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George
Broadcasting live.
Joe
From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at.
George
The George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Joe
Armstrong and Getty. And now he.
Jack
Wonder if I could get a note from my doctor that says Jack's not supposed to work in temperatures less than 40 degrees.
Joe
He has poor circulation.
Jack
Live from Studio C. See, senor. A dimly lit room deep within the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound. And on this Tuesday, we're under the tutelage of our general manager.
Joe
I don't know. Who do you want to go with today? Muhammad Al Jelani, the guy everybody's looking at in Syria. Daniel Penny. Quit it. Thank God.
Jack
Yeah, that's a.
Joe
On that one. You know, I'm. We're going to talk about the, the. The shooter, Maniac punk, eventually, but I don't want to give these guys name names. I don't want to make them famous.
Jack
No, I don't either.
Joe
Everybody's talking about this guy's name, but he should not be a household name. His victim, perhaps should be.
Jack
Yeah, yeah. Why. Why memorize the names these people? I just do not. I've never understood that.
Joe
Well, we're in the media, so kind of, you know, as we're. I disagree.
Jack
I disagree. I think the media should specifically not say their names.
Joe
Yeah, I know. We've had this discussion many times. Yeah, yeah. Delusional piece of crap. That's his name. It just popped into my head.
Jack
Here's an angle I haven't heard anybody brought up. Bring up. And you might be the person that can answer it. I know we have a number of listeners who are super into the whole protecting your rights against the state sort of thing. And this, in this particular thing, the way it goes with the cops. And I'm glad the guy's caught. He says he's either crazy or a scum, evil scumbag or a combination of the two. But if I'm sitting in a McDonald's and the cops walk up and say, hey, were you in New York last week? Why wouldn't I Say, none of your business.
Joe
Go ahead. But.
Jack
But what. What happens if I do what that guy had said? I'm not telling you. And if they just said, I want to see your id, I'm not giving it to you. I'm eating. I want to eat my cheeseburger. So what would have happened at that point?
Joe
Well, it depends on the circumstance. If it was that circumstance, they would have probably just cuffed him or something.
Jack
Because of what?
Joe
Suspicion of whatever. Weapons offenses or something. You can, you know, probable causes. Because probably I will. Because probably I wanted a handcuff.
Jack
Which, yeah, makes me a little uncomfortable. I mean, in this case, obviously the guy needed to be got. But the idea of the cops walking up and saying and questioning you about where you been and checking your ID while you're eating your burger. Maybe it's because I'm reading so much about Libya and Iraq and, you know, the way those kind of governments act. I know that that's where you can get.
Joe
Yeah, I just. Although I'm not sure I understand where you're coming from. The guy murdered somebody in cold blood. The cops were pretty sure they had him and just said, you've been in New York lately to see how he'd react. And he reacted by his eyes getting wide and he sat there silently shaking.
Jack
So they don't have to get a.
Joe
Warrant or anything to say, how you doing? No, no to no. And you don't have to answer.
Jack
No. They don't have to get a warrant to. To cuff him or anything like that. They could just think that he's a guy. That's that. That's the way it works.
Joe
Oh, yeah. Yeah. You can arrest somebody on suspicion of anything.
Jack
If you've ever dealt with this experience it. On either end of it. Give us a text to 916. No, no, it's not. It's 41 5. I almost gave my home phone number. That'd be a terrible idea.
Joe
That a bit odd.
Jack
415-295-Kftc. Here's the other question I have. If he. First of all, I'm not sure if he had been sitting at my McDonald's that I would have recognized him. I don't know if I would have or not. I feel like I see 10 guys that look like that in my college town every single day.
Joe
I was just reading a really interesting piece. Maybe you can squeeze it in later. About. There's like a range of ability to identify faces from people who are called super recognizers. I think it is you. They could pass a stranger and Then four weeks later pass them again and think, I saw that guy on the street. And then there's those of us who struggle, like, I know, I know this person. I can't figure out who they are. But science has looked into this. Yeah, this is huge. It's almost like musical talent. Really?
Jack
I didn't know that. Is it similar to remembering people's names? Similar sort of thing?
Joe
Probably, yeah.
Jack
I've always assumed. I don't remember people's names out of like self centeredness. I figure I don't need to know who you are, so I don't remember it. Maybe it's the same with faces.
Joe
My pompous disdain for humanity.
Jack
Right, same with faces. I think I don't care who you are, so I'm not putting this in my memory banks.
Joe
Whereas some of you're ugly, by the way.
Jack
Some of you who care about humanity might remember their faces. But.
Joe
So there's. It could be both, but I think you may have an excuse.
Jack
So there's the. I'm not sure if he'd been sitting in my McDonald's, I would even thought twice about it. So there's that. And then how come no family or friends reached out to the cops? I mean, they talked to his parents who were horrified. He'd been. They didn't know where he'd been for a while. They. He'd been out of touch and like, how did they not look at the TV and say, oh my God, that's him, and call the police?
Joe
That's a good question. That might come out someday. They might have been trying to reach him. Who knows? I don't know.
Jack
This story reminds me of the. In my little burg in, in. In California, we had a wannabe serial killer who killed a couple of people a couple years ago. Very similar story. Kind of a star student athlete. Everybody liked him, parents lost track of him for a little wit, goes on a murdering spree and everybody's like, what? That's impossible. So just wonder if. And that guy's brain broke somehow. I wonder if this guy's brain broke.
Joe
No, I doubt it. Judging from what I've seen and heard, it's possible, I think. But this guy seems much more like. Because I know the guy you're talking about, the knife murderer guy. And he was had, you know, the standard early 20s, onset of psychosis, his serious mental illness. This guy is different. And it finally occurred to me how to describe this, because I'm always talking about how ideology can trump intelligence and ideology squashes wisdom. It just makes Them, shut up. It just, it bullies them and they no longer can exert their control. It's like being in love. It's got to be. When you get so swept up in ideological fervor, you start doing things you'd never do, you start ignoring your better judgment, you get swept away into these idiotic ideas. I've got some examples of them later. But yeah, this guy absolutely stinks of over educated progressive upper cruster who got swept up in ideology. He's the modern incarnation of Patty Hearst or whatever other would be. Brave, revolutionary. Their prep school spawned this time all.
Jack
Of those kids at Columbia last year.
Joe
Exactly. All the pro Hamas kafiya wearing dip asses on college campuses.
Jack
Exactly. That's actually what I thought of maybe leading the show with was yet another over educated liberal white kid.
Joe
Although there are plenty of liberal brown and black kids who are also freaking lunatics. Progressive.
Jack
But there's something extra to it because there's that whole I'm speaking on behalf of the downtrodden thing that happens with the white over educated people and a.
Joe
Desperation to allay your feelings of white guilt. So that's an extra energy there. Yeah, you're right.
Jack
To find this quote that I grabbed the other day that fits in with what you're saying. I'll find it somewhere. It was a Dostoevsky quote, but it's about, you know, everybody has to believe in some sort of ideology and then they go way too far with it. Can go way too far with it. And it's happened, you know, with all religions and, and, but that, that's what's going on with a lot of this Fight the Man. Whether it's climate change or trans or whatever it is, you latch onto it and it makes you crazy. Like you were just saying. I mean, you take it to a I'm a crusader level.
Katie
Right, right.
Joe
And there are many sayings throughout history about being, you know, beware of your passions or you know, moderation, that sort of thing. And it's got to be because like, I mean, you can even like get crazy into fishing or something and spend a zillion dollars and buy like everything, all the boats and the rods and the reel, then the lures, and you just go nuts. And then you got $5,000 worth of gear in the corner of the garage.
Jack
And all of a sudden you realize you don't like worms and you're done.
Joe
Well, and then, but that, that's fine. You squandered a bunch of money. You sell it at a garage sale, Somebody gets a Rod for cheap. I mean, all right, the humanity can struggle onward, but when it's the ideological. I'm young, I'm energetic. I've got just enough education to be dangerous. I want to change the world. The angry young man syndrome. Although it's mostly women, or at least a lot of women these days. Yeah, it's. I don't know, it's. It's a car with no brakes.
Jack
This murderous nut job was valedictorian at a $40,000 a year private high school.
Joe
Yeah, yeah, he. Well, he'd been going there for 6th through 12th grade, I think. So. Yeah. It came from plenty of money, right?
Jack
Had to be angry about something.
Joe
Angry about Corey's gonna bring down corporate America as a fan of the Unabomber.
Jack
By murdering some guy in cold blood. Shooting him in the back.
Joe
Just horrible. Enjoy living in a cage, Luigi.
Jack
Yeah. Officially, I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this. It is Tuesday, December 10, the year 2024. Life will not be aboard 24 or Armstrong and Getty. And we approve of this program.
Joe
Let's leap into action then. Officially, according to FCC rules and regulations. Here we go. At mark, they ask him, have you.
Jack
Been to New York recently? And he starts shaking. And that's when the police officers, including the one who arrested him, his. He's been on the job now only six months.
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Jack
You seem nervous.
Joe
Why you shaking?
Jack
Why you sweating? I got one of those bad quarter pounders with cheese. Man, these things are.
Joe
I think it's the onions.
Jack
Excuse me. He's got to be some level of crazy though.
Joe
You're.
Jack
You're maybe the most wanted person in America right now, and you're sitting at a McDonald's eating in the middle of the day. It doesn't seem like what you would do.
Joe
Ideology leads to crazy all the time. How does all the time.
Jack
How does the bag of mail look today?
Joe
A plus, Very strong. Cool.
Jack
Already gave you the text line. We got a lot today. Stay with us, Armstrong and Getty.
Michael
All right, we're all set for the party. I've trimmed the tree, hung the mistletoe, and paired all those weird shaped knives and forks with the appropriate cheeses. And I plugged in the Partisan.
Jack
Partisan?
Michael
It's a home cocktail maker that makes over 60 premium cocktails. Plus a whole lot of seasonal favorites too. I just got it for 50 off, so. How about a Cosmopolitan or a mistletoe margarita?
Jack
I'm thirsty.
Michael
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Jack
To feel more seasonal in here already.
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We gotta get some Christmas music up in here. Michael. Christmas is two weeks from tomorrow. Two weeks.
Joe
What are you anti Christmas? Is this your war on Christmas?
Jack
It's Michael's war on Christmas. If you say Merry Christmas to him, he gets very angry. It's Happy Holidays, you Nazi.
Joe
Wow.
Jack
I was at my son's Christmas band concert last night, which was also a fundraiser for the band department and they had a silent auction and I walked away with an apple pie and a homemade cheesecake by, by lurking around the silent auction table as you have to do, and getting in at the end and going big.
Joe
Got a circle like a, like a bird of prey.
Jack
But I need a giant cheesecake and an apple pie at my house like I need my eyes gouged out.
Joe
Here's your freedom loving quote of the day. We're focusing on family this week. Got two Georges for you. First, George Bernard Shaw, A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
Jack
That is awesome.
Joe
Well, it's just, you know, both, you know, my wife and I and our kids have frequently said the more they learn and the more they see and live, the more grateful we are that, you know, we all get along. And then so that's George Bernard Shaw with a beautiful, beautiful thought. A happy families, but an earlier heaven than this. George from George Burns. Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close knit family in another city.
Jack
That's a funny one.
Joe
Yeah, I see his point. Mailbag, drop us a Note mailbag@armstronggetty.com I wish I could answer more of them. I do a few. It's just there's so many and but it's so great to hear from so many of you except the angry idiots, not so much, y'all. Note from Martin here, guys. You often remind us that words make a lot of difference. Liberals are people who believe in free speech and freedom of thought. Progressives believe that if you disagree with them, you're a bad person and must be canceled. Let's remember to not sugarcoat progressives by calling them liberals.
Jack
Yeah, there should be. There should be more care. Paid attention to those two terms.
Joe
Yeah, well said, Martin. No, no, no, objection. JT in Livermore with a couple of musical takes today is a man of many interests. Holy cow. Jay Z has been drawn into the Diddy scandal. Do you know what this means, don't you? Or you know what this means, don't you? It means that of the three self made hip hop billionaires, Kanye west is the most honorable slash normal. Who saw that coming? Yeah, he's his own worst victim, I think.
Jack
Dre's a billionaire. He hasn't done anything.
Joe
Yeah, yeah, yeah. 2. Dr. Dre.
Jack
Yeah, he's busy. The pandemic, you know, he's very busy during the pandemic. Of course, sure.
Joe
Of course. He's as much a real doctor as Dr. Jill, for instance. So then I love this. Michael, do you have our clip of the year from a couple years handy that I requested? Robert sent this along. Or is it Bob? I don't know. Robert. He said, the fruits of the free press. Bon appetit. I was reading about the person of interest in the United CEO Healthcare. United Healthcare CEO killing. When I saw this. I was relieved to see that journalism lives. The headline of the story was, what was Luigi Mangione doing in the McDonald's? And then a couple of paragraphs in it said, according to authorities, he was sitting there eating.
George
See someone actually walking away with a.
Jack
Cheesecake there after the Cheesecake Factory was looted. Unclear where they may have gotten that.
Joe
So what was he doing inside the McDonald's? He was sitting eating McDonald's food. So that's been nailed down. Oh, boy. And then JT and Livermore's other musical take, Joe says that there's more way to skin a cat. We were discussing that expression and the origin of it yesterday, I guess, and partly on the podcast, right? The One More Thing podcast, to which I say, well, they're skinning the cats, they're skinning the dogs. They're skinning the pets of the people who live there.
Jack
They're eating the dogs, they're eating the cats. Meow, meow, meow, meow. Eating the pets of the people that live there.
Joe
All right. Thank you for that. Let's see. Do we have time for this? Yeah, I guess we do. Nice note from Z here. Kind of weird. The heart. Oh, talk about some weird social dynamics. Kind of weird. The hardcore left is making a Robin Hood out of this United Healthcare CEO shooter. Who the hell names their kid Luigi post Italy, 1940s. Anyway, he wants to know. Brian Thompson, the evil health executive was by all accounts a regular hard working family man. Came up from a working class family, graduating from the University of Iowa, worked hard for decades to make his way up the corporate ladder. Say what you want about UnitedHealthcare as a company and perhaps some of his choices, but. Excuse me, I got an itch in my throat. But Brian was a hard working man with a loving family who didn't come from comparison for money, but earned his way up the ladder. By contrast, good old boy Luigi who a disturbing number of women on Twitter having the Ted Bundy reaction over comes from absurd wealth. He went to a $40,000 a year prep school for F's sake, then proceeds to be a frat bro at Penn, gets his way into the tech industry, becomes a pseudo intellectual LinkedIn bro, proceeds to experiment on psychedelics until he loses his mind, goes to New York City and murders someone in cold blood. Just don't understand the social dynamics of the hard left. Turning someone they would for all and purposes utterly despise into a folk here all because they don't like the company whose CEO killed. Well, that's because so much of the support from this progressive point of view is exactly him. His sort.
Jack
Yeah. By the way, even if the CEO is a scumbag, that's not the way we can run a country where you shoot, you assassinate people to try to win your arguments. We got a lot more news on the way.
George
Stay with us, Armstrong and Getty.
Michael
All right, we're all set for the party. I've trimmed the tree, hung the mistletoe, and paired all those weird shaped knives and forks with the appropriate cheeses. And I plugged in the Bartesian.
Jack
Bartesian.
Michael
It's a home cocktail maker that makes over 60 premium cocktails. Plus a whole lot of seasonal favorites too. I just got it for 50 off, so how about a Cosmopolitan or a Mistletoe margarita?
Jack
I'm thirsty.
Michael
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Jack
Feel more seasonal in here already.
Michael
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Jack
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Daniel Penney cleared of all criminal charges.
George
In that deadly chokehold that took the.
Michael
Life of Jordan Neely on a New York city subway. After five days of deliberations, a jury finding the 26 year old Marine veteran not guilty of criminally negligent homicide. Authorities say Neely suffered from mental illness and drug addiction. The defense maintaining Penny never intended to kill.
George
All 12 jurors voting not guilty on.
Michael
That remaining lesser charge.
Jack
All 12? Yeah, Alvin Bragg. You. Well, I was going to call him a bunch of names that don't really mean anything as opposed to just Marxists. Try to destroy the idiot. Idiot. So frustrating that this ever even got off the ground, but thank you.
Joe
I want to get to the evil, evil Alvin Bragg sooner or later, but.
Jack
Thank goodness it was the direction it did. And a lot of people very happy that Daniel Penny is a free man today. Not this guy. One of the leaders of Black Lives Matter in New York.
Joe
We need some black vigilantes. That's right. People want to jump up and choke us and kill us for being loud. How about we do the same when they attempt to oppress us, right? I'm tired.
Jack
Tired.
Joe
Called. Forget the long version of that where he and his cohorts say Daniel Penny is not welcome on the streets of New York. The NYPD doesn't police these streets. We do.
Jack
So if you're a leader of Black Lives Matter, which is a shot through with all kinds of bad, the people that started it stole the money in.
Joe
Jail, Marxists, racists, thieves.
Jack
They're openly Marxist and now calling for violence. But you get a free pass. No, no, I didn't see. Have you seen that anywhere? Other than floating around media like social media? I've not seen that anywhere. How is that not a news story? The leader of Black Lives Matter in New York called for violence on the street. Choking white people after the verdict doesn't.
Joe
Fit the narrative that the young journalists cling to every day. The DEI garbage is not on the retreat in media and in academia and in government. More on that later. But I like this comment here. Speaking to the media. The AP breaking news, Dan. Daniel Penny, a veteran who used a chokehold on subway rider Jordan Neely, has been acquitted. Neely's death. The comment is subway rider. He had 42 prior arrests for including for assaul. Threatening to hurt people on the subway. He did hurt people on the subway and he was a mentally ill drug addict. If not for X Twitter, a lot of people wouldn't know this stuff.
Jack
No, they wouldn't. And another regularly left out piece of information. You ask the people that were on that subway car, they were thankful that Penny intervened. They were scared to death of this lunatic.
Joe
Right? Indeed. A great piece by Bill McGurn in the wall Street Journal. Merry Christmas, Daniel Penny Jury delivers a measure of justice. Here is my favorite line from it, if I can find it, because I want to get it exactly right. Well, I'm looking up at Fox.
Jack
So Fox has got the BLM leaders calling for violence. No other news outlet that is news. That is the definition of news. One of the most popular organizations in modern history in terms of moving the needle and getting attention. Black Lives Matter and the New York chapter, the biggest city in America, they're calling for violence in the streets and it didn't make the news.
Joe
That's how biased they are. They're completely dishonest.
Jack
That's incredible.
Joe
I hate the media. So here it is. I love this line. Every father hopes there will be a Daniel Penny on the train every time their daughter rides the subway. Amen to that. Amen to that. I like how he points out it was a. The acquittal was a stinging rebuke to Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, even though he maneuvered it in every possible way to get a conviction for something, even a minor charge. One big difference. Well, he points out that the difference between this and the George Floyd case is that Mr. Penny's an architecture student who served in the Marines and was just responding when a man started threatening innocent people who were terrified. Clearly mentally ill with a history of violence.
Jack
Yeah, well, the whole. He is, he's mentally ill. He's had drug problems. Okay? So when I've got him in the chokehold and I'm worried he's going to stab somebody to death, once I find out he is mentally ill or has a drug problem, I'm supposed to let him go and stab people? I mean, I don't even know what the point of that is.
Joe
Right. So for the George Floyd activists. McGurn writes, the whole incident confirms their view that the American justice system is structurally racist. But ordinary Americans without racial axes to Grind saw Mr. Penney's trial as an example of prosecutorial madness, the inability to distinguish the good guys from the bad. Then he had that line about fathers hoping there will be a Daniel Penny around should their daughters fall prey to somebody like this. And New York Mayor Eric Adams spoke for law abiding residents of the city when he complained that Neely, quote, a clearly mentally disturbed and very threatening criminal was being presented in the press as a young, innocent child in a Michael Jackson imitator who was murdered for no reason. Eric Adams is outraged by the media.
Jack
Coverage on Michael Jackson impersonator.
Joe
Yeah, well, and then he, McGurn gets into the fact that Bragg's prosecution sent a number of messages to people including, if you see trouble, don't get involved. If you see the weak and innocent being preyed upon by the strong and vicious, well, you'll be the bad guy if you protect them.
Jack
Well, let the state take care of it in one way or another.
Joe
Yeah. After the cops are minutes away. Yeah. Yeah. Now he's got to go through a civil trial, but I suspect very strongly that his legal fees will continue to be covered by people who are concerned. But at least for the love of God, Alvin Bragg's vicious, racist Marxist campaign against justice was. Was thwarted for the moment. Right.
Jack
But this BLM angle to me is huge.
Joe
Yeah.
Jack
Oh, yeah, you got a bunch of people there listening to these BLM leaders call for violence, cheering them on. Yeah, that's a problem.
Joe
Do they believe that?
Jack
I mean, I understand it's a Marxist organization. At the very top, they're Marxists, but the people standing around, are they Marxists or do they just actually believe that this was. This, this was a racist, this was a lynching and we need to lynch back. Is that what they actually believe?
Joe
Some of them do, yeah. A lot of them do, yeah. There's a lot of stupid involved too. It's interesting. Any revolutionary movement has a combination of intellectuals who are manipulating and then the stupid who are manipulated and they have a direction for their anger and frustration or envy or whatever else. And yeah, again, it's, it's a crime that it's being ignored by the media, but it doesn't fit the narrative.
Jack
And then Penny's in that.
Joe
Which is why those media outlets are dying. It's worth mentioning. And those who call it like it is are growing.
Jack
And Penny is in that uncomfortable situation of. Of course he's smiling and relieved that he's not going to spend the rest of his life in jail.
Joe
Yes.
Jack
And buddy, you know, he killed a guy so he, you know, he's, he's not about that. I'm sure the portrayal of it in at least in social media, as I was taking it in yesterday, was hard to take.
Joe
Yeah, absolutely. One more note on Alvin Bragg since he took power as a Marxist prosecutor, a non prosecutor as of November of this year there were. Well, I could give you the numbers, but felonies are up 17% from before when Bragg took office. 17%. Rape is up seven and a half percent across Manhattan, robbery up 9%, felony assault up 17% and grand larceny up 30%. These elections matter for DAs County Attorneys. They matter a lot. Pay attention to them, please.
Jack
So we I'm looking at Clarissa Ward of cnn, man. She's right in the middle of one of your big cities in Syria where it's still a giant party going on. We'll see how that hall shakes out over time. I hope it continues to be a good story, but that's not the history of these things. More on that later.
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Very wholesome Christmas band concert last night at my son's high school. Just fantastic. Could have been Better all the way around. And music was even good and everything like that. But it was a fundraiser, and they had a silent auction for. I'm sure it was mostly moms making baked goods. And between my desire to donate money to the band department and my lust for baked goods, which is practically as high as my lust. Lust. I went big, and I won two of the major prizes, and now they're sitting on my counter in just a matter of time before I eat them in their entirety.
Joe
Wow, Michael, you can't bring those sons of guns in.
Jack
I think I got two.
Joe
You don't want that.
Jack
I got to bring in the cheesecake. And the. I can't eat the whole apple pie. Or the cheesecake is like the size of a manhole cover.
Joe
Yeah.
Jack
Homemade cheesecake is a gift from God.
Joe
It is?
Jack
Yeah.
Joe
Oh, yeah. Is it kind of your standard flavored cheesecake? Is there any sort of fruit?
Jack
There's a lot of fruit on top. So like a New York style cheesecake with a lot of fruit on top.
Joe
Mama.
Jack
And then there's. If you've ever done the silent auction thing, you know, you write down. You write down your name and an amount, and then somebody comes by and says, I'll give $5 more of that. And they write down their name and amount, and you come back a little bit later and you check the piece of paper and that SOB thinks he can outbid. Then your ego kicks in to a certain extent. All right?
Joe
You think they're better than me.
Jack
Exactly.
Joe
Nobody loves pie more than you do, so.
Jack
Right. God, there was some cinnamon rolls there. I was very close to just like, you know, if I sold this and sold that, I could come up with enough money.
Joe
Let's go bigger. So you're saying that cheesecake is worth fifteen hundred dollars?
Jack
I was thinking, you know, maybe if I buy some bitcoin and get lucky.
Joe
Wow. Maybe you could get financing. Can you finance cinnamon rolls?
Jack
Oh, geez. The fact when they read out the names, I was the only person that had their name on two things. So when they read the names at the end of the concert, I thought, is this a good look? Does this make me look like somebody who' to the arts, or does this look like me with like. Like a guy with an eating problem?
Joe
Glutton.
Jack
We can't help but notice that nobody else had two items that they decided to go big on. But congratulations to Jack.
Joe
How many pies does he need? Exactly.
Jack
We've got Katie's headlines on the way, and there's a fair amount of news Today, what's going on in Syria continues to be really interesting. They read a long article yesterday about their historic, horrifying prison that they've got there.
Joe
Oh, that.
Jack
They still haven't figured out how to get into the bott layer where they've got people locked up. They can see them down there, but they can't get in. It's ugly. Anyway, lots of news on the way. Stay here.
Michael
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Tis the season to be jolly.
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Jack
Is that Andy Williams class?
Joe
That is Andy the great Andy Williams classic. Like a single came. I'd never shut up. Okay, there he goes. He went progressive on us there.
Jack
What I didn't I had a news thing I was going to bring up but it doesn't work over that music. So maybe I'll save it till preceding hours as we have more of those coming here on the Armstrong and Getty Show. Wanting to get into the news today. I have Oprah's list. Her she puts out her Christmas list every year. There's actually a couple of interesting things on there that I was unaware of, so share that with you. Her Christmas lifts her shopping list. She finds cool new hot items usually, you know, I know everybody's so turned off by her giving her $2 million speech to try to get Kamala Harris.
Joe
Elected whatever that unholy exchange was, right?
Jack
God, has anybody ever disappeared as fast as Kamala Harris did? Wow. Where and what is she? Will we ever hear from her again?
Joe
Believe it or not, there are still ongoing revelations about how delusional the left is about what happened in the election. I came across a great one. You just, they, they may never win again. Of course, you know, that's said all the time. But reality finally does sl slap you upside the head. But yeah, it's amazing how delusional they are. Hey, let's figure out who's reporting what. It's lead story with Katie Green. Katie.
High5
All right, starting with NBC. Israel strikes and advances into Syrian territory after Assad's overthrow.
Joe
Man, they built Iran was certain that October 7th would change everything in the Middle East. Yeah, well, it has.
Jack
Israel built quite the wall between them and Syria and like two hours. It was amazing over the weekend and.
High5
Kind of in the same realm. ABC US Seeks to balance backing Syrian people while protecting American interests. Says the Biden administration wants to avoid a power vacuum after the rebel takeover.
Jack
Yeah, I, you know, I'm, I'm leaning toward yeah, that'd be nice if we could, but we, we haven't shown that we can do that.
Joe
No. And what, what are you going to do anyway?
High5
From the Associated Press, President Joe Biden rushing out billions of dollars more in military aid to Ukraine before Trump enters the White House.
Jack
Yeah, that's the way it's always pitched is that it's about Trump coming in. I don't have any idea what Trump's plans are in Ukraine. But I, again, I, the situation Ukraine, Russia, I see is completely different than getting involved in Syria. You can't lump them together as similar American adventure, never ending war situations.
Joe
Did you see Tucker Carlson was in Russia again spouting Putin's talking points. And it's just unbelievable. I do not get it.
High5
From the New York Post. Ex WaPo reporter Taylor Loren said she felt joy over the assassination of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Quote, feels like justice.
Jack
So whatever her platform was just dropped her saying we don't want her anymore because she's too crazy and nutty. But you got to remember she worked for the Washington Post and the New York Times. This, this nut job.
Joe
She was a household name in those circles. She was calling aggressively for anybody who dissented with the COVID you know, conventional thinking to be canceled and deplatformed and jailed. And she was, she was one of their cheerleaders on that side, a hero.
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Joe
Wow. Wow.
Jack
Yeah.
Joe
That outpouring of love. Yeah. Tell you what, you hire my company to produce a big event. I'll do 10 minutes, I'll strum a couple of songs on guitar, talk about how important you are in, you know, as just a little extra little, little bonus for the contract from did anybody actually support her? Anybody? Well, apparently some people voted for her, but good lord, what a zero of a candidate.
High5
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Jack
That's probably the future.
Joe
I have a couple of very amusing AI related stories for next hour as well.
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Jack
Huh. They think if you have another day off, you're going to have a baby. I just don't know that that makes sense to me.
Joe
I don't know. Friday is loving day. I don't know.
Jack
Sure. Change the entire structure of my life for the rest of my life because I have Friday off.
Joe
Why not? Well, I was reading again about China's demographic disaster. They have cities that are just going away, disappearing. Everybody's old, everything's closing.
Jack
People don't have children or not have children based on whether or not they have Friday off.
High5
And wouldn't this be fun? From the Babylon Bee. The View ratings soar after introducing ejection seat for when hosts make inaccurate statements.
Jack
That'd be funny.
Joe
Well, the place would be empty like five minutes into every show.
Jack
So we'll catch you up on some of the news of the day. The thing I didn't want to mention over Andy Williams from Syria and other stuff. If you miss an hour, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand.
George
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Release Date: December 10, 2024
Host: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty
Produced by: iHeartPodcasts
In the episode titled "Somebody Gets A Rod For Cheap," hosts Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty delve into the controversial acquittal of Daniel Penny in the case involving the death of Jordan Neely on a New York City subway. The discussion navigates through legal intricacies, media bias, ideological conflicts, and the broader implications on the justice system and societal perceptions.
The core of the episode centers around Daniel Penny, a recently acquitted individual charged with criminally negligent homicide after a subway altercation resulted in Jordan Neely's death.
Incident Background:
Jack Armstrong initiates the conversation by questioning the circumstances leading to Penny's acquittal.
Jack (03:31): "Wonder if I could get a note from my doctor that says Jack's not supposed to work in temperatures less than 40 degrees."
Legal Proceedings:
The hosts debate the necessity of warrants in such situations and the police's authority to apprehend individuals based on suspicion.
Joe Getty (05:29): "Well, it depends on the circumstance. If it was that circumstance, they would have probably just cuffed him or something."
Supreme Court Ruling & Media Representation:
The discussion highlights perceived media biases in portraying Penny versus other criminal cases. The hosts express frustration over the media's selective reporting.
Joe Getty (06:12): "This story reminds me of the... a wannabe serial killer who killed a couple of people a couple years ago. Very similar story."
Armstrong and Getty scrutinize the media's role in shaping public perception, especially concerning high-profile cases involving marginalized groups.
Selective Reporting:
The hosts argue that while certain actions by influential individuals like BLM leaders advocating violence receive little to no media attention, similar or more severe actions by others are widely reported.
Jack Armstrong (30:50): "Dan. Daniel Penny, a veteran who used a chokehold on subway rider Jordan Neely, has been acquitted... What was he doing inside the McDonald's? He was sitting eating McDonald's food. So that's been nailed down."
Impact on Public Opinion:
They discuss how media portrayal affects public sentiment and the judicial process, suggesting that bias undermines justice.
Joe Getty (34:19): "Felonies are up 17% from before when Bragg took office. 17%. Rape is up seven and a half percent across Manhattan..."
The episode delves into how extreme ideological beliefs can lead to irrational actions, emphasizing the dangers of unchecked fervor.
Over-Educated Liberals:
The hosts criticize what they perceive as "over-educated progressive" individuals whose ideologies overshadow rational judgment.
Joe Getty (10:24): "He's the modern incarnation of Patty Hearst or whatever other would be. Brave, revolutionary."
Consequences of Ideological Extremes:
They argue that extreme beliefs, whether in politics or personal passions, can lead to destructive behaviors and societal discord.
Jack Armstrong (11:03): "... everybody has to believe in some sort of ideology and then they go way too far with it."
Armstrong and Getty explore the effectiveness of the justice system under District Attorney Alvin Bragg, highlighting increasing crime rates and public safety concerns.
Rising Crime Statistics:
The hosts cite alarming increases in various crime categories since Bragg's tenure began.
Joe Getty (36:07): "... felonies are up 17% from before when Bragg took office. 17%..."
Public Perception and Trust:
They discuss how these statistics erode public trust in the justice system and the DA's office.
Jack Armstrong (34:49): "But this BLM angle to me is huge."
The conversation also touches on everyday scenarios involving law enforcement, personal rights, and societal expectations.
Police Encounters:
The hosts debate hypothetical situations involving police interactions, privacy rights, and personal safety.
Jack Armstrong (05:14): "If they just said, I want to see your id, I'm not giving it to you. I'm eating. I want to eat my cheeseburger. So what would have happened at that point?"
Memory and Recognition:
They briefly discuss the concept of "super recognizers" and individual differences in face recognition abilities.
Joe Getty (07:12): "There could be both, but I think you may have an excuse."
The episode concludes with a reinforcement of the hosts' skepticism towards media narratives and ideological movements, emphasizing the need for unbiased reporting and rational discourse. Armstrong and Getty advocate for a justice system that upholds public safety without succumbing to ideological pressures.
Throughout the episode, there are interspersed advertisements for products like the Bartesian home cocktail maker, Del Taco promotions, and casino platforms. These segments are seamlessly integrated into the discussion but are separate from the main content.
Note: This summary focuses solely on the substantive discussions between the hosts, omitting promotional content and non-discussion segments to provide a clear and comprehensive overview for listeners who have not tuned into the episode.