"So Many Freaking Progressives!" Says Big Foot

Summary

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Armstrong & Getty On Demand

Episode: “So Many Freaking Progressives!” Says Big Foot

Date: March 13, 2026
Hosts: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty
Podcast Network: iHeartPodcasts

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Episode Overview

This episode of Armstrong & Getty On Demand tackles several major news stories of the week—from terrorism and antisemitic attacks in America to the diplomatic and military crisis in Iran. The hosts blend hard-hitting analysis with their signature irreverence, touching on topics like multiculturalism, failures in media coverage, healthcare fraud, and even a lighter segment on a rash of Bigfoot sightings in Ohio. Notably, the episode features a frank reading of an “all-timer” judicial dissent and skepticism over progressive attitudes on government accountability.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Recent String of Terrorist and Antisemitic Attacks

• Main Story:
  A wave of violent attacks, including shootings at synagogues and universities—largely perpetrated by Islamic extremists—has swept the U.S., particularly targeting Jewish communities.
• Media Critique:
  The hosts rail against what they perceive as media reluctance to discuss the religious motivation or even label these events as “terrorism.”
  • Jack Armstrong: “If you forbid people from speaking honestly about this... the only people going to be talking about it are the far right and then they will gain power. You don't want that. Be honest.” ([05:00])
• Government & Security Response:
  Details are given about how attacks were averted thanks to quick action on the ground, notably by ROTC students at Old Dominion University, and armed synagogue personnel in Michigan.
  • Michael: “God bless those ROTC students. They're heroes. They've learned what they were supposed to learn. They took decisive action.” ([07:14])
  • Notable phrase from FBI (highlighted with irony by hosts): “...subdued him and rendered him no longer alive.” ([06:49])
• The Nature of Terror Labels:
  Hosts argue that the definition of terrorism has become “completely useless” due to inconsistent application.
  • Armstrong: “The term terrorism has always been nearly useless. Now it's completely useless.” ([06:14])

2. Failure of Mainstream Media

• Hosts decry major networks for downplaying or omitting coverage of antisemitic and Islamist-motivated terrorism.
  • Michael: “The lack of coverage... just was unbelievable to me. I flipped on MSNBC... watched 15 minutes before they even mentioned the story.” ([15:25])
  • Armstrong: “It's extremely uncomfortable for the left, and the media is the left.” ([15:43])

3. Political Correctness & Multiculturalism

• The conversation turns to the perils of “multiculturalism” when it collides with western values, especially women's rights.
  • Michael: “You have women that are subdued to the point they're only allowed to show their eyeballs. And we put up with that and act like that's... just multiculturalism. Women of America, Democratic women, educated white Democrat women, you're okay with that under the umbrella of multiculturalism?” ([13:32])
• Armstrong connects back to the earlier point that tolerance has its limits if authorities don't enforce core social norms.

4. Notable Quotes on Antisemitism

• Rabbi Steve Lader, LA:
  “This is not a snowball fight. This is an attempt to bring the ovens to the Jews instead of the Nazis who brought the Jews to the ovens.” ([10:59])
• Sen. Alyssa Slotkin (D-MI):
  “Whether antisemitism is coming from the left or the right... you have a responsibility to call it out. Because when you don't, it gives permission for people to climb that escalation, that ladder... from saying hateful things online... to ultimately violence. And the Jewish community suffers 10 times the number of hate crimes than any other community in this country.” ([11:58])
• Hosts praise Slotkin for her courage in voicing this unequivocally.

5. Bigfoot Sightings in Ohio—Comic Relief Segment

• After a heavy first two-thirds, the show pivots to a flurry of Bigfoot sightings in Ohio, sparked by a cluster of social media reports.
  • Jack (Satirical): “He got out, can't stand the politics, moved to Ohio. So many freaking progressives, says Bigfoot.” ([21:35])
• Several alleged sightings described, with the hosts riffing on Bigfoot’s “shrinking” stature in witness reports and the commodification of Bigfoot paraphernalia.
• Michael (on cryptozoology): “I'm glad you invented a word for something that doesn't exist.” ([22:22])
• This segment offers levity and their signature wry banter.

6. Iran Crisis—Diplomacy, Military Reality & Oil

• The hosts break down U.S.-Iran tensions following attacks on Gulf states, closure threats to the Strait of Hormuz, and the limits of American military options.
  • Michael: “The shipping lanes are too narrow and the vessels are too vulnerable... The only lasting solution to the strait is a diplomatic one. That's what they determined in the 2000s.” ([29:15])
  • Armstrong: “Let’s give it a good two and a half decades of trying every diplomatic route... and it fails. So, oh boy.” ([30:00])
• They cite reporting from the AP, Wall Street Journal, and New York Times that Iran’s regime is not close to collapse, despite intense military action.
• They read out Iran's “bizarre” diplomatic demands for reparations before agreeing to talks.
  • Michael: “You gotta pay us back for everything you destroyed before we'll even consider opening the Strait of Hormuz.” ([34:13])
  • Armstrong: “That's like Hitler from his bunker in... April 45. I'll give you one last chance to submit. This is my last warning.” ([35:14])

7. Segment: “All-Time” Judicial Dissent Highlight

• Jack shares his favorite judicial dissent, notable for its shocking candor from Justice Van Dyke (Ninth Circuit), involving a case about a Korean women-only spa being told to accept transgender women with male anatomy:
  • Van Dyke: “This is a case about swinging dicks... You may think that swinging dicks shouldn't appear in a judicial opinion, you're not wrong. But... it is far more jarring for the unsuspected and exposed women at Olympus Spa, some as young as 13 years old, to be visually assaulted by the same thing.” ([38:08])
• The hosts discuss the rhetorical impact, with Michael noting: “Did you need to say that to make the point?... It is kind of bad to see this from a judge, right? Well, it's worse for a little girl to see it in a locker room.” ([38:52])
• Promise for next hour: “The rest of that dissent.”

8. Healthcare Fraud in Los Angeles

• William Lajeunesse (Fox News) reports: Investigative story about massive Medicare fraud—out-of-state (elderly) doctors’ credentials used by hundreds of fraudulent providers to bill over $600 million.
  • Armstrong: “The amount of your taxpayer dollars being stolen is incalculable... 335 providers billed Medicare $600 million over five years using [one] physician number.” ([44:20])
  • Michael: “Could AI catch anomalies like this... some out of state doctor... is billing this many millions?” ([46:31])
• Commentary on the lack of interest from progressive circles and media in fighting government waste:
  • Michael: “I don't understand why progressives don't care more about this. You're the ones that like all these do-good programs. Don't you actually want to do good?” ([48:10])
  • Armstrong: “Limited money for your purposes.” ([48:24])

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Notable Quotes Highlight

• “If you forbid people from speaking honestly about this... the only people going to be talking about it are the far right and then they will gain power. You don't want that. Be honest.” — Jack Armstrong ([05:00])
• “It's extremely uncomfortable for the left, and the media is the left.” — Jack Armstrong ([15:43])
• “This is not a snowball fight. This is an attempt to bring the ovens to the Jews instead of the Nazis who brought the Jews to the ovens.” — Rabbi Steve Lader ([10:59])
• “You may think that swinging dicks shouldn't appear in a judicial opinion, you're not wrong.” — Justice Van Dyke, quoted by Jack Armstrong ([38:08])
• “You gotta pay us back for everything you destroyed before we'll even consider opening the Strait of Hormuz.” — Michael, paraphrasing Iranian demands ([34:13])
• “I don't understand why progressives don't care more about this... Don't you actually want to do good?” — Michael, on healthcare fraud and waste ([48:10])

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Timestamps for Key Segments

| Segment/topic | Timestamp | |---------------------------------------------|-------------| | Terror/Antisemitic Attacks & Media Reaction | 03:53–15:43 | | Quotes from Rabbis & Sen. Slotkin | 10:59–12:44 | | Critique of Multiculturalism | 13:01–14:05 | | Media Coverage Rant | 15:25–15:54 | | Bigfoot Sightings Comic Relief | 20:17–23:24 | | Iran Crisis Analysis | 26:58–35:50 | | Judicial Dissent Highlight | 37:32–39:16 | | LA Healthcare Fraud Report | 43:12–48:32 |

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Memorable Moments

• The blunt realism and dark humor in the segment about the FBI’s “rendered him no longer alive” euphemism for neutralizing a shooter.
• Armstrong’s deadpan Bigfoot commentary: “So many freaking progressives, says Bigfoot. He says. Anyway...”
• The hosts’ open frustration with political and media avoidance of uncomfortable truths (especially regarding antisemitism and government accountability).
• The reading of the explicit judicial dissent, drawing gasps and wry reflection from both hosts.

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Episode Takeaways

• Armstrong and Getty shine in their critique of sanitized language, political correctness, and lack of accountability, maintaining both compassion and their signature biting edge.
• Discussions alternate between gravity and comic relief, providing depth and accessibility.
• The episode is built on the premise that honest discussion is critical, regardless of ideological discomfort—whether about terrorism, public accountability, judicial propriety, or even cryptids.

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[Joe Getty]

broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

[Jack Armstrong]

Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong, strong and giddy. More than 100 kids attend a school inside that synagogue. They were unhurt and safely escorted out

[William Lajeunesse]

as security repelled the attacker. The attacker was then killed.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's still unknown why the synagogue was targeted.

[Michael]

A lot of that theme yesterday where you had guys with Muslim names who then we later find out often trained with ISIS or in contact with him shooting Jewish people and yelling Allah Akbar and then the media going out of its way to say still no idea what the reason was for this. Maybe it's.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, it was probably a robbery or

[Michael]

a divorce dispute or something.

[Jack Armstrong]

Exactly. Yeah. Custody thing. Yeah. That is obscene. And you know, not to get off track on this theme because we have a lot of audio to play in some facts to, to give you. But when we were talking about immigration, rampant immigration in Europe especially and in the US for matter, and I was talking about how, look, if you forbid, you in the left and the center left, if you forbid people from speaking honestly about this, you bully them. If they try to say fundamentalist Muslims are trying to kill Jews in America and other Americans too, if they can. If you forbid that being said in polite company, the only people going to be talking about it are the far right and then they will gain power. You don't want that. Be honest. Fundamentalist Muslims are seeking to kill as many Jews as possible in the United

[Michael]

States right now four or five times in the last week.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. Yeah. So Jackie Heinrich lays out the

[Michael]

twice yesterday within a couple of hours and then I'm watching the evening newscast and they dance around. What is going on? That seems like a pretty big story. Wow. We have ISIS inspired or members of ISIS trying to kill Jews all across the country. Seems like a really big news story, but they didn't portray it that way.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right. This is Jackie Heinrich, clip 40. We'll start with the Old Dominion shooting in Virginia.

[News Reporter]

President was asked about both shootings today. One at the synagogue in Michigan, the other at Old Dominion University in Virginia. He said both were tragic. So far, only one's been confirmed by the FBI as an act of terrorism. Officials said lives were saved when ROTC students jumped in and subdued the shooter who died.

[Jack Armstrong]

The term terrorism has always been nearly useless. Now it's completely useless. If. If somebody like, had a phone call with ISIS five years ago, they confirm, yes, this is terrorism. If it's somebody who just decides, I'm going to kill Jews in the name of Allah, it's not terrorism because it's an individual or.

[Michael]

What is that?

[Jack Armstrong]

What does it even mean? It doesn't mean anything.

[Michael]

By the way, the scumbag shooter there at that college, the college students got that guy down and killed him somehow.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, no, no, not quite right, Jack. Let's listen to Dominique evans of the FBI. Clip 46.

[News Reporter]

There were students that were in that room that subdued him and rendered him no longer alive.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't know how else to say

[News Reporter]

it, but they basically are able to terminate the threat.

[Michael]

We heard that on the news yesterday. My son and I both were like, rendered him not alive.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, we. We've got a word for that.

[Michael]

Beat him to death.

[Jack Armstrong]

We got a couple of them.

[Michael]

Yeah, well, first choked him out or something.

[Jack Armstrong]

I get Ms. Evans of the FBI's hesitance to say that because it sounds so bad, but God bless those ROTC students. They're heroes. They've learned what they were supposed to learn. They took decisive action. They neutralized the threat. Termin.

[Michael]

Oh, and if a guy is just killed somebody in front of you in a. In a fight, neutralizing the threats, almost gonna have to include killing him.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right? Right. Or damn near, anyway. Well done there. Mohammed Baylor Jalo opened fire in a university classroom in the morning. He shouted Aloha Akbar before opening fire.

[Michael]

Still no information as to the motive.

[Jack Armstrong]

Anyway, he pleaded guilty in 2016 and was sentenced to 11 years in prison for helping an overseas ISIS terrorist plot attacks on the US it could not be immediately determined why he was released from federal custody in 2024, though defendants are often freed before the duration of Their term. So this guy was a convicted ISIS would be terrorist. At one point he enlisted in the Virginia Army National Guard, quote, out of a patriotic desire to give back to his adopted country. All right, that's his. I think that's his lawyers talking. Anyway, he's dead, but his movement certainly is not. And then you've got the, as Jack has pointed out, terrible attack on the synagogue in the Detroit area, which could have been one of those nightmarish attacks that people just refer to with one word for the rest of our lives.

[Michael]

Yeah. Was it the senator or the governor there in Michigan who said this was very close to another Sandy Hook, which is a one word. You know, it could have been that. It's just I was. I couldn't take my nap yesterday because I was afraid it was. Because I remember when Sandy Hook happened, there was no news for a while. Then all of a sudden there was a news. Whatever it was. We got 30 dead kids here because the fact that the guy had driven the truck in there and shots were fired and then nothing was said for a very long time, I thought, I hope they're not keeping this awful news from everybody. Turned out they had killed him right away. Thank God they were trying to put out the fire that started and get the kids out of there. 3, 4 and 5 year olds, place full of little kids.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Michael]

And that guy went in there to murder as many little Jewish kids as he could. Obviously, that's what he was up to.

[Jack Armstrong]

Clip 50 Alexis McAdams.

[News Reporter]

Investigators say this man drove into the synagogue in West Bloomfield, Michigan, got through the wall and then just drove right down the hallway. Brett. Until an armed security guard stepped in and stopped him. So the guard opened fire. Then we're told there was smoke and flames coming from the truck after a possible explosion. According to police, Temple Israel thanking those security guards who they call heroes, saying it was the victim of a terrorist gunman who was confronted and neut by our security personnel. The temple says their teachers followed their training and kept their kids safe and calm.

[Jack Armstrong]

Police are stepping up their presence around any Jewish community centers. Mosques. Not mosques, temples, you know, everything. Because of the rampant anti Semitism, particularly from Muslims.

[Michael]

Here's Rabbi, is the coverage anti Semitism or is the coverage you don't want to offend Muslims because you feel like it's, you know, criticizing minorities or something?

[Jack Armstrong]

Little both. Little both, I'd say. Yeah. Because the progressive left has decided Israel are the bad guys and they can't possibly call fouls on the quote, unquote, other side. 54, Michael, is Rabbi Steve Lader in LA.

[Michael]

This is a wake up call not only for the local community, but for our entire nation. This is not a snowball fight. This is an attempt to bring the ovens to the Jews instead of the Nazis who brought the Jews to the ovens.

[Jack Armstrong]

And this is Rabbi Jennifer Kaluzny in Michigan. 56. Please, Michael.

[News Reporter]

My God, I never thought I'd be standing here looking at my temple, surrounded by SWAT and FBI and going out into the parking lot and grabbing babies to bring them to their parents. Never.

[Jack Armstrong]

And then finally, or at Least for now, 57 is Senator Alyssa Slotkin of Michigan, who with the Democratic governor to their credit, have come out and Jack, you heard it. I've just read it characterized. They're calling this what it is, correct?

[Michael]

Yeah, certainly seem to be Senator Alyssa Slotkin here.

[News Reporter]

And I think it's just important to be clear, as the governor said, that whether antisemitism is coming from the left or the right, whether it's coming from some group that you like or don't like, you have a responsibility to call it out. Because when you don't, it gives permission for people to climb that escalation, that ladder of escalation that goes from saying hateful things online to saying them in person to graffiti, to ultimately violence. And the Jewish community suffers 10 times the number of hate crimes than any other community in this country. So it is an epidemic. And until we push back on that permission, we're going to see incidents like this continue to proliferate.

[Michael]

Good on the Democratic senator of Michigan.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well said, Alyssa. Well said.

[Michael]

And that's a fairly brave thing to say politically and physically in the state she lives in.

[Jack Armstrong]

Multiculturalism is a terrible idea except in certain circumstances where the authorities are heavy handed in enforcing commonly held morals.

[William Lajeunesse]

God.

[Michael]

I saw a video yesterday. I didn't confirm it and I'll explain

[Jack Armstrong]

what I meant in a second, but go ahead.

[Michael]

I didn't confirm this video I saw yesterday, but I'll bet it's true. They showed a neighborhood of Dearborn, Michigan, where every woman walking down the street was wearing the Beekeeper outfit in the United States of America.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Michael]

You have women that are subdued to the point they're only allowed to show their eyeballs. And we put up with that and act like that's. Well, it's just multiculturalism. It's just accepting other cultures, Women of America, Democratic women, educated white Democrat women. You're okay with that under the umbrella of multiculturalism, that women aren't allowed, you know, women who are Dressed like that have basically no say in their marriage whatsoever. You know that. That goes with the package of having to dress like that.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. They're virtual slaves. Yeah. I probably take me too long to find it. But the absolutely perfect tweet about the conflict with Iran, how women who are marching around dressed as handmaidens a couple of years ago are now cursing the US for taking on a leader who actually makes women do that. It's just ridiculous. Anyway, my. My comment about multiculturalism, what Alyssa Slotkin was saying, and she didn't exactly lay it out straight, was, look, you're a Muslim. You're in one of these Muslim communities. You go to a mosque and you hear people talking about, Jews are the devil, Jews are dogs, Jews should die, Israel should be wiped off the map. And then it gets a little more intense and more intense, and then they start talking about doing something in the United States. She was saying, you got to call it out. You've got to be part of the solution. Otherwise, dot, dot, dot. What is that otherwise? I ask our Muslim friends, and we have Muslim friends, if it becomes undeniable that your quote, unquote communities or whatever are sheltering and kind of fertile soil for this sort of attack, how do you think that's going to end?

[Michael]

The lack of coverage on the. On what happened this week or yesterday just was unbelievable to me. I flipped on MSNBC this morning. I watched 15 minutes. I'm sure they got to it eventually, but I watched 15 minutes before they even mentioned the story. They didn't even mention it as a tease.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right. It's extremely uncomfortable for the left, and the media is the left. Wow.

[Michael]

You got the beat down in San Jose. You got the two things. Yesterday, you got the ISIS guys throwing the bombs in New York.

[Jack Armstrong]

They're gonna find out the shooting of our consulate in Canada was related to. I mean, it's almost certain.

[Michael]

All in a week, in one week. That is really something. We never did get to our Bigfoot story. I feel like we need that. Coming up next, it's legit if you're

[Jack Armstrong]

in Ohio and do not leave your home. Lock your doors, lock your windows. Jam something up your chimney so he can't come down your chimney. Good Lord, is that a thing?

[Michael]

All right, so stay tuned.

[Joe Getty]

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[Michael]

coming up of where things stand. The war in Iran from all your big news sources that's pretty damned interesting in a lot of different ways. So I hope you can stick around for that. We'll get to that in about 10 minutes or so.

[Jack Armstrong]

All right, Michael, I've sent you a secret message via text. I need you to look at that

[Michael]

secret message coming up.

[Jack Armstrong]

And this is perhaps not a very good tease, but my favorite judicial dissent in American history. It includes a phrase that you've never heard in any sort of judicial dissent, ascent agreement, disagreement, or even a friend of the court brief. Stay with us. First, though, are you at risk? Bigfoot sightings in northeast Ohio have skyrocketed. Six reported big. You're sighing.

[Michael]

I don't know what's going on. When Joe Getty starts reporting Bigfoot sightings, I love it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Six reported Bigfoot sightings in Northeast Ohio within four days. Spark a cryptid flash. Speculation. I read the word cryptid three times and thought I was having a stroke or it was a misprint or something. Apparently that is a term for like your wacky space aliens or Bigfoot or whatever, fairies, you know, podcast. It's a cryptid podcast.

[Michael]

Okay, I don't, I don't know about

[Jack Armstrong]

that, but a series of social media posts from a cryptid focused podcast has ignited speculation about widespread Bigfoot sightings in Northeast Ohio.

[Michael]

Ohio. Bigfoot usually lives in the northwest, your Oregon, Washington area.

[Jack Armstrong]

He got out, can't stand the politics, moved to Ohio. Want to go in a nice purple state where people got along with each other. So many freaking progressives, says Bigfoot. He says. Anyway, the Bigfoot Society, a podcast online

[Michael]

community, maybe Bigfoot's rich and like the CEO of Starbucks because of that new millionaire tax, is that I'm out, right? All that, all the swag you see with Bigfoot doing that walking pose, he gets a cut of that.

[Jack Armstrong]

He Gets a cut of all of it.

[Michael]

Sure.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right. Yeah. So the Bigfoot Society says it's received six separate reports between March 6 and March 10 southeast of Cleveland. We've been there. Let's see which is a group is. The group describes the cluster of reports as a flap. A term used in cryptozoology for multiple sightings in a short time span.

[Michael]

We've got a. I'm glad you invented a word for something that doesn't exist.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'll thank you to pipe down, sir. We the northeast Ohio is under code red Bigfoot threat. Here are your six reported encounters. March 6th. A witness described a brown approximately 9 foot tall figure seen outdoors 9ft. The next day.

[Michael]

The next day. One day later.

[Jack Armstrong]

A reported brown 8 foot tall figure along with alleged footprints and deep grunts.

[Michael]

He shrunk.

[Jack Armstrong]

March 9th. A reported black 8 foot tall figure. No reason to bring race into it. March 9, separate account of a blackish 10 foot tall figure accompanied by a heavy musky odor. You now he's not growing with your silly jokes. People see a figure that is 8 to 10ft tall, think holy f. How big is that thing?

[Michael]

And they come up with different numbers and musky.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, musky. Heavy musky odor. Oh you know what? We've had a great celebrity death. This guy passed away. Michael, do you have that clip?

[Michael]

Keep that chicken.

[Jack Armstrong]

That news anchor passed away.

[Michael]

That's our celebrity death. Way to honor him.

[Jack Armstrong]

Great man, a fine news anchor and he will be dearly missed.

[Michael]

This is one of your all time great segments.

[Jack Armstrong]

My judicial dissent is coming up next half hour. Don't miss it.

[Joe Getty]

Armstrong and Getty.

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[Jack Armstrong]

If you think gas prices are high now, give the ayatollah a nuclear weapon to terrorize the region to threaten the streets of Hormuz. He will control gas prices forever. That regime would if they had a nuclear capability.

[Michael]

That's Lindsey Graham making the argument that them having a nuclear weapon would be worse than temporarily high gas prices. I would agree Trump made that point yesterday.

[Jack Armstrong]

But they're sure using their current control of the strait to play hardball. Yeah.

[Michael]

Which we're about to hear more about. So I mentioned this earlier, the one News, one of the many newsletters I read every single day. Mark Halperin writing that his sources, White House, Pentagon, are sounding nervous for the first time, which made him think, oh, maybe things aren't going to turn out as rosy as we had hoped. And yeah, this whole straight A Hormuz thing is a difficult situation. So going through a whole bunch of different reporting from different places on this different angles. Associated Press this is the very latest. Iran launched multiple attacks early today on Gulf Arab states. Remember when they had vowed not to talk attack them anymore, including dozens of drones at Saudi Arabia following warnings from its new supreme leader about hosting American bases. All right, Weird Beard Jr. So you're going to say to Saudi Arabia, how dare you have American military bases there? We're going to attack you. They also attacked Oman, where two people were killed in drone strikes. So you got these Gulf Arab states being attacked, people dying, having to defend themselves. I don't know how long they're going to put up with that before they join in our fight.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow. We're going to beat down all of our neighbors till you submit to us. Good luck with that.

[Michael]

I thought this was a damn interesting story from the New York Times back in the 2000s and maybe other times also, but back in the 2000s anyway, we had looked into the whole what if we attack Iran? No, we can't because of the straight Hormuz situation. They quote this Air Force lieutenant general who was tasked with studying this very situation in the Bush administration. Military approaches to Iranian aggression, including a scenario in which Iran attacked shipping in the Straight. His team concluded in the 2000s that while the United States could use advanced sensors and precision strikes to mitigate Iranian attacks, they could not stop them completely. The shipping lanes are too narrow and the vessels are too vulnerable to a mix of rockets, missiles and swarms of small craft. The only way militarily to guarantee the waterway is open to move from mitigation to full control of the strait would be to take and hold the Iranian territory boarding strait. It would require a large number of ground forces. Short of that, the only lasting solution to the strait is A diplomatic one. That's what they determined in the 2000s. There's no military answer unless you're like going to have a full on ground invasion. So the diplomatic way is the only way you get the straight opened.

[Jack Armstrong]

And I would say in the defense of the United States, number one. Yeah, that is incredibly interesting from a military point of view. And the second thing is, all right, let's give it a good two and a half decades of trying every diplomatic route we can think of, every technique, every lever, every threat, every promise, and it fails. So, oh boy.

[Michael]

Yeah, that's why I wanted that clip from Lindsey Graham, because none of that to me is an argument that we shouldn't have done this because them getting a nuke would be worse. And you had the best shot ever at taking out the Supreme Leader and you know, and stopping their nuclear program and all that. But that's damned interesting that we'd studied it before and thought, man, there's just no way you can keep that straight open.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, Mike Lyons was hinting at that. Not hinting at it. He was talking about it a little bit last time we talked to him. There are just so many threats and it's such a narrow waterway.

[Michael]

Different story, Wall Street Journal. Israeli officials themselves now assess that Iran's ruling regime is unlikely to fall in the immediate future as Tehran's battered rulers remain in control and conditions on the ground aren't yet ripe for a popular uprising. People familiar with the matter said to the Wall Street Journal. Nearly two weeks into the war, Iran's military and political leadership appear functional and responsive to events, while its domestic opponents have been cowed by a heavy security presence. That's kind of interesting. Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

They saw 30,000 of their friends and neighbors and family members get gunned down in the streets. They're staying in their homes.

[Michael]

Netanyahu said yesterday. I can't tell you with certainty that the Iranian people will bring down the regime. So that's where we are there. Washington Post, David Ignatius on that same theme. The regime survives. It has taken America's best punch. It is still standing. Tiers of senior military, intelligence and political leaders are dead, but they've been replaced by others. There's no sign yet of a popular uprising. The cadres of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps hides among the rubble, but they haven't been eliminated. So that's where we are. I gotta believe the Trump administration, you know, he said, now's your chance. Might be the only chance you ever have. He said that in the middle of the night, hours after we killed The Supreme Leader. This might be your one chance in a generation to take over the government. There's been no sign of that two weeks in, and maybe for good reason.

[Jack Armstrong]

Terrible run of luck for the Iranian people.

[Michael]

No kidding.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, they just. They went for it just a little early.

[Michael]

This re. This next one from cnn. I don't know if this one's true or not. The Pentagon and National Security Council significantly underestimated Iran's willingness to close the Strait of Hormuz in response to US Military strikes. While planning the ongoing operations, the security team of Trump failed to fully account for the potential consequences. Blah, blah, blah, blah. I don't know if I believe that or not. Who knows? You could just have disgruntled. Disgruntled people in the White House saying that, or CNN could be making it up.

[Jack Armstrong]

So I don't.

[Michael]

I don't know that one.

[Jack Armstrong]

I've read some commentators who I think really highly of say that they are surprised that Iran was willing to do that, given the damage it does to them and their oil shipments. And just. It's such a. Well, I'm gonna pull the pin on this grenade. Ish move. But that brings us back to the fact that Trump's a businessman and he doesn't get religious fundamentalism.

[Michael]

Well, there's also the fact that according to the Wall Street Journal, Iran is shipping more oil out now than they were before the war started.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right.

[Michael]

So the straits not closed for them. And then finally this one, because I find it almost funny, from the Wall Street Journal, Arab diplomats trying to find a diplomatic path out of the war now being waged by the US And Israel, emboldened by its ability to rattle the global economy by closing the Strait of Hormuz, have laid out their preconditions for any return to talks. You wouldn't think when you're getting pummeled the way you're getting pummeled that you would be laying out your preconditions. At this point, Iran is demanding that the airstrike stop before it entertains ceasefire discussions, wants firm guarantees that it won't be attacked again if it agrees to stop the fight. Listen to this part. It also wants reparations for damages and is hoping to get US Forces to disengage from the region.

[Jack Armstrong]

Sounds good.

[Michael]

You got to pay us back for everything you destroyed before we'll even consider opening the straight at Hormuz. The demands are part of a broader public expression of confidence, whether real or feigned, in recent days. According to the Wall Street Journal, starting a war is easy. But ending it won't happen. Within a few weeks, top national security official said on social media, we will not let you off until you accept your mistake and pay the price for it. That's what Iran is saying to us. We will not let you off the hook unless you accept your mistake and pay for it. So do you think that is real or feigned, as the Wall Street Journal put it? They might think they got. They might think they got the world by the short hairs.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, what other cards are they gonna play? Capitulating, I suppose, is always a card you can play. But if they're not gonna give in. Wow, this is an odd regime in a desperate situation.

[Michael]

That's a pretty bold thing to say, though. That's like Hitler from his bunker in the. You know, april 45. I'll give you one last chance to submit. This is my last warning.

[Jack Armstrong]

You gotta withdraw back to France. You gotta rebuild my house. The one up in the mountains. I really liked it. Yeah. No, no, no. Wow. Where does this one end?

[Michael]

They will not even entertain talks until we stop the airstrikes, guarantee that we won't attack again and agree to pay reparations for the damage done.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay.

[Michael]

That's quite the starting bargaining position.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay, on air meeting. Do you have more on this? No, well, there's plenty more, but yeah, there's lots. Monday.

[Michael]

Yeah, I don't. I wasn't thinking of doing more now.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right, exactly. Oh, we gotta tell you about rough greens. Then we're gonna have an on air meeting right after that. You're gonna see the. The nuts and bolts, folks, the guts. Right in front of you.

[Michael]

An on air meeting. Is this gonna be a job performance evaluation? That's what it is.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'm worried about.

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[William Lajeunesse]

Woof.

[Jack Armstrong]

All right, so I was just reminded we've got the fabulous stuff on health care fraud, specifically in la. Thought maybe we could do that while we're still on the mighty KABC Los Angeles. Or we could do it next hour.

[Michael]

I don't know.

[Jack Armstrong]

But I can pay off my favorite judicial dissent of all time and take a break and come back and do healthcare fraud.

[Michael]

Okay. What do you think?

[Jack Armstrong]

Sure, why not? Okay, here it is. I'm sorry, I've got to scroll back to the correct page. This is a case in front of the 9th Circuit Court where they refused for the whole circuit to hear this case. And I'll explain what the case is in a second. This is a dissent from Justice Van Dyke, who thinks the whole court should have heard the case because it's important and he hates the decision. Folks, brace yourself. This is from the record of the ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the United States of America. Earth. This is a case about swinging dicks. The Christian owners of Olympus Spa, a traditional Korean women only nude spa, understandably, don't want them in their spa. Their female employees and female clients don't want them in their spa either. But Washington State insists on them, and so does the 9th. So now does the 9th Circuit. You may think that swinging dicks shouldn't appear in a judicial opinion, you're not wrong. But as much as you might understandably be shocked and displeased to merely encounter that phrase in this opinion, I hope we can all agree that it is far more jarring for the unsuspected and exposed women at Olympus Spa, some as young as 13 years old, to be visually assaulted by the same thing.

[Michael]

That was a good little trick there to shock you and think, wow, did you need to say that to make the point?

[William Lajeunesse]

Yeah.

[Michael]

It is kind of bad to see this from a judge, right? Well, it's worse for a little girl to see it in a locker room.

[Jack Armstrong]

This guy brings it. That's pretty. Knocks it out of the park. The rest of that descent. Next hour. Let's take a break.

[Michael]

Are you gonna be dropping more SDs?

[Jack Armstrong]

I'll see if I can find an excuse. Would you like me to feel like

[Michael]

I don't need to hear that anymore.

[Jack Armstrong]

Fair enough, fair enough. I'll try to restrain myself. Healthcare fraud or hear it all right, the the iceberg. We're seeing more than the tip now. Unfortunate reference the extent of health care fraud America is far bigger than anybody even imagined. Details Next.

[Michael]

See, the problem is we have a locker room here where we all change into our Armstrong and Getty uniforms before the show and we're all naked together in a room.

[Jack Armstrong]

Stay tuned and particularly Armstrong and Getty.

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[William Lajeunesse]

i'm looking for Dr. Faustina. This is his address of record with the medical board. He doesn't work here. He doesn't work here. He is your medical director, however, isn't that correct? He's not. Since when?

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't know.

[William Lajeunesse]

In December, New York Congresswoman Claudia Tenney asked the Trump administration to investigate health care fraud in la.

[Michael]

The money's being sucked out of the

[Jack Armstrong]

system by these fraudsters.

[William Lajeunesse]

Specifically, she asked how a single physician living out of state helped providers bill taxpayers for $600 million.

[Michael]

Wow, that's a big number.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Michael]

Out of state physician.

[Jack Armstrong]

Minnesota was just Minnesota. The amount of fraud going on, the amount of your taxpayer dollars being stolen is incalculable. That's William lajeuness. Shout out William, Great job as always. His report goes on. Oh, I should tell you, Dr. Faustino is apparently blameless in all of this. They used these scammers, used his name. He's an elderly fellow who until recently barely saw any patients. Now I don't think he sees any.

[William Lajeunesse]

Somehow you are responsible for 29,000 patients. And here's the billing information that physician, 87 year old Gilbert Faustina. These home health care agencies, but they're Using your number.

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[William Lajeunesse]

Faustina lives in Las Vegas, but we met him at this apartment in Los Angeles.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'm not seeing anybody now. Last month, I saw about 10 or 15 charts when I would visit, but that's one day a week.

[William Lajeunesse]

Yet records suggest he filed 76,000 claims.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't do the billing. I've never billed Medicare for any of these patients.

[William Lajeunesse]

How many charts and so forth can you go through to approve their care? Oh, 15 or 20. But these documents suggest that you're seeing thousands of people. Well, the document is wrong.

[Michael]

Yeah. Okay, so clearly he's. Yeah, he didn't do anything. So it's like. It's like when people take some dead guy's Social Security number and start getting benefits.

[Jack Armstrong]

Precisely. Yeah, Exactly. Next clip.

[William Lajeunesse]

Federal documents show 335 providers billed Medicare 600 million over five years using Faustina's physician number. Yet he claims only to have contracted with three companies in this building at this address. I have millions of dollars of health care provided at this location at both Highlight and Aries. And on call, there's more than 900 patients. And $17 million has been billed out of this location. Records also link Faustina to 18 hospice providers.

[Jack Armstrong]

I am not associated with any Hospice.

[William Lajeunesse]

And 3,000 claims.

[Michael]

I'm not associated with the claim at all.

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[Jack Armstrong]

I should have explained. It cuts back and forth with William trying to get somebody in that little office building to answer his questions through the door. And of course, no, nobody's here. Nobody can answer your question. You. You folks deal with 19, 000 patients in this facility. He's looking at this little building.

[Michael]

Kind of hope AI can. Can do something about this. I don't. I get that a lot of your organizations don't care about your taxpayer money, but I assume they don't actually want it stolen.

[Jack Armstrong]

The agencies themselves.

[Michael]

Yeah. They just don't take the time to pay attention to this. Could AI catch anomalies like this where AI would figure out? There's no way some out of state doctor, who we have here is 87 years old, is billing this many millions of dollars worth of blah, blah, blah.

[William Lajeunesse]

Well.

[Jack Armstrong]

Or the fact. And there were so, so many numbers in that last clip. It probably went by you. There were 335 different scammers using him as the doctor of record.

[Michael]

Wow. How could you not catch that?

[Jack Armstrong]

How could you have a system that wouldn't catch that? Final clip. Michael.

[William Lajeunesse]

So what's going on? Hospice in suite 204. We visited several hospices billing under Faustina's Medicare number. Many look more like mail drops than medical offices. My name is William lajeuness, and I'm with Fox News. We also spoke to one company that provides doctors and nurses to home health care agencies.

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[News Reporter]

We are not sure what happened as well. You're not sure what happened if there

[William Lajeunesse]

is fraud, Faustina says he's not getting a cut. So you think somebody's probably committing fraud on your behalf? Absolutely. Not on my behalf. On their behalf.

[Michael]

Good point.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. Yeah. Unbelievable.

[Michael]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

How.

[Michael]

How often does this happen in how many states for how many years? Oh, God, it's depressing.

[Jack Armstrong]

And what does it say about human beings and our divided politics these days that it's always, virtually always, conservative outlets that have these investigations, no interest from

[Michael]

anybody else to try to figure out the taxpayer money is wasted. As I said earlier, and I've said a million. I don't understand why progressives don't care more about this. You're the ones that like all these do good programs. Don't you actually want to do good?

[Jack Armstrong]

Right.

[Michael]

And the money's being stolen.

[Jack Armstrong]

Limited money for your purposes.

[Michael]

Or you could actually help people if that's your. You know, what's driving this. Right?

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. It's funny. I didn't even think of that. Oh, sincerity. Oh, right.

[Michael]

I assume you want to help the homeless or the sick or the downtrodden or whatever. The money's not getting to them. So why aren't you more interested than me? I only care about my taxpayer money because I'm not that worried about the downtrodden. Let the downtrodden figure it out on their own.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow, That's.

[Michael]

That's.

[Jack Armstrong]

Stop being downtrodden. That's not a good look.

[Michael]

Get trodden or uptrodden. I don't know what the opposite is.

[Jack Armstrong]

Next hour, much more of the Essing d judicial dissent that I shared the opening with with you for a minute before this. Now.

[Michael]

And we gotta continue that thing. And we got clips of the week and we got lots of frivolity because the last hour, we usually start drinking on a Friday. We'll get the daiquiri machine going, and that'll be fun. If you missed a segment, get the podcast. Armstrong and Getty on demand.

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Armstrong and Getty.

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