I could live my life that way with a lot of different things on the other end. I don't know where you get your joy.
Joe Getty
I guess it's all going out. Going out for dinner in Manhattan with friends and having a lively conversation.
Jack Armstrong
He goes to the same restaurant and orders the same thing every night and has for, like, 60 years, which is interesting. I could do that.
Joe Getty
Yeah.
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That I. Cookie.
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That I really.
Jack Armstrong
And then, you know, I figure a Woody Allen hater, you say, and you, you know, marry your child. Start sexing up your child. Which is inaccurate.
Joe Getty
I believe that to be true. Yes. What you just said, speaking of New York City, I thought this was so good. I don't know. Josh Barrow, the writer, he's vaguely familiar, but he pointed out the other day that if you wonder why hotels in New York are so expensive, this is why. As he said, you know what rents are? Not. You. You. You, like, rent an apartment. But rent seeking, it's a term economists use, meaning you manipulate the government into doing you a favor or passing a regulation that benefits you. And the financial gain you get from that is called rent by economists. Why, I don't know. But Mr. Barrow points out the hotel union and the hotel owners worked together to get the city to ban new hotels. Hotel rates soared, and now labor and capital are dividing up the rents collected. And it's connected to the headline from the New York Times. The average pay of housekeepers in New York City hotels will increase to more than $100,000 a year as part of a contract settlement between an industry trade group and a powerful union. And that's the way rent seeking works. You cook up some flimsy excuse to limit any competition so you can jack up your rates. And then the union says, hey, we want our cut. And you say, that's cool. That's fine, because we're making much higher profits now. And who suffers? The customers and the citizens. What's so brilliant about these unions is that they then put you in the unfortunate position of arguing that housekeepers should be paid less than, like, software engineers. Then someone yells at you that there's no such thing as unskilled labor. Then you just throw up your hands and say, fine, let's abandon capitalism.
Jack Armstrong
Fine.
Joe Getty
$2,500 for two full beds on the smoking floor of a Times Square Marriott. Okay. Super. Yeah. Yep. They're actually dovetailing off the. The huge new deal. The Long Island Railroad got. Public employee union, monopoly on service. No competition, union lawyers on both sides of the bargaining table. It's. Oh, well.
Jack Armstrong
So getting back to the idea of trying to be happy with what you do or whatever, or just trying to be happy in general. Do you ever listen? You made several albums with your band. Do you ever listen to them?
Joe Getty
Yeah, sure.
Jack Armstrong
You do? Yeah. And you get enjoyment in that?
Joe Getty
Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean, I can't do it too much or they're just kind of worn out, but.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
Joe Getty
I don't think it. Pleasure from it.
Jack Armstrong
I don't think there's anything wrong with that. Just.
Joe Getty
No.
Jack Armstrong
But it's interesting to me that, like, only enjoying the process of things. Mm.
Joe Getty
I know Tom Petty has said that he. He never listens to the stuff when it's done.
Jack Armstrong
I wonder if people who are really great at stuff because I've said this before about the. The great one, maybe the greatest college basketball coach of all time, Bobby Knight. Maybe the greatest basketball coach of all time, Bobby Knight, he was asked after retired and everything like that, you know, if he could relive something or whatever. And he'd said if I. It's not the win in the championship or whatever, it's the process. That's what I like. If I could do anything again, it would be a dark gym, me alone with some guys, getting better. That's what I liked. The winning. It is just, you know, what comes at the end of that. But it's the process. And I wonder if that's how you get really, really good at stuff, is that you enjoy the process so much, like Larry Bird and Kobe Bryant or whoever else who are already great, but get to the gym six hours before everybody else and shoot.
Joe Getty
Right. That's absolutely true. 100 true. I've seen that in a number of different realms. Human activities. Number one. If I could be like a Tom Petty and be constantly working on new stuff, I wouldn't listen to the old stuff much either. I'd be too busy. But I just don't have time. I've seen it in golf especially because there are, like, my son was super talented golfer, but he had no interest in grinding, in practicing, in working on his game, which is fine. You don't have to. And there are other kids that. That were contemporaries of his that just loved being on the range, loved working on their swings and they were the ones who really excelled at it. So.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, that's an interesting philosophy. The nut. It's like I've, I've, I, I don't. I haven't listened to our radio show really much and I don't know that I ever will. Ever. When it's over someday, will I ever go back and listen to it? Yeah, you either.
Joe Getty
No. Including when we're doing it. No, I, Yeah, that's, that's, yeah, Yeah, I do sometimes just to remind myself to avoid certain, you know, pitfalls. But not very often because all I can hear are the flaws. Makes me insane.
Jack Armstrong
You think you will, like, years from now? Want to listen to it?
Joe Getty
Yeah, probably a little bit.
Jack Armstrong
I wonder.
Joe Getty
Although, for God's sake, I don't. Will we still be doing it, lady? Ah, tell you what, 70 year olds these days, they just don't know what they're talking about.
Jack Armstrong
President Baron Trump.
Joe Getty
He's just like his old man. You don't remember him. It was many years ago. You made it rhyme louder than it's
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rhyme a long time. That's what I'll sound like. We got more on the way. Stay here.
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Apparently there's a TikTok trend going around that's popular in Utah. First time he makes that choice, he sits on the couch. The couch leg breaks and he goes flying and it's a horrible, horrible accident. Doctors and nurses told us that this is the third Case they've seen of couch surfing here at Primary Children's, this terrible accident happened. And it's one more thing to talk to your kids about.
Joe Getty
Okay.
Jack Armstrong
It's a TikTok trend like these things become. And this one, what? They're strapping couches behind cars and pulling them down the street and riding them for fun.
Joe Getty
I appreciate the term couch surfing as its double meaning is clear. I would suggest to that person droning into their phone, you don't caution your child against doing every single incredibly stupid thing separately. You kind of make a blanket lesson out of don't do things that are incredibly stupid and dangerous.
Jack Armstrong
Speaking of.
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Well, you told me not to jump on a couch being pulled down the street at a high speed, but you never said about anything about an easy chair, so I did it.
Jack Armstrong
Stupid ottoman strapped to the wing of a plane, so.
Joe Getty
Exactly.
Jack Armstrong
We talked about this story at the time the sentencing came down yesterday. The Los Gatos party mom, what a story. Do you remember her?
Joe Getty
Oh, yeah, vaguely.
Jack Armstrong
Got teens drunk, pressured them to have sex. Got the maximum prison sentence yesterday. She is as kooky as anybody's ever been. Particularly unique, kind of crazy. You know, you got the. The weird teachers who want to sex up young guys and relive their. I don't know what this woman was doing. She's 52 years old. She was sentenced to 35 years and 10 months. So she's going to spend the rest of her life in jail for hosting alcohol fueled teen parties and orchestrating sexual encounters among minors during the pandemic. And these were kid kids ages 13 to 15. So it wasn't even like 16 to 18. 13 year olds. And she was.
Joe Getty
I'm 17, you wouldn't have had to pressure me very much. But 13 to 15 year olds, that's just perverse.
Jack Armstrong
Guilty of 48 charges including sexual penetration of an intoxicated victim, influencing a child to engage in sexual activity with another child, providing alcohol to a minor, annoying or molesting a child. Annoying and attempting to sway to witness from reporting a crime. I'll drop the annoying and just keep in there for all the other horrible stuff.
Joe Getty
If annoying people were a crime, I'd be wearing an orange jumpsuit right now. Let's be serious.
Jack Armstrong
She provided vodka, fireball, whiskey, beer and hard seltzers to Party attendees, mostly 13 to 15. Gave them condoms and encouraged them to gauge in sexual activity while intoxicated. It was kind of like people who dump bum fights. But she was doing sex. She'd get them so hammered they were vomiting and passed out and like, convince them to have sex when they're too drunk to even know what the hell was going on.
Joe Getty
What a sicko.
Jack Armstrong
I know. Craziness.
Joe Getty
Yeah, Seattle's crumbling. Coming up in a moment or two. And the worst chant ever.
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Joe Getty
That is the antifa types and far Leftists and would be Marxist revolutionaries who have moved their camp to New Jersey now and are demonstrating and blocking and committing acts of violence outside an immigration center.
Jack Armstrong
What were they saying in New Jersey?
Joe Getty
Every cop, every fed, shoot yourself in the head. All right, Marcus Espinosa reporting.
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This has been escalating all week. Thursday night, in fact, got tense extremely quickly. Protesters using trash cans, umbrellas and makeshift shields trying to block vehicles from entering and leaving the facility.
Joe Getty
And then they played the chanting. We'll skip that, Michael, and go to the next clip.
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Advocates, family members and Democratic lawmakers say detainees have reported spoiled food, limited medical care and an ongoing hunger strike. But DHS strongly disputes those claims. The agency posting on social media that detainees are having all their needs met with Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen stating health officials were allowed to inspect that food service and its operations Thursday. But those assurances aren't satisfying enough for everyone out here.
Jack Armstrong
I. I don't want to give people spoiled food, but how good is the food supposed to be when I sneak into your country and you catch me?
Joe Getty
How.
Jack Armstrong
How good is it supposed to be?
Joe Getty
We had the talk, a tough talk in Mark Wayne audio yesterday. I thought we had it today. But he saying, look, we're not running a holiday in here. These people are getting three meals a day in medical care and fresh water. Fresh, clean water. It's fine. I would tend to agree. Let's end with this final clip.
Jack Armstrong
My boy, I have your face. You're dead.
Joe Getty
That's one of the Marxist protesters. Kill your whole family. I have your face. You're dead. I'm gonna kill them all. You're dead. Right, There you go. That's your leftist politics. Antifa doesn't exist, by the way. Remember that. Hey, Karamba.
Jack Armstrong
There isn't. Is there anybody? Wouldn't be very many people that are. Look, I believe in having borders. You have to have borders. Illegal immigration is wrong. It drives down wages. But I'm out here protesting because we're not treating them well enough. Most the hardcore protesters out there want open borders.
Joe Getty
Right.
Jack Armstrong
And this is a good reason to. It gives them. It gives them cover for that. Right?
Joe Getty
Exactly. Yeah. It's the. The hook. Meanwhile, on the other coast in Seattle. Great report here.
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Now, it was obvious from the get go, the moment that the former public transit activist announced her candidacy for mayor, that Katie Wilson would be a living nightmare for Seattle. And now the crime is so bad that the police union is even taking on her incompetence. That city is now giving us scenes like this. Residents are fed Up. And they know that as long as Katie Wilson is in charge, the city is not going to help them. They've been abandoned. So they're taking their safety into their own hands. And they're building makeshift barricades, large metal planter boxes filled with dirt and gravel, trying to block off residential streets near one of Seattle's busiest and most dangerous areas, Aurora Ave. North.
Jack Armstrong
It's terrifying to live here and it's even more terrifying that the city is absolutely doing nothing to protect the citizens in this neighborhood.
Joe Getty
We're just afraid that somebody, that a neighbor's going to have to die before
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the city will do something.
Joe Getty
I love the detail that they're actually, and those are obviously, you know, sane, reasonable people. They're building themselves military style barricades so that vehicles can't keep on, can, can't come on their streets.
Jack Armstrong
I've seen those.
Joe Getty
Yeah, thugs and shooters on foot are bad enough but let's just. We gotta. They're blocking off their streets. That's not a thing in America. If it were happening on Seattle, if
Jack Armstrong
it were happening on the east coast it would get tons of attention. But it doesn't because it's the west coast.
Joe Getty
You know, go ahead and run. Our old buddy Jason Rance there, Michael,
Jack Armstrong
you've got a bunch of neighbors who
Joe Getty
are sick and tired of almost 100
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separate shootings over the course of the last couple. There's open air, drug use, prostitution everywhere, homelessness everywhere. And now they're saying, okay, we're going to put up these barriers.
Joe Getty
Problem is cities already said they're going to take the barriers down and they're
Jack Armstrong
not going to do anything different.
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They'll throw out some press release that says, hey, we're going to have some more police action, some more proactive policing in the neighborhood. The problem is you don't have enough cops to do that.
Joe Getty
We have just a little under 900 officers for the entire city of Seattle
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in a city that needs about 1600
Joe Getty
so they can do any kind of
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enforcement for maybe a day or two. But you're just leaving another neighborhood vulnerable.
Joe Getty
So we'll just have one of these stories somewhere else.
Jack Armstrong
God, I remember the first time I went to Seattle. Going on 30 years ago. Thank you, Gladys.
Joe Getty
A cloudy day.
Jack Armstrong
So cool, so clean, so safe feeling and just so cool. It's like I remember saying, similar with Portland. The same way they're like clean San Francisco's. They're all the cool of San Francisco but clean. Yeah, that's when San Francisco was much cleaner than what it became. But, you know, policy matters. As we say over and over again.
Joe Getty
It really does. For fans of leftist train wrecks, this Katie Wilson has the potential to be speaking of Seattle like the Jimi Hendrix of bad leftist mayors. She could make Brandon Johnson of Chicago look like Mayor Daley. I mean, real potential there bears watching. And I, for one, I'm looking forward to it. Sorry, friends in Seattle, truly, for what you must endure.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, Unbelievable. I wonder how long they'll put up with it. They were ready for another go around of a socialist mayor, Communist mayor, Marxist mayor, but they don't.
Joe Getty
They won't connect the, the terrible outcomes with the policies. They'll blame capitalism or something. Once somebody's delusional, it becomes really hard to reel them back with facts because they are by definition unable to process them. There's the challenge, there's the rub. As Shakespeare might say.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, I've been on a Shakespeare kick lately. Really enjoying.
Joe Getty
Really. Oh, my son's gonna be in. Did I tell you this? He's finally getting back to acting.
Jack Armstrong
Cool.
Joe Getty
I'm shaking my head and rolling my ass. He's doing some summer Shakespeare.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, awesome.
Joe Getty
And he's got two parts in this play because the first character, spoiler alert. Doesn't live through the intermission. He dies at the end of the first act, and he plays a totally different character in the second half. And he loves doing Shakespeare. But one of the reasons he's so excited about this, they're both very colorful characters with some comedic stuff, but he gets to act out his favorite stage direction. In all of Shakespeare, you have your lines right and then you have your stage directions. His favorite stage direction is exit, pursued by bear. That's what his part does.
Jack Armstrong
I'm glad that there are still places that put on Shakespeare plays because there are not universities where they still teach Shakespeare in literature. I've been reading a lot about that lately and it's just amazing. If Shakespeare comes up, up, it's to deconstruct it on.
Joe Getty
Decolonize Shakespeare.
Jack Armstrong
It was, yeah, it was all white males and all that sort of crap, but. But none about, you know, it being, by most people's minds, the greatest writing of all time, drama and comedy, that sort of stuff. But yeah, that's a problem. What? I'm glad they're still putting on the plays. Yeah, let's have a, a joke before we take a break. Can I hear joke number two there, Michael? This is time. He's. All the late night shows are on vacation right now. So. This is Seth Meyers from I Don't know when.
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going to get so skinny. That's a great joke.
Jack Armstrong
Having just talked about the bubonic plague the other day, how about the Jimmy Fallon joke before we take a break?
Joe Getty
Well, as the ongoing pilot shortage leads to more flight cancellations, senators have introduced a new bill to raise the mandatory
Jack Armstrong
retirement age for pilots.
Joe Getty
Yeah, that's who passengers want flying their plane.
Jack Armstrong
A pilot who thought his best days were behind him.
Joe Getty
He's like, I'm back.
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Joe Getty
You'll know the pilot's older when he gets assigned gate B7 and yells bingo. You know, speaking of flying. Yeah, go ahead.
Jack Armstrong
I was gonna say I got a buddy who's a private pilot and he, he, he keeps getting his salary doubled for them to keep him because there just aren't enough pilots out there.
Joe Getty
Wow.
Jack Armstrong
Damn it.
Joe Getty
I missed my calling.
Jack Armstrong
Go out there.
Joe Getty
Speaking of flying, flight attendants are united in asking us to stop doing this. We'll tell you what this is. He says chivalry right after the. Right after the break.
Jack Armstrong
Stay with us.
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before we head out for the weekend updates on both wars with some new information of Vladimir Zielinski, President of Ukraine just told CBS News that he sees Russia preparing a big massive attack using drones, cruise and ballistic missiles to take place today or tomorrow night with reports that large waves of one way attack drones have already been launched at Ukraine. So wow, this might be practically a last ditch effort by Putin as he's been losing in the last couple of months. Anywho, on the other war, the war with war fighting against Iran, Donald Trump is having a meeting right now in the White House situation room to make a final determination on the whole U.S. iran deal that we don't exactly know what the details are, but so that might happen today. And then finally this from the Financial Times. The director general of the iaea, that's your International Atomic Energy Agency, is talking about Kazakhstan taking Iran's highly enriched uranium stockpiles. So that's what that deal would be anyway.
Joe Getty
Now I gotta get up to speed on Kazakhstani politics. Yes. Job. Tell you what.
Jack Armstrong
What?
Joe Getty
I've had enough. I don't know if that's a good idea or the worst idea I've ever heard my life. Right. So flight attendant sets your air Waitresses are united in one request, nay demand, please stop poking them. Evidently they say every single day that happens, somebody pokes them in the arm to get their attention or in the ribs or in the rear end. And passengers evidently think that that's okay. And they interview a bunch of this Washington Post flight attendants who you talk to any flight attendant for any airline, they will all agree it's something that we cannot stand and that we deal with so often it's insane. Says this one gal has been pinched on. Oh, this is a fellow who's been pinched on his butt multiple Times what?
Jack Armstrong
So I just take my glass once it's empty with the ice cubes in it and shake it. Cheeka cheeka cheeky cheek. Hello, honey.
Joe Getty
Right. Hey. Hey, sweetheart. Or just, you know, you know, just.
Jack Armstrong
I whistle. Well, what so difference between a poke and a tap. I mean, how are you supposed to get your attention?
Joe Getty
No, don't touch them. Yes. Many a parent has said to many a toddler, use your words. So let me read this to you. Flight attendants know you need them for a drink or snack, to toss your trash, to answer a question, but they really, really want you to communicate your using physical contact. It's a situation that unfolds so infrequently on planes that some cabin crews wear patches, lanyards, or decorated aprons with no touching as a plea on them like
Jack Armstrong
they're a comfort dog in training.
Joe Getty
Yeah, see, it's funny. You're no petty. Well, you got to get their attention. I would never touch a flight.
Jack Armstrong
I don't know that I have, but I might have.
Joe Getty
I don't know.
Jack Armstrong
I. I've never really thought about it.
Joe Getty
Yank on their sleeve like a little kid.
Jack Armstrong
I don't drink, so I don't ever. No, I rarely like need anything beyond what they. When they come by and offer you something.
Joe Getty
Yeah. Says one head of the flight, run
Jack Armstrong
your hand up, like up and down their leg.
Joe Getty
That's okay. Yep. One head of a flight attendants union says you probably wouldn't go into a restaurant and poke your waitress. You wouldn't go into a coffee shop and grab the shirt of your barista and they go into the psychology of why people think that's probably okay. They're in close quarters. Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
Because no, you wouldn't ever probably touch the waitress.
Joe Getty
Here's a caption of like an Instagram or a tick tock. Oh, why did, why did you do that? I hate you. All right. Dang it. The flight attendant passed my seat with a drinks car and I thought she skipped our row. So I touched her arm gently and said, sorry, when you get a chance, can I trouble you? But she cut me off and said back to me loudly, do not touch the flight attendants. Everybody turned to look. I know she's right and I shouldn't have tapped her. But now my entire week is ruined and I'm spiraling and I may never recover because interactions like these haunt me for years.
Jack Armstrong
Uh oh, I'm in a shame spiral.
Joe Getty
I woke up in a shame spiral. You'll be fine.
Jack Armstrong
That's funny.
Joe Getty
So don't poke the flight attendants.
Jack Armstrong
Well, as they eliminate more and more of that sort of stuff on a plane, there will be less need to ever poke them because they're not going to give you anything.
Joe Getty
Right, right. Just. Just sit perfectly still, staring forward. You didn't pay extra for looking around. All right, that's right.
Jack Armstrong
They'll have a little thing that holds your head. Sports. You can't turn it. If you want to look out the window, that's an extra 18.
Joe Getty
Excuse me, I. I can't get the shade up. Yeah, that's a. There's a charge for that. It's an 18 charge to look out the window.
Jack Armstrong
Okay, I got the shade up, but I can't turn my head. Well, that's a head turning fee and that's $24.
Joe Getty
Oh, you want to look around, do you? Right.
Jack Armstrong
Your head's locked into this vice thing, man.
Joe Getty
Judy and I are, we're doing our big anniversary cruise and it's a quote unquote international flight. And it's like a crack of dawn flight. We got to get there in the middle of the night, in theory to check our luggage and our passports and stuff and then sit there in the airport for three hours.
Jack Armstrong
Fun.
Joe Getty
It's ridiculous. I need to fly private. What does that cost? Never mind. You know you wanna happy, Andy. I'm Jack Armstrong and Jo Getty. Final daunting.
Jack Armstrong
Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Joe Getty
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew to wrap up the day and the show and the week. There he is, Michelangelo in the control room pressing the buttons. Michael, what's your final thought? Yeah, to get the flight attendants attention. I have a small flashlight that's a strobe and I hold it up and you know, during red eyes that you can really get their attention. You know, that's the other thing that the antifa goons were doing to the cops. They're flashing strobes in their eyes. I'd beat them down for that. That's why I'm not a cop. Jack, final thought.
Jack Armstrong
I'm trying to prepare myself mentally. Maybe I should talk to your son, the actor, how you get in character. Because we're going to record a one more thing podcast that is going to be the most curse filled podcast we've ever done. If I can get in character, it's going to have more bad language than any podcast we've ever done by far.
Joe Getty
Folks, I have no idea what he's talking about. I too am sure shocked. My final thoughts. Speaking of my son, his sister is my daughter and we're seeing her this weekend partly because she need. I shouldn't say. I shouldn't say this. She needs to learn how to play mahjong very quickly for professional reasons.
Jack Armstrong
What's mahjong?
Joe Getty
It's a game. Card game. It's a tile game, Chinese origin. Extremely popular. It's like the hottest thing in America right now.
Jack Armstrong
Really?
Joe Getty
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
I don't know that I've ever even heard the word.
Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
Wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
Joe Getty
So many people. Thanks.
Jack Armstrong
A little time.
Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, have a good weekend of playing mahjong. We'll see on Monday. God bless America.
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Episode: Poked & Pinched
Date: May 29, 2026
Hosts: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty
This episode of Armstrong & Getty On Demand features the typical sharp-witted banter between Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty as they discuss a range of topics: from Jack’s personal bout with the rotavirus, musings on the philosophy of achievement and happiness referencing Woody Allen, major stories in current events, dystopian city realities, “couch surfing” TikTok dangers, an infamous “party mom,” and why you shouldn’t poke your flight attendant. As always, the tone is irreverent, insightful, and peppered with humor.
“It’s kind of like life: you spend all your time in misery and struggle and work and worry, and it goes by too fast.”
“I admire that in some ways, but I can’t figure out where you get your happiness.”
“You’re blocking off your streets. That’s not a thing in America.”
“They’ll have a little thing that holds your head so you can’t turn it. If you want to look out the window, that’s an extra $18.”
This episode embodies Armstrong & Getty’s brand of range: hilariously curmudgeonly, politically sharp, culturally literate, and always inviting listeners to both laugh and think. From musings on fame and happiness, to American urban decline and the etiquette of airline travel, Poked & Pinched is both entertaining and thought-provoking for anyone who missed the broadcast.