Strippers & a Game of Golf!

Summary

Podcast Summary: Armstrong & Getty On Demand

Episode: Strippers & a Game of Golf!
Date: September 8, 2025
Hosts: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty

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Overview

This episode features Armstrong & Getty’s trademark mix of humor, sharp political commentary, and bewilderment at the state of the world. The central theme moves quickly from the strange demands of a would-be Trump assassin on trial (strippers and a golf game for his life) into economic skepticism, government agency renaming lampoons, cultural shifts, the realities of aging, and the mechanics (and impact) of immigration enforcement. Segments are punctuated with satirical and often self-deprecating banter, and the episode closes with reflections on fan culture, online toxicity, and everyday life.

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Key Discussion Points

1. The "Nut Job" Trump Assassination Trial (Strippers & Golf)

• Strange Requests from the Defendant
  Jack kicks off with a surreal news item: jury selection for the trial of the man accused of plotting to assassinate Trump at a golf course, who is representing himself and requested strippers, a putting green, and a golf match with Trump—winner takes the presidency, loser faces execution.
• Commentary on Legal Absurdity & Mental Health
  Both hosts marvel at the absurdity and clear mental instability involved:
  • Jack Armstrong [03:16]: “The three things he asked the judge for were strippers, a putting green, and...to challenge Donald Trump to 18 holes, where if he lost, Trump gets to execute him. But if he wins, he gets Trump's job, which would be an odd arrangement.”
  • Joe Getty [04:23]: “It’s a stretch, constitutionally speaking, but I could see it happening…”

2. Economic Statistics & Job Numbers Skepticism

• Conflicting Employment Survey Data
  The conversation pivots to the recent jobs report and skepticism surrounding economic data, highlighting discrepancies between two key employment surveys: payroll vs. household.
  • Kevin Hassett (Trump advisor) [06:09]: “There’s something called the payroll survey where they ask employers…then there’s the household survey…payroll said four and a half million jobs, household says about two million fewer… They should have the same answer.”
• Media Critique
  • Joe Getty [07:12]: “That’s cuckoo nuts. Why are you collecting that data? Just make up a number, it saves time.”
  • The hosts voice frustration that most media don’t discuss these statistical issues, feeding political narratives instead of clarifying data.

3. Government Agency Renaming: Satire and Cynicism

• Babylon Bee Parody
  The discussion turns to the trend (part serious, part satirical) of renaming federal agencies, notably Trump’s proposal to revert the Department of Defense to the Department of War.

  • Jack Armstrong [11:12]: “Renaming the Department of Social Security to the Charles Ponzi Memorial Retirement Plan. Which is pretty funny, as it is a Ponzi scheme and anybody who screams it isn’t is just lying to you.”
  • Both hosts find humor (and some uncomfortable truths) in the satire about government inefficiencies and overreach.

• Wall Street Journal Critiques
  Andy Kessler’s more pointed takes are noted, e.g. the Department of Commerce as “Corporate Extortion,” and the Department of Treasury as “Dollar Printing Like Confetti.”

• American Literacy and Education System Failures
  Startling statistic discussed:

  • Jack Armstrong [14:27]: “Is that true? Do more than half of Americans read at a sixth grade or less level?”
  • Joe Getty [14:35]: “That’s correct.”

4. Supreme Court & ICE Immigration Enforcement

• Clarification of Court Orders
  The hosts dissect misleading reporting on a recent Supreme Court order regarding ICE’s authority in Los Angeles. They highlight media misrepresentation and advocate for skepticism:
  • Jack Armstrong [30:01]: “The New York Times wrote this this way on purpose… The result they want is for you to say, ‘Oh, no, Trump's out of control. MAGA court has done it again.’”

5. Aging, Empathy & Innovation: The "Old Person Suit"

• Corporate Response to Aging Populations

  • Jack explains how companies are developing “age suits” (like MIT’s AGNES) to simulate elderly limitations, helping in product design.
  • Joe Getty [22:18]: “The suit sounds half comedic, honestly, but…the entire tent there—in a world of aging people, that’s good.”

• Staying Active Versus Genetics

  • Jack Armstrong [22:55]: “You can put off that by quite a bit by staying active… But…the majority of reason that we end up that way…is not your fault. Just random bad luck.”

6. Cultural Shifts: Fan Culture, Online Toxicity, and Social Change

• Fan Forums & Social Media

  • The hosts muse on Reddit and Facebook pages devoted to their show, surprised at their scale and sudden shutdowns; they speculate censorship and spam as reasons.
  • Jack Armstrong [41:31]: “There's a Facebook fan page and a Reddit fan page…I didn't know they existed, but anyway…and the Reddit page got taken down.”

• Rise of Online Toxicity

  • Both discuss how anger and aggression have become the norm online, influencing how people interact even in benign circumstances.
  • Jack Armstrong [44:41]: “I just can’t imagine being that angry about—how could you possibly be so stupid? Do some research. …I think it’s the way you feel like you gotta talk online.”
  • Joe Getty [45:05]: “Whenever we call somebody on it, they immediately apologize…maybe it's just the lingua franca, as they say.”

7. Immigration, Employment, and Economic Incentives

• Hyundai Plant Incident & Patterns
  The hosts discuss mass importation of foreign workers, highlighting parallels with past practices and the difficulty of employer accountability.
  • Joe Getty [34:22]: “How do you have hundreds…and it's not clear to me exactly where the malfeasance is. It might be the state of Georgia, although this is a federal matter.”
  • Jack Armstrong [37:16]: “You would think so…Well, the giant meat companies, they have a lot of influence.”

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Absurd Legal Requests:
  Jack Armstrong [03:16]: “The three things he asked the judge for were strippers, a putting green, and…to challenge Donald Trump to 18 holes, where if he lost, Trump gets to execute him. But if he wins, he gets Trump’s job, which would be an odd arrangement.”

• On Employment Data:
  Kevin Hassett [06:09]: “They had the biggest revisions in 50 years over the summer…Payroll said that we created four and a half million jobs. Household survey said about two million fewer. And they should have the same answer.”

• On Government Renaming Satire:
  Jack Armstrong [11:12]: “Renaming the Department of Social Security to the Charles Ponzi Memorial Retirement Plan.”

• On the State of Education:
  Joe Getty [14:35]: “There are 30 schools in Illinois with zero students reading at grade level.”

• On Media Bias & Supreme Court Reporting:
  Jack Armstrong [30:01]: “The New York Times wrote this this way on purpose then? Because I just read it from their headline…That is accurate but misleading.”

• On Online Anger:
  Jack Armstrong [44:41]: “I just can’t imagine being that angry about—how could you possibly be so stupid? …I think it’s the way you feel like you gotta talk online.”

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Important Segment Timestamps

• [03:16] — Trump would-be assassin’s bizarre demands (strippers, putting green, golf for presidency)
• [06:09] — Kevin Hassett on jobs report discrepancies
• [11:12] — Satirical renaming of government departments
• [14:27] — Shocking American literacy discussion
• [19:33] — ICE enforcement and Supreme Court legal nuance
• [21:53] — Aging population and the MIT “Agnes suit”
• [30:01] — Dissecting misleading headlines about Supreme Court decisions
• [34:22] — Hyundai plant, South Korean workers, and immigration enforcement
• [41:31] — Armstrong & Getty Reddit and Facebook pages, censorship speculation
• [44:41] — Spiking online toxicity and social interaction commentary

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Tone & Style

Throughout, Jack and Joe maintain a sardonic, irreverent, and occasionally exasperated tone, punctuated by offhand jokes, deadpan sarcasm, and genuine concern for the state of public discourse. Their conversational chemistry mixes cynicism with moments of earnest reflection, making for both entertaining banter and deeper critique.

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Final Thoughts

To close, the hosts reflect on humility drawn from everyday life (Jack’s excitement for a prune delivery prompting jokes about aging), salute the underappreciated efforts of parents in youth organizations, and express their enduring, perhaps irrational, love for football. The episode is a quintessential Armstrong & Getty experience: topical, biting, and ultimately grounded in a bemused affection for flawed humanity.

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For listeners seeking sharp wit, real skepticism, and unfiltered cultural commentary, this episode delivers.

Transcript

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Armstrong and Joe Getty.

[Joe Getty]

Armstrong and Getty.

[Jack Armstrong]

And now here's Armstrong and Getty. So the jury selection begins today in the trial of that nut job who was gonna kill Trump at the golf course and got way too close to being able to pull it off. And he was in the bushes with a rifle. Just needed to wait a little longer before they had came down walking down the fairway.

[Joe Getty]

Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

Holy crap. But anyway, I call him a nut job because he's actually crazy. He is representing himself and the three things he asked the judge for were strippers, a putting green, and he wanted to challenge Donald Trump to 18 hole round of golf where if he lost, Trump gets to execute him. But if he wins, he gets Trump's job, which would be an odd arrangement.

[Joe Getty]

It's a stretch, constitutionally speaking, but I could see it happening. Did he mention whether it would be match play or stroke play? Probably not significant. Back to you.

[Jack Armstrong]

I think Trump should take him up on it because I bet Trump could beat him.

[Joe Getty]

Well, if the guy spends a little time with that putting green, gets his stroke all locked in, who knows? The strippers are difficult. I mean, it's, you know, maybe just likes naked women, but seems like an odd request. Has the judge ruled on his requests?

[Jack Armstrong]

Anyway, they're selecting the jury today. I wouldn't mind being on that jury. That'd be a pretty interesting trial, looking into that guy's crazy background and then also probably getting quite a bit of information on things the Secret Service did well and maybe not well in that situation, I don't know.

[Joe Getty]

The defense countered with a putting green, a llama, and a foot race against J.D.

[Jack Armstrong]

Vance.

[Joe Getty]

The judges expected to rule.

[Jack Armstrong]

Different topic. So remember, the jobs numbers came out on Friday and they were quite low and below expectations. And a lot of the mainstream media beaten up Trump over his tariff policies, destroying America and blah, blah, blah. And I don't know anything about that other than this. Kevin Hassett, one of Trump's economic advisors, was on Face the Nation yesterday. He's one of Trump's best spokespeople in this. Kevin Hassett should get on more shows because he's really good at it, explaining once again, as they had explained a month prior, about how there's just. The methodology for the jobs numbers thing is just all over the place. And this was him on Face the Nation.

[Christina Quinn]

Has job creation stalled? And should the Federal Reserve be concerned about the jobs picture?

[Kevin Hassett]

Right. Well, first of all, the interesting thing about the jobs numbers. Right. Is that they had the biggest revisions in 50 years over the summer, and we came in with 22,000 in August. But if you look at what they said in 23 and 24, they have two ways of estimating the jobs. There's something called the payroll survey where they ask the employers, how many people did you hire? Then they have something called the household survey, where they call up people, they say, do you have a job? And over those two years, the payroll numbers said that we created four and a half million jobs. And the household survey said about two million fewer. About two and a half million jobs. And they should have the same answer.

[Jack Armstrong]

So one is like double the other number. And as he's pointing out, when you've got that level of, well, which one is right? Something's got to get fixed.

[Joe Getty]

Well, yeah, you got to look at that and say, hey, one of these is wildly wrong.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right.

[Joe Getty]

Or both of them.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. And I just wanted to get that on because you don't. You haven't heard that from anybody.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, that's. That's cuckoo nuts. You're not. Why are you collecting that data? It's just. Just make up a number. It saves time.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, that was his point ago.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

And Brennan's attempted push back was because he started trout melt some numbers, and her pushback was, oh, you believe those numbers, but not these. And he said, well, there aren't alternate numbers for the ones I just mentioned that are, like, wildly different. The number that you're talking about, there are two ways to measure it, and they're completely all over the place.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. I wouldn't argue. Therefore, the job market's great because there's every sign in the world that it's not. But that is interesting because so much hay is made of those numbers every time they come out.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. So that's that. Just thought that was interesting. That is that.

[Joe Getty]

I thought you said you had something else.

[Jack Armstrong]

No, I did not.

[Joe Getty]

To go with.

[Jack Armstrong]

I said that I misspoke.

[Joe Getty]

Well, you misled us. Then my.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, my other thing to go with it was talking about the trial, which I laid out the.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, right, right.

[Jack Armstrong]

The demands. The Kukula guy wanted the strippers, the putting green and the golf match. With the President.

[Joe Getty]

Did he say, like, how many strippers or in what, like, setting?

[Jack Armstrong]

Just plural. So I guess couldn't somewhere between two and a thousand.

[Joe Getty]

But performing in his cell, would he be transported to the strip? I'd like to know as bailiffs about his. His specific as bailiffs. Now that is sexy, you've been naughty, etc. So, Jack, earlier we were talking about the Trump renaming of the Department of Defense, the Department of War, and you were going to explain to us the origin actually of the original change, which was in, I think, 1947 or something.

[Jack Armstrong]

Like that, shortly after World War II. Yeah, I thought it was kind of interesting. I had always thought it was just a, a name change and it just seemed like a better idea to. We'll defend ourselves if we're attacked, but we're not going out trying to attack people.

[Joe Getty]

Well, the war was so horrible in so many ways, I thought maybe people just. Let's not, let's not go around talking about war casually. That's what I've always assumed.

[Jack Armstrong]

If you're a history fan, you know that back in the day, pre, pre Department of Defense, there was things called the Secretary of the Navy. You had your own secretary with the Navy and the Army. What happened after World War II is they decided there's a whole bunch of different stuff we need to bring together in one department and have one person in charge over that. And so it wasn't just a renaming the Department of War to the Department of Defense. They created a different department that included the Department of War and then all these other different things, Intelligence and all different stuff into Defense. And, and, and so it's kind of like they brought various things together after 9, 11 and then had a DNI. So that, that makes sense to me. It is a, it was a different thing at that point. I don't think it's a. It doesn't bother me at all that they change it back to the Department of War. I don't, I don't think it's a major deal and I actually kind of like the way putting up with your ass attitude of the name of it. But it wasn't just a name change back in the day. Also during the cold, when we realized it was a cold war was what we were headed into. It really was going to be more about defending ourselves than prosecuting a war. But again, I think it's a minor deal.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I would agree. Interesting points one and all. But they can call it whatever they want, Jimmy. The Department, for all I care. As Long as they, you know, keep us prepared. So, speaking of that change in name, though, the folks at the Babylon Be took a shot at renaming various departments. I don't want to get the punchline wrong. I love the one about the Social Security Administration. Do you still have that handy?

[Jack Armstrong]

I do. Renaming the Department of Social Security to the Charles Ponzi Memorial Retirement Plan. Which is pretty funny as it is a Ponzi scheme and anybody who screams it isn't is just lying to you. The Department of Justice will be remained renamed to the Department of Revenge on All Losers and Haters. That's nice.

[Joe Getty]

No.

[Jack Armstrong]

Am I gonna like this one?

[Joe Getty]

No. No.

[Jack Armstrong]

Bureau of Indian Affairs? The Department of Redskins? Not funny. Babylon B.

[Joe Getty]

No.

[Jack Armstrong]

Don't appreciate that at all. Yeah, many people hurt. Housing and Urban Development will be retitled as the Department of the Poors. I don't know if that's a good.

[Joe Getty]

That's not helpful either.

[Jack Armstrong]

Food and Drug Administration will just be called McDonald's from now on. I don't know if that's helpful either.

[Joe Getty]

Andy Kessler of the Wall Street Journal taking a slightly more serious, although equally cynical approach to it. He wants to start with the Commerce Department better labeled as the Department of Corporate Extortion. And this is one thing Trump's been doing that I am very uncomfortable with. But intel is giving up nearly 10% of its equity to Uncle Sam. Rare earth extractor. MP materials sold to Pentagon, a 15% state stake. Nvidia and AMD must now pay a 15% export tax to sell advanced chips in China. Apple announced giant investments, then in April miraculously escape reciprocal chairs on iPhones. Yeah, I don't. I don't love all that stuff.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, how could you not be against that? And it's the same story we've had for quite a while now. Try to imagine what it's going to be like when you lose an election, because you're not going to win every election going forward. You like the things your party's doing. Well, the other party is going to get to do the same stuff.

[Joe Getty]

So that's why he's taking exciting new powers.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, it doesn't end when the other team wins. And do you want President Gavin Newsom with a 10% stake in intel getting to dictate all kinds of DEI stuff or who knows what the hell.

[Joe Getty]

Right? Right. Moving along, though, I like this even more. Andy Kessler. Treasury should become the dollar printing, like, confetti department.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, this one from the Babylon B was. The Department of the treasury will now be called the Chinese Loan office a little too close to home.

[Joe Getty]

No one really knows what the Agricultural Department does. I suggest a new name. The high fructose corn syrup subsidizer. I'll tell you, that's what they essentially do.

[Jack Armstrong]

Agriculture Department does they. They push socialism all across the country. They're the most socialist chunk of the government by far, clearly.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Some of you hate this. Health and Human Services might become the class action setup faction. Former personal injury practitioner Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Is the head of HHS and he seems to be positioning all the policies for class action lawyers. Maybe you believe that, maybe you don't. The Education Department, which apparently is still around, would be better as the remedial instructor full employment group. Since more than half of Americans have literacy below a sixth grade level and our schools aren't teaching people to read, it will indeed keep remedial instructors employed full time.

[Jack Armstrong]

Say that first part. Is that true? Do more than half of Americans read at a sixth grade or less level.

[Joe Getty]

Have literacy below a sixth grade level? Yeah. More than half. That's correct.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow.

[Joe Getty]

There are 30 schools in Illinois with zero students reading at grade level. Alternately, we could call it the Ray's College Tuition Annually department because that's what it's done with the student loans. All right. The labor departments, the Union Perpetuation Society, Bureau of Alcohol, Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Just the vice squad. Energy Department is the Green Boondoggles are us. Let's see. In the EPA is the Progress Inhibiting Agency. Oh, this is a good one. Trump fans. The Federal Bureau of Investigation could be known as the Presidential Election Manipulation Organization. Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

How do you have 30 schools in Illinois where no one is reading at proficiency level? And I'm assuming that like California, their proficiency levels are embarrassingly low. Yes. So the standard's pretty low anyway, right?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Why are you.

[Joe Getty]

It's a horrific failure. Yeah, you know, I, I put to a handful of fellas over the weekend. I don't think there's any saving government schools. I think the entire system needs to be torn down and rebuilt or, or just done away with. Nobody disagreed?

[Jack Armstrong]

No, just do away with it.

[Joe Getty]

Maybe because they think I'm a maniac and they don't want to get into it with me, but they seem to be sincere.

[Jack Armstrong]

You look like somebody would attack them with a golf club if they disagreed.

[Joe Getty]

Absolutely not. No. Maybe the, the hand land, the rubberized handle end. I jab them with it. But that's, you know, that's not quote unquote, attacking them with a golf club. Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

O. We got more on the way. What do you think of that text line? 415295KFTC we have reason to believe that he's a maniac. Armstrong and Getty.

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[Jack Armstrong]

So I've vowed to stop paying attention to the back and forths of lower courts until the Supreme Court decides on things. Because what's the point? The Supreme Court has decided that this they have lifted restrictions on ICE agents in la, allowing them to make indiscriminate stops based on factors like ethnicity. The Supreme Court weighed in on that.

[Joe Getty]

Hmm.

[Jack Armstrong]

So seeing somebody who's brown is not automatically out of bounds for a reason to hey, you got any paperwork? Now maybe you agree with that, maybe you don't, but that decision has been made.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I'd like to read the decision. I'm a little surprised by that, but there's probably subtlety there that's worth discussing.

[Jack Armstrong]

So our population is aging in the United States. Actually all of Western Civ is aging quite a bit right now. One in six people are 65 or older and that's going to grow in future years by a lot. So there's a lot of money to be made. If you are a company that sells stuff and making sure you know you're catering to older people, not only are there going to be a lot of them, they tend to be the ones that have money to spend on things. Like one German luxury automaker, I'm assuming it's Mercedes, spent a lot of money on coming up with an old suit that people could wear to kind of simulate being old and then try to craft their cars for older people. And this has caught on and become a thing. The original version of the mit MIT built this age suit was for for Mercedes, but now they're using it for a whole bunch of different stuff. And the New York Times had an article over the weekend. My day is an 80 year old what an age simulation suit taught me this reporter woman wore the MIT design suit and it's about what you'd probably guess 15 pound weighted vest. They add weights around your ankles and wrists to replicate the sensation of a loss of muscle mass that accompanies aging. They pulled a blue jumpsuit over the weights helping me lift, making it a little more difficult to lift your legs. A bungee cord system attached to different parts of your body just to make you a little more stiff, a little harder to bend over. All kinds of different things.

[Joe Getty]

Wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

Goggles to distort your vision a little bit. Something for your hearing to make it a little harder to hear. It's called Agnes the Age Gain now empathy system. Agnes. The Agnes suit. And like she wore it around the grocery store and realized she couldn't reach stuff on the higher shelf because she just didn't have the flexibility and muscle mass anymore to get up on her tiptoes and reach way up high. Stuff like that.

[Joe Getty]

Right. The suit sounds half comedic, honestly, but the entire tent there. Yeah. In a, in a world of aging people, that's, that's, that's good. It's nice. I remember there's a conceit among the young or like you never think about it, but kind of in the back of your mind you think, look at that old guy kind of walking bent over and slow. I'm not gonna be like that. I'm youthful forever. He's a weak character.

[Jack Armstrong]

It did get to in the article, which I thought was pretty good. You can put off that by quite a bit by staying active.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, I, for instance, I'm strong like bull. Frequently announced, all that stuff goes away.

[Jack Armstrong]

If you don't use it. But if you stay active, exercising, lifting weights, all that sort of stuff and then whatever for your brain, you can put it off a long time. But as it points out in the New York Times, the majority of reason that we end up that way or for a lot of people is not your fault. Just random bad luck. Get even the best prepared person in the old person lifestyle. Armstrong and Getty.

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If you eat too many ultra processed foods, you could be starving your gut microbes and they'll get hangry. That's one of many things I learned after working on a new audio course about the gut microbiome. You can learn how to keep your gut happy by listening to Try this from the Washington Post I'm Christina Quinn. I host Try this. Dig in with me on practical advice for life's common challenges. Follow. Try this right now, wherever you're listening. Seriously, try it.

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[Asma Khalid]

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[Tristan Redman]

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[Asma Khalid]

I'm Asma Khalid in Washington, dc.

[Tristan Redman]

I'm Tristan Redman in London and this is the Global Story.

[Asma Khalid]

Every weekday we'll bring you a story from this intersection where the world and America meet.

[Tristan Redman]

Listen on BBC.com or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Jack Armstrong]

Thank you so much MTV for giving me the Vanguard Award.

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I can't believe I'm getting my first VMA tonight.

[Joe Getty]

Night.

[Jack Armstrong]

I just have one question. What in the Sam Hill were you waiting for?

[Joe Getty]

I'm kidding.

[Jack Armstrong]

I love you mtp.

[Joe Getty]

I love you. Love you so much. This is amazing.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'm perplexed. I, I I'm not trying to dis on people's music tastes or anything like that. Different people like different music. Whatever, I don't care. But is There a crowd for videos at this point? Am I just missing it? My kids don't watch videos and they're really, really into music. They both listen to music constantly, but they aren't aware of any videos. So what are the MTV Video Awards?

[Joe Getty]

Video Music Awards? Well, it reminds me of our discussion of, like your green energy boondoggles, where billions of dollars are being spread around. The dollars are the point, not the. Not the excuse for spending the dollars. Spending the dollars is the point. In the same way the v. The existence of the show is. So they have a show. It's not to give out video music Awards. And it. It's an excuse to assemble the pop stars of the day and sell commercials. Okay, that's it.

[Jack Armstrong]

And Sabrina Carpenter, who is the. She was on Saturday Night Live, is the only reason I know who she was. But. So she's like the current hottie who, like, pushes the limits of. Of being too sexy and. And it's, in theory, controversial. And. Yeah, once you're older and you've been through this cycle 15 times with Britney and Madonna and whoever else, it's just. It's so, I don't know, uninteresting.

[Joe Getty]

But yeah, it's like some good laundry detergent. Promising you brighter brights and whiter whites or whatever. I mean, okay, I don't. Either it is or it isn't now. So she's some sexy songstress. It'll show us a large portion of her boobies.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, her album cover. Her album cover was too sexy and had to be recalled. And they put out a different one.

[Joe Getty]

That was tamed down and covered with brown paper. Right. For shocking the eyes of Americans. Yeah, I know, it's just. It's so silly. But congratulations, Mariah Carey on your Vanguard Award. Yes. So, breaking news. Jack completely misreported it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay.

[Joe Getty]

Misled you. The Supreme Court ought to rule on you. No, it was right. It was right as far as it went.

[Jack Armstrong]

I think I just read the sentence that was out from ABC News. Maybe they got it wrong.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Oh, if it's ABC News, the chances are 9 out of 10 they got it wrong. Yeah. The Supreme Court lifted a federal judge's order prohibiting government agents from making indiscriminate immigration related stops in the LA area. Challengers called it blatant racial profiling. The court's brief order was unsigned, gave no reasons. It is not the last word in the case. It's pending before a federal appeals court and may again reach the justices. All they said was, no, we're not going to stop the federal government for doing. From doing this until it works its way through the courts. We're not granting you a temporary restraining order. They can keep doing what they're doing. Okay, well, near term, it allows what critics say are roving patrols of masked agents routinely violating the Fourth Amendment and what supporters say is a vigorous but lawful effort to enforce the nation's immigration laws.

[Jack Armstrong]

I besmirched abc and I shouldn't have. I should be besmirching the New York Times. So the New York Times wrote this this way on purpose then? Because I just read it from their headline. Breaking news. The Supreme Court lifted restrictions on ICE agents in Los Angeles, allowing them to make indiscriminate stops based on factors like ethnicity. That is accurate but misleading. And they. What they. The result they want is for you to say, oh, no, Trump's out of control. MAGA court has done it again.

[Joe Getty]

Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's what the point was of writing it that way for the New York Times. Nice job, New York Times.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, yeah, yeah, I would agree.

[Jack Armstrong]

God, you have to look into. If you see a headline about a Supreme Court ruling, you have to look deeper than that. And even then you might have to look a lot deeper to figure out what actually happened.

[Joe Getty]

You know what the most amusing part of that story is? And this is the sort of thing I chuckle about, which is why I have no friends. The fact that they called the stops, the searches indiscriminate when they are literally arguing in court that they're discriminatory. Which one are they? These indiscriminate discriminatory searches must end. You can't be both dumbasses.

[Jack Armstrong]

But a lot of times you'll hear a gun ruling, and it wasn't a gun ruling at all. It was a standing ruling or it was something completely different than what the headline is.

[Joe Getty]

Right, right. Or it was a. No, we're not changing this. We're keeping it the same until this works through, blah, blah, blah. It wasn't a ruling in favor of what? Not right.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay.

[Joe Getty]

Speaking of guns and Hispanics and roundups and that sort of thing. So maybe you've heard Trump talked about sending the federal troops to Chicago. He's not really serious about that.

[Jack Armstrong]

Although Chicago is about to find out why it's called the Department of War. He tweeted out over the weekend, which is pretty provocative from the President.

[Joe Getty]

You can forgive people for thinking. Yeah, yeah, that's right. That was a crazy ass thing to say. Anyway, I thought this was so interesting, and this is the Wall Street Journal. That's. They've lost control of their lefty young reporters, obviously. But this is a article about that topic and I thought this was so interesting. The latest move alarmed immigrants in Chicago, keeping them home during a month when celebrations for Mexico's independence usually fill the streets. In the Pilsen neighborhood, which is largely Hispanic, police closed off streets for the annual Mexican Independence Day parade on Saturday. Normally the event is a joyful one with residents packing the sidewalks. This time, few people turned out. Is there any other country on earth where you would leave your God forsaken country to come to the one that's way better run, way safer, you have much better prospects for yourself and your children, and then you wave the flag of the, the, the crappy place you left and celebrate the Independence Day in the new country.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's a good point.

[Joe Getty]

Now I could see American expats having a little fourth of July celebration or something. I don't think I would petition the government of Austria, for instance, to shut down streets. Yeah, we gotta have a fourth of July celebration. No, you don't. You're in Austria. America love it or leave it, amigos. That's what I'm saying, amigos.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, my God.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, and one more immigration story because I find it so interesting. And, and you call this the giant immigration raid at the Hyundai plant in Georgia where hundreds of South Korean workers were lined up and shipped out. And the U.S. state Department and the South Koreans, we've, we've come to an agreement because we're, we're buddies. We're, we're, we're friends and allies and you don't want things to turn ugly. But you said immediately when you heard about the story, something's going on here. How do you have hundreds and hundreds of South Koreans working illegally at this giant plant that was a giant investment in America. And it's not clear to me exactly where the malfeasance is. It might be the state of Georgia, although this is a federal matter.

[Jack Armstrong]

I use the example that I'd lived through this before where a. Some sort of plant, some sort of. You don't really want to do that for your living. Plant opened up in a small town near me in Kansas and it was all Vietnamese in a part of the state where there were lots of Mexican people around. So why was it all Vietnamese for this plant? Clearly they were working with somebody to end up.

[Joe Getty]

It's random. They just a bunch of Vietnamese people insert our ad in the International Times. Yeah. What are you gonna do now? Obviously, yeah, there's some sort of pipeline with some sort of wink and nod by somebody. And that sure looks like what this is because Brian Kemp, the, the governor of Georgia, who in general I, I think highly of, he had touted this gigantic investment that is, like most of these things, not exactly paying the dividends that it was supposed to. But Hyundai and LG Energy Solutions, which is their partner, because it's, it's, I think it's mostly an EV battery plant. That's, that's most of the thing. It seems like instead of hiring a bunch of Americans, including union guys, who may or may not be making more than they should, whatever. I'm not going to argue that point. But they mostly just brought in a bunch of South Koreans. And the big parent companies are like, yeah, our people are legal. But they turned a blind eye to what all the subcontractors were doing, who were just flying in hundreds and hundreds of Koreans who spoke the same language, who had the same work ethic, slash traditions, whatever. And, and, and it like, generated very few American jobs. It was all Koreans doing the work in there.

[Jack Armstrong]

I feel like I saw or heard a tease of something about Trump saying he's going to crack down on the business end of that, but I haven't followed up on that, which has always been a problem with the whole illegal immigration thing. If you would go after the businesses, I think you could end this. But there's never been will to do that.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, yeah. Now Trump did say, looks like there are a bunch of illegal aliens. And ICE was just doing their jobs.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay.

[Joe Getty]

Which is good.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, definitely.

[Joe Getty]

How do you important. Hundreds, like almost 500 Koreans to work at this new plant. Well, does that work?

[Jack Armstrong]

The example I'm using of Garden City, Kansas, in the 80s they opened. I forget what the plant was, but it was not a plan place that you particularly want to work. Thousands and thousands of people from Vietnam all of a sudden were working there. I mean, that is some sort of agreement between the plant and the country of Vietnam or something to make that happen.

[Joe Getty]

And somebody at State Department has to be going along with it.

[Jack Armstrong]

You would think so.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Yeah. Well, the giant meat companies, they have a lot of influence.

[Jack Armstrong]

And then you can understand from the company standpoint, especially since we've been, you know, winking and nodding this to death for decades. You don't want eight different languages. How about I just get one group of people from one country that all speak the same language.

[Joe Getty]

Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

And put them in a neighborhood where they're all happy being together.

[Joe Getty]

Well, and Hyundai's thinking, yeah, you got a bunch of fat lazy Georgians around here. They don't want, you know, if we can get them to quote unquote work at all, they don't work much. Or we could bring in a bunch of South Koreans who you know from the age of 6 on are part of a drill and kill culture where you excel or you commit suicide. And right we'll have them work themselves to death. It's a better deal for us. That's what they did.

[Jack Armstrong]

If you know anything about that Texas or emails because there's obviously something hinky going on there. We will finish strong.

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[Christina Quinn]

If you eat too many ultra processed foods, you could be starving your gut microbes and they'll get hangry. That's one of many things I learned after working on a new audio course about the gut microbiome. You can learn how to keep your gut happy by listening to Try this from the Washington Post I'm Christina Quinn. I host Try this. Dig in with me on practical advice for life's common challenges. Try this right now, wherever you're listening. Seriously, try it.

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[Asma Khalid]

Learn [e-mail] America is changing and so is the world.

[Tristan Redman]

But what's happening in America isn't just a cause of global upheaval. It's also a symptom of disruption that's happening everywhere.

[Asma Khalid]

I'm Asma Khalid in Washington D.C. i'm.

[Tristan Redman]

Tristan Redman in London, and this is the global Story.

[Asma Khalid]

Every weekday we'll bring you a story from this intersection where the world and America meet.

[Tristan Redman]

Listen on BBC.com or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Jack Armstrong]

Appreciate a lot that there are fans of this radio show. I mean, that's awesome. In addition to just being listeners, like fans, like, we're up, I don't know, a music group or something.

[Joe Getty]

And I was completely unaware where my group is at. Huh? Come on.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, what's the deal where my groupies be at?

[Joe Getty]

I'm gonna have to turn you down because I'm faithful to my wife, but I'd appreciate the effort.

[Jack Armstrong]

There's a Facebook fan page and a Reddit fan page that I was completely unaware of. It'd been up for years and, and, and tens of thousands of people on it. And uh, I didn't know they existed, but anyway. And I never look at them, but the Reddit page got taken down. Somebody posted something on there that violated Reddit policies, which I can't imagine what that is, cuz Reddit is full of lies, porn, filth, I mean, just, I mean, all kinds of craziness. What was posted on an Armstrong and Getty Reddit page that violated their standards? I can't even imagine what that'd be.

[Joe Getty]

Two theories have emerged as I've studied the emails. Number one, Reddit is run by mostly young way lefties.

[Jack Armstrong]

True.

[Joe Getty]

And they despise us and everything they, everything we hold dear. And so they're against us. The second one was that it was getting clogged with spam from somebody trying to get you to stream college football games for free or something like that.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay.

[Joe Getty]

And they had to shut it down.

[Jack Armstrong]

I was on one. I thought, I thought it was our Facebook recently, just to check it out. And one of you who. I appreciate you listening, but posted so much that it was impossible to see anything else. So I thought, I don't know how anybody enjoys this. Maybe if you're a fan, try to keep your posts to a couple per day so other people can participate. That's just my suggestion.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I guess I would have to look at it to know. Although there have been a couple I've looked at, just people have mentioned, hey, they're saying this and that, and you might be. And I was somewhat amused. But thank you for listening. I mean, obviously, speaking of the modern.

[Jack Armstrong]

World, you're a weirdo.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I mean, weirdos just keep to yourself, right? Just don't unleash your weirdness on us. So, speaking of the modern world, it's interesting. I'm involved in what I would call a local political situation. And it's interesting that it is very much like the national political situation in that it's divided and far nastier than it's ever been. There is nastiness in the air and snark and people assuming that people who disagree with them don't disagree with them because they have different needs or see the situation differently. It's that they must be bad people with bad motives.

[Jack Armstrong]

Is it that? Or is that just the way we talk now? Or at least online, the way we talk and we just feel like we have to.

[Joe Getty]

That's an interesting distinction. I mean, expressing that, whether they feel. No, I think they actually feel it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, like, I'll use the example of last week. I got Rio, the football game in Brazil. I was mixing up in my head Sao Paulo and Rio, and I got that wrong. And there were responses on the text line that were just so angry and hateful.

[Joe Getty]

Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

As opposed to. I think you're mixing the two towns up or something.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. There are really only two cities in Brazil, anybody knows. And you got. You got it wrong.

[Jack Armstrong]

But I just can't imagine being that angry about. How could you possibly be so stupid? Do some research, you know, that sort of. And I just. And I just think it's the way you feel like you gotta talk online.

[Joe Getty]

Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

To get any attention.

[Joe Getty]

It's an interesting distinction. And we have noticed that occasionally, once, once in a while, somebody unleashes that sort of venom. Who I thought, like, I had a friendly email relationship with, because I don't answer a lot just because of time, but I answer some and, you know, say, hey, thanks, I disagree, but here's why. Blah, blah, blah, and. And whenever we call somebody on it, they immediately apologize and say, I'm sorry. I didn't really mean that. I was. Had a bad day or whatever. Blah, blah, blah. So maybe you're right. Maybe it's. It's just the lingua franca, as they say.

[Jack Armstrong]

So I remember you talking about one of your kids doing with the haters. Gonna hate it. Was just so used to the way people talk online, it didn't mean anything to him. So maybe it's just a. When we're all dead. Those of us who didn't grow up with calling each other, you know, hateful liar, mfers all the time. The younger crowd will be so used to it, it won't. Won't be a big deal.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, well, you know, humans get a human. I'll bet it goes in cycles. I'll bet they decide it's too much and they start getting nice again. Maybe. Final thought. Speaking of nice.

[Jack Armstrong]

That'S fantastic stuff.

[Joe Getty]

Good stuff. Takes me back to a better time.

[Jack Armstrong]

Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.

[Joe Getty]

Hey, let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew to wrap up things for the day. There he is, pressing the buttons in the control room. Michelangelo, Michael, what's your final thought?

[Jack Armstrong]

All right.

[Joe Getty]

Earlier in the show, Jack said the oldest things he's ever said. I'm excited about my prunes. And so I think soon you'll be mentioning dentures, metal detectors, and hard candy.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. We get home and the package is front of the door. And I said, my prunes are here. And my son said, that's the oldest thing you've ever said.

[Joe Getty]

God, your son is a champ. Katie Green is off temporarily. She will be back soon, and we're happy about that. Jack, a final thought for us.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. I mentioned attending the Eagle Scout ceremony for a kid in my son's troop.

[Joe Getty]

Man.

[Jack Armstrong]

A shout out to all the parents that make that sort of stuff work, whether it's Youth Sports or 4H or Scouts or whatever your thing is. Takes a lot of time, but it is so important for society.

[Joe Getty]

My final, final thought is, boy, I really like watching football.

[Jack Armstrong]

Nothing wrong with that.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Good buddy of mine said, yeah, it was the first game of the year and I was watching the tennis, so I didn't. I'm like, oh, my God. I can't even imagine missing a 49ers game.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, in football, every game matters.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Yeah. I don't know why I like it so much. These players wouldn't like me. They wouldn't want to hang out with me. They'd leave my favorite team the minute they get offered more money. And yet there I sit, enthralled.

[Jack Armstrong]

Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.

[Joe Getty]

So many people. Thanks a little time. Go to armstrongandgetty.com check out the hot links pickups May and G Swag helps to keep everybody on the payroll on in these troubled times. The light hoodie perfect for the autumn.

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Yes, we're always facing a blitz and it's 4th and 10 here. We need your help. We will see tomorrow. God Bless. Less American Just in case you missed any part of the Armstrong and Jesse show, we're not going to war, we're going to war. The criminal cartels Our rights do not.

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Come from our laws or our governments is extremely troubling.

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Europeans continue Buy oil and Russian gas.

[Jack Armstrong]

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[Christina Quinn]

If you eat too many ultra processed foods, you could be starving your gut microbes and they'll get hangry. That's one of many things I learned after working on a new audio course about the GUT microbiome. You can learn how to keep your gut happy by listening to Try this from the Washington Post. I'm Christina Quinn. I host Try this. Dig in with me on practical advice for life's common challenges. Follow Try this right now, wherever you're listening. Seriously, try it.

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[Asma Khalid]

Learn [e-mail] America is changing, and so is the world.

[Tristan Redman]

But what's happening in America isn't just the cause of global upheaval. It's also a symptom of disruption that's happening everywhere.

[Asma Khalid]

I'm Asma Khalid in Washington, D.C. i'm.

[Tristan Redman]

Tristan Redman in London, and this is the Global Story.

[Asma Khalid]

Every weekday, we'll bring you a story from this intersection where the world and America meet.

[Tristan Redman]

Listen on BBC.com or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Christina Quinn]

This is an iHeart podcast.