Sweet God! It's A Lion!

Summary

Armstrong & Getty On Demand Episode: Sweet God! It's A Lion! Release Date: July 11, 2025

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Introduction

In this engaging episode of Armstrong & Getty On Demand, hosts Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty delve into a wide array of topics, blending humor, personal anecdotes, and sharp political commentary. From explorations of gender dynamics to critical analyses of current events, the duo ensures listeners are both entertained and informed.

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Understanding "Angry Young Women"

[00:47]

The episode kicks off with a discussion on the phenomenon of "angry young women." Joe Getty introduces the topic by sharing his newfound understanding of why young women today exhibit heightened levels of frustration and anger.

Joe Getty:
"I finally found the scholarship I'm looking for to help me understand why it's so overwhelmingly young women who are insane these days."
[00:50]

Jack Armstrong contrasts his experience of raising boys with Joe's experience coaching both sexes, highlighting the differing challenges and social dynamics.

Jack Armstrong:
"Having raised young women... Whereas I am raising only boys."
[01:13]

The conversation delves into evolutionary perspectives, debating whether women inherently hold societies together through more complex social interactions compared to men.

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Personal Anecdotes: The Cold Plunge Experience

[04:37]

Shifting gears, Jack shares a personal story about his attempt at a cold plunge, inspired by a friend's positive experience.

Jack Armstrong:
"I was afraid this would happen... I jumped in a cold shower... I hated it, but I felt so awesome afterwards."
[05:00]

Joe and Jack discuss the physiological and psychological impacts of such practices, pondering whether the initial shock is crucial for the subsequent feelings of invigoration.

Joe Getty:
"I think the human body has various gears... and it feels great, which we don't."
[07:05]

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News Highlights and Commentary

[09:04]

The hosts transition into their news segment, providing commentary on several current events:

1. Mark Halpern's Newsletter Insight:

   • Jack Armstrong:
     "Planet Earth continues to revolve around DJT... everything in this country revolves around one guy's decisions in a way that really wasn't the way the whole thing was crafted."
     [11:42]

2. Recall of Sandwich Crackers:

   • Joe Getty:
     "The company saying some individually wrapped crackers may have peanut butter inside... Shoppers with peanut allergies are urged to discard any product identified in the recall."
     [09:38]
   • Jack Armstrong:
     "They’re going to get cheese. Got peanut butter."
     [10:01]

3. Trump's Tariff Plans:

   • Jack Armstrong:
     "President Trump plans to impose blanket tariffs of 15 or 20% on almost all trade partners... He thinks it's going to positively affect the stock market over time."
     [27:16]
   • Poll Insights:
     • Israelis overwhelmingly view the U.S. as their greatest ally, while Canadians and Mexicans perceive the U.S. as a significant threat.
     • Jack Armstrong:
       "Even Mexico, 68%. Greatest threat to Mexico is the United States."
       [28:53]

4. ICE Raid on Cannabis Farm:

   • Joe Getty:
     "Illegal pot farms continue to be a profitable business... Legal marijuana has done nothing to the illegal marijuana market."
     [26:33]
   • Gavin Newsom's Reaction:
     "Trump calls me new scum. He's the real scum, says Gavin Newsom."
     [24:51]

5. Arrests and Public Health Concerns:

   • DHS Trisha McLaughlin:
     "We have arrested almost 600 known or suspected terrorists."
     [14:29]
   • Mass Drug Overdose in Baltimore:
     • Joe Getty:
       "If you have frequent nightmares, you're much more likely to die prematurely."
       [16:20]

6. Mattel's Ozempic Barbie:

   • Joe Getty:
     "Type 1 diabetes is a pretty good question. They didn't want a heavy set Barbie... type 1, which is genetic."
     [17:36]
   • Jack Armstrong:
     "This just looks like a regular Barbie. High cholesterol Barbie."
     [36:19]

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Clips of the Week: Humorous Highlights

[20:46]

The hosts share a series of comedic clips from the past week, showcasing humorous takes on everyday situations and societal quirks.

• Jack Armstrong:
  "Get rid of the gorilla Henry Clips of the week."
  [20:46]
• Joe Getty:
  "It's flash flood alley. They ... You think we're not keeping you from being run by China or someone else?"
  [21:49]

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Listener Mailbag: Engaging Audience Interaction

[35:07]

Listeners' emails provide a platform for discussing various topics:

1. Barbie with Diabetes:

   • Joe Getty critiques the educational value and practicality of a Barbie doll representing type 1 diabetes.
   • Jack Armstrong:
     "This just looks like a regular Barbie. No, no, no. This is high cholesterol Barbie."
     [36:24]

2. Investigations of Comey and Brennan:

   • Discussion on potential FBI raids similar to prior incidents involving Roger Stone.

3. Russian Lynchings and Politician Critiques:

   • Joe Getty:
     "They will continue until morale improves."
     [37:24]
   • Aaron from Sin City:
     "Keep dinging that Hitler bell."
     [38:08]

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Closing Thoughts and Future Topics

[38:34]

As the episode wraps up, Armstrong and Getty tease upcoming discussions:

• Investigations into ICE's operations and child labor violations.
• Trump's evolving foreign policy and its global implications.
• Elon Musk and AI controversies involving the chatbot Grok.

Jack Armstrong:
"We got to dig more into that story because that's a big one today."
[25:49]

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• Joe Getty:
  "I finally found the scholarship I'm looking for to help me understand why it's so overwhelmingly young women who are insane these days."
  [00:50]

• Jack Armstrong:
  "Having raised young women... Whereas I am raising only boys."
  [01:13]

• Joe Getty:
  "The way women express loyalty, hostility, friendship, anger, etc., is often less straightforward than the way males do."
  [03:06]

• Jack Armstrong:
  "I jumped in a cold shower... I hated it, but I felt so awesome afterwards."
  [05:00]

• Joe Getty:
  "Being positive reinforces your mind... but if you have frequent nightmares, you're much more likely to die prematurely."
  [16:35]

• Joe Getty:
  "Mailbag: Drop us a note [e-mail] if you want to keep your own money, you're a bad person."
  [35:15]

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Conclusion

In "Sweet God! It's A Lion!", Armstrong and Getty navigate through a multitude of topics with their signature blend of humor and insightful commentary. From dissecting societal issues like the anger among young women to critiquing current political maneuvers and engaging with listener feedback, the episode offers a comprehensive and entertaining listen for both regular followers and new listeners alike.

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Transcript

[Jack Armstrong]

This is an iHeart podcast.

[Joe Getty]

Broadcasting live.

[Jack Armstrong]

From the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at.

[Katie Green]

The George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

[Jack Armstrong]

Armstrong and Getty. And now here's I'm Strong and Getty live on a Friday from studio C. C dimly lit room deeper than the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound. And hey, y'. All. Today we're under the tutelage of our.

[Joe Getty]

General manager, angry young women.

[Jack Armstrong]

What?

[Joe Getty]

And it's not about my dating history. Not entirely. Angry young women. I finally found the scholarship I'm looking for, I've been looking for to help me understand why it's so open. Overwhelmingly young women who are insane these days. Okay. I think I finally get it out with y'. Alls.

[Jack Armstrong]

Having raised young women.

[Joe Getty]

Yes. And I had clues, I had hints, I had a kind of a murky, half formed understanding of it. Now I get it.

[Jack Armstrong]

You have the advantage of having raised girls and boys. Well, boy. But yes. Whereas I am raising only boys and I was talking to somebody. This, I've had had this experience a couple times where I've talked to people who've raised only girls. And like when either side interacts with the other or sees it, they're like, wow, this is completely different than what I'm doing. Like the raising girls, way different than raising boys.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. And coaching both sexes for years and years helped me understand a lot better too, the, you know, the differences and the way they interact especially.

[Jack Armstrong]

Huh? Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Because within a team, I mean, you have all sorts of socializing going on. That's so interesting to observe.

[Jack Armstrong]

I was at a school yesterday and just talking about my boys being teenagers now and they, they had girls and boys and they said all the girls are way harder as teenagers. You know, in terms of being worried. I imagine I would, my, my level would be much higher.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, there's that and just the emotional complexity of the evolving relationship with, with dudes, boys. It's, it's not easy at all, but it's not.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's.

[Joe Getty]

There are like two aspects to it. With girls, it's like a roller coaster of ever changing. Oh my God.

[Jack Armstrong]

And why is that? Evolutionary speaking. Oh, gosh.

[Joe Getty]

Wow. I, you know, this would be a long conversation. The way women express loyalty, hostility, friendship, anger, etc. Is often less straightforward than the way males do. If a dude is mad at you, you're gonna know it because he's gonna tell you.

[Jack Armstrong]

So I wonder if it. Women, more than men hold societies together or did you know, through most of evolution for human beings and that Would be more complicated than just getting 30 dudes together to go hunt a bison.

[Joe Getty]

Right, right. Although bison hunting is no picnic, but.

[Jack Armstrong]

It'S a very straightforward task.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I see what you mean. Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Not the complexities of the whole village in trying to figure that out.

[Joe Getty]

Well, and this actually relates directly to what I was talking about with the angry young women. And the way women perceive the world and the way they form coalitions makes them particularly prone to radicalization, Especially if. And this is a little hint, but this should not be shocking to anybody, Especially if you can provoke their natural maternal instinct. That same instinct that if a woman hears an infant crying, doesn't matter her kid, somebody else's kid, the kid of her mortal enemy. Unless she's a psycho, she will feel a strong urge to help, to comfort, to take care of that infant. This is as deep in our DNA as anything that can be easily manipulated by those who would radicalize women.

[Jack Armstrong]

Interesting.

[Joe Getty]

And that's just one layer of it, but, yeah, it's super interesting. We'll. We'll get to that in hour two of the show.

[Jack Armstrong]

So this morning, I got a text yesterday from a friend of mine who said, I did a cold plunge this morning, and it was awesome. It was absolutely awesome.

[Joe Getty]

Changed his life.

[Jack Armstrong]

Was.

[Joe Getty]

But changed your life. Yes.

[Jack Armstrong]

And, you know, and I had been threatening to do this for quite some time. Time. And I thought, I'm gonna do it tomorrow. I'm gonna jump in my pool in the morning.

[Joe Getty]

Yes.

[Jack Armstrong]

And I got up this morning, and I just. I. I was afraid this would happen. I thought, I can't bring myself to jump in my pool. But I did jump in a cold shower. I turned on the shower and immediately got under there, which was quite shocking. I mean, it made me go, yeah, we've all done it. I made noises and expelled breath and everything like that. And I'll tell you what, I hated it, and I don't look forward to doing it ever again. But I felt so awesome afterwards.

[Joe Getty]

I mean, the.

[Jack Armstrong]

The level of invigoration and ready for the day was off the charts.

[Joe Getty]

Now, if you were to, like, start it just, like, lukewarm and then go toward cold, would that have the same effect, or do you have to have the shock?

[Jack Armstrong]

I have no idea if the shock is the key or not.

[Joe Getty]

That is part of it.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'll bet it is too. And I really want to do the jump in the pool thing. I was asked.

[Joe Getty]

We all think you should.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, I was asked. And so have you done that whole heart monitor thing? And I said, No, I haven't, actually. You might want to do the heart monitor thing before you go jump in the cold pool first. But I don't know, it was, you know, so we got started by this client. We have a good dude that does it, and he hate. He hates it, and every day he dreads it. He gets up in the morning, thinks, oh, God, I got to do it again. He hates every bit of it, but loves the results. So he's been doing it for a long time now. He bought one of the actual, you know, tub things that you do. But, wow, it was. It was shocking what it did to me. It was just like, whoa, bring it on, world. I mean, and I never feel that way.

[Joe Getty]

That is so it's. I am. I think I am perfectly symmetrically intrigued and horrified. Like, exactly the same levels of each.

[Jack Armstrong]

But why would something that we dread so much be so good that. That. That usually you dread things? Because, you know, getting back to evolution, our, you know, our evolution is telling us this isn't a good idea.

[Joe Getty]

Well, I think what's going on here, and this is my guess as a physician. Well, I. I fancy myself an amateur physician, is that the human body has various gears from like, just waking up to, you know, laying around on a summer's day on up to I'm at work, on up to I'm coaching soccer, for instance, up to I'm under attack and my life is at stake.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right.

[Joe Getty]

And that you can't stay at that level, that last level, partly because for millions and millions of years, you didn't have nearly enough calories available. I think you're artificially putting yourself in DEFCON 1. And. And it feels great, which we don't.

[Jack Armstrong]

Get enough, probably, as modern adults, you.

[Joe Getty]

Probably got almost never, historically speaking.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, you get fight or flight every once in a while, but. But not very often in the modern world. Like every couple of years.

[Joe Getty]

Maybe that's what I meant by almost never.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. And. And I wonder, back in the old. In the old timey days, you might.

[Joe Getty]

Have gotten it every day at least once, regularly.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, that's a pretty good theory right there for an amateur doctor. Anyway, we should start the show officially. But I've done it. Day one. I really enjoyed it. I was hesitating. But when I started it, though, I thought, nah, maybe tomorrow. But yeah, I thought, you gotta do it.

[Joe Getty]

Although, wait a minute. Now this. I'm intrigued. I have ideas. I mean, for instance, if you don't want a cold plunge and I don't, how about have just like a Lion run through your subdivision now and again and you'll say, sweet God, it's a lion. You would feel fully alive.

[Jack Armstrong]

Hire an out of dirt work actor to put on a hockey mask and jump out from behind the closet with a long blade. Right.

[Joe Getty]

But obviously it's got to be varied. Otherwise it's like, hey Jim, how are you?

[Jack Armstrong]

Is that a new hockey mask? Yeah, it wouldn't work right. Okay, let's start the show. And there's the lion.

[Joe Getty]

I'm telling you, you would feel alive.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Jo Getty on this. It is Friday, July 11th via year 2025 or Armstrong and get in. We approve of this program.

[Joe Getty]

It's 7 11. Is there something stupid happening today? Store offering discounts or free slushies?

[Jack Armstrong]

You have free slurpees or something. So do you know, Michael, don't take our word for it. If you go into 711 and they say, what are you talking about?

[Joe Getty]

Well, don't walk out with a Slurpee. Yeah. All right, here we go. Let's start the show officially now, according to FCC rules and regulations, leaping into action at mark, the parent company of Ritz issuing a voluntary recall of some sandwich crackers.

[Jack Armstrong]

The company saying some individually wrapped crackers.

[Joe Getty]

Be incorrectly labeled as cheese but may have peanut butter inside. Shoppers with peanut allergies are urged to discard any product identified in the recall.

[Jack Armstrong]

That is a funny news story.

[Joe Getty]

Well, especially with that stupid idiot David Biore using his ultra serious voice. With cheese and peanut butter, people thinking.

[Jack Armstrong]

They'Re going to get cheese. Got peanut butter. All right.

[Joe Getty]

How many people actually have dangerous peanut allergies?

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't know. It doesn't taste like cheese or peanut butter. Is the thing with those little Ritz crackers, they're delicious but they don't taste like either one of those things.

[Joe Getty]

The only way to tell the difference is the horrifically cancer inducing completely artificial dyes.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, change the color.

[Joe Getty]

Put that cheese orange dye in the formerly kind of tannish brown peanut butter. Fake peanut butter. People would swear it's cheese.

[Jack Armstrong]

So we've got Katie's headlines on the way. We do need to get into the news of the day. There is some lots to talk about. Stay here.

[Joe Getty]

Armstrong and Getty.

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[Jack Armstrong]

We got some trade stuff that's brand new. May or may or may not be in Katie's headlines. But I was reading the newsletter I read every morning to see what's going on in the world and Mark Halpern wrote, as planet Earth continues to revolve around DJT to a degree that would flummox the founders. That is absolutely true. The whole world and everything in this country revolves around one guy's decisions in a way that really wasn't the way the whole thing was crafted. But that's partially because the. Not partially, almost entirely because the main branch of government, Congress has decided, eh, you do it right.

[Joe Getty]

Right. We just want to keep our jobs forever and our health care and our pensions and not have to do anything or be on the record. So if you would just do everything, that would be great. Yeah, some of the stuff's great as usual. Some of it is inexplicable and bizarre and terrible. But I tell you what, this, this is why we didn't want a king. Anyway, more of that to come. Let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead story with Katie Green. Katie.

[Unknown]

All right, starting with abc. Trump is heading to Texas after catastrophic flooding.

[Jack Armstrong]

You know, you gotta, I don't know that it does anybody any good anytime that happens, but you got it.

[Unknown]

NBC ice faces off with protesters at Southern California cannabis farm. I don't know if you saw this. This was huge. And they're, they have a fifty thousand dollar reward out for one of these guys that brand just a gun at the ice officers.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow, we're gonna have a bad scene. I mean we've already had some bad scenes. We're gonna have some worse scenes, I think.

[Joe Getty]

Now is that the antifa scumbag who shot at ice officers? Because y. He's all right. I think that's a different thing. But maybe not. Anyway, yeah, you're hearing all sorts of news, aren't you? And commentary on your. Your cable channels and your major news sites about antifa and how dangerous they are and gun wielding lunatics. No, not so much. Huh. That's funny.

[Unknown]

CNN Trump threatens 35% tariff on Canadian goods and he made double what most other nations are charged.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, man, does he hate Canada or what? The deal got some polling I meant to get to yesterday on what Canadians and. And Mexicans and a variety of other countries. Think of the United States. It's really interesting.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. And there are a couple other moves you've made including a 50% tariff on copper that is going to brutalize the American economy. There's just no reason for it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Thank God we got rid of the penny.

[Unknown]

From Breitbart.com DHS Trisha McLaughlin says we have arrested almost 600 known or suspected terrorists.

[Joe Getty]

Really? 600?

[Unknown]

600.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow.

[Unknown]

From the New York Times. Two dozen hospitalized in mass drug overdose in Baltimore.

[Joe Getty]

Wow. Got some bad fentanyl or whatever.

[Jack Armstrong]

What was it?

[Unknown]

That's the. So I was reading through the article and officials have not seen said what the drug is. But I mean it has to be fentanyl.

[Joe Getty]

Well, it could be in Philly.

[Unknown]

You said Baltimore.

[Joe Getty]

Baltimore, okay. Yeah. They have a terrible drug problem too. It could be tranq or, or one of those other.

[Unknown]

I forgot about.

[Jack Armstrong]

What was the thing in San Francisco the other day? It was fentanyl laced with rat.

[Unknown]

Rat poison.

[Joe Getty]

Rat poison.

[Unknown]

Insecticide.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Unknown]

From the Hollywood Reporter, Larry David returning to HBO with an Obama produced sketch series.

[Joe Getty]

Okay, go ahead.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, is it going to be political? I hope not. God, I hope.

[Joe Getty]

Is that just where he got the seed money? I don't.

[Unknown]

Just let me.

[Joe Getty]

Let me know if it's any good.

[Unknown]

From the New York Post. A great Detroit father's final wish is granted as helicopter drops money and rose petals from the sky.

[Jack Armstrong]

What now?

[Unknown]

This guy's dying wish was to drop money over the neighborhood. Neighborhood he grew up in. So this helicopter drives over and starts dropping rose petals and money and everybody.

[Joe Getty]

Goes nuts for four people were killed preceding him into the grave during the melee.

[Unknown]

From Study finds happy thoughts could be the secret to a stronger memory.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow. Okay.

[Unknown]

Saying that being positive reinforces your mind.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, okay. All right. I'm positive that won't work. So I. I also read a study that if you have frequent nightmares, you're much more likely to die prematurely.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, I don't.

[Joe Getty]

Which we can get into. But I'm thinking, you know, if you do have frequent nightmares, you're already in a bit of a mood. I mean, it's not good. And now I'm telling you, you're gonna die early. I feel bad. I feel like I'm piling on. But it was really interesting. It was, you know, intense surges of fear over and over again wear you out. Back to our earlier theme of lions and cold plunges.

[Unknown]

And finally, from the Babylon Bee, Mattel introduces new Ozempic Barbie with syringe and detachable belly.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's based on the Barbie. The, the first ever Barbie with diabetes, right?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, type 1 diabetes. And it was funny when you said that I was thinking, really Type one, which is, you know, genetic. It's a condition as opposed to obesity caused, which is type 2. But yeah, sure enough, it's type 1. 95, 90 to 95% of cases of diabetes are type 2.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, really?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

I didn't know that.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I just looked it up.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay, so you're. Yeah. So the. Why. Why Barbie? Type 1 diabetes is a pretty good question.

[Joe Getty]

Because they didn't want a heavy set Barbie, I guess, under any circumstances. Look, we want to resonate with the diabetes crowd, but we can't have a fat Barbie. So what do we do? How about type 1 diabetes? Just a pancreatic condition. Excellent job, Jones. You're promoted.

[Jack Armstrong]

And then Ken, whose one leg is slightly longer than the other and all, everything that comes with that.

[Joe Getty]

Limpy Ken.

[Jack Armstrong]

Limpy Ken.

[Joe Getty]

Wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay, maybe we can get to some of the actual news of the day yet. The, the tariff thing on some of our friends and then some of their attitudes toward us. According to polls, a lot of it based around the tariffs is pretty interesting. All kinds of stuff on the way. If you miss a segment, get the podcast. Armstrong and Getty on demand.

[Joe Getty]

Armstro and Getty.

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[Jack Armstrong]

It's an interesting angle to the headline. So Katie had one of her headlines was about ICE and the raid on the pot farm and then that turned violent and everything. And then you made the point that this is getting no news coverage. Violent attacks with guns on federal agents who are just enforcing the current law. Right. Is getting passed by Congress. Is getting zero attention in the news unless you're watching Fox. And then this point being made. ICE rescued many illegal alien children from forced labor on marijuana farms. I mean, so they got child labor going on there. Right. Which you don't allow for, you know, white kids. You're not allowed to work under the age of 16 because that'd be exploitive. Yeah, it's. The whole thing is so crazy.

[Joe Getty]

Yet another example, a measure of how utterly dishonest and. And stupid blind our media is. On the other hand, they're dying, so there's our vengeance. Let's. We've got so much to get to and including a couple more examples of that sort of thing. But first, excuse me. It's the Friday tradition. Let's take a fun look back at the week. There was. It's cow Clips of the week.

[Jack Armstrong]

Get rid of the gorilla Henry Clips of the week. You guys need to get off the golf course. You're not scaring anybody.

[Joe Getty]

Come on, man. Yo, we just knocked. Man, I wish I ate a couple more. I'm sorry, guys.

[Katie Green]

I'll sit in your car for a fraction of the price of a parking ticket.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

I exceeded otes by 25% retaining customer.

[Joe Getty]

The TSA saying effective immediately, all passengers.

[Jack Armstrong]

Will be able to keep their shoes on through security. The company saying some individually wrapped crackers.

[Joe Getty]

May be incorrectly labeled as cheese, but may have peanut butter inside.

[Jack Armstrong]

Hey, you wanna go, guys? They call this area flash flood alley.

[Katie Green]

Four months of rain fell in a.

[Jack Armstrong]

Matter of hours in the list of Jeffrey Epstein's clients.

[Joe Getty]

It's sitting on my desk right now. Meaning the file. That's what I meant. Stay away from my gun.

[Jack Armstrong]

Stay away from my gun. A Democrat politician is calling for those.

[Joe Getty]

To ratchet up their activities and spill blood.

[Jack Armstrong]

There were many, many, many dozens of rounds fired from by the suspect towards the building. Elon Musk breaking even more from President Trump, saying he will create the America Party. Elon Musk vowed to retrain his AI system known as grok Those changes appear to have prompted Grok to use some anti Semitic tr. The chatbot going so far as praising Adolf Hitler. We get a lot of bull thrown at us by Putin.

[Katie Green]

The Russian leader unleashing his largest aerial.

[Unknown]

Assault yet on Ukraine.

[Joe Getty]

So who ordered a pause last week?

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't know. Why don't you tell me?

[Joe Getty]

What does it say that such a.

[Jack Armstrong]

Big decision could be made inside your.

[Joe Getty]

Government without you knowing?

[Jack Armstrong]

I would know. If a decision was made, I will know.

[Joe Getty]

President Trump now saying the US Will resume weapons shipments to Ukraine.

[Jack Armstrong]

The Iranians were very serious about you take out the president. The letter I sent to the Nobel Prize Committee. It's nominating you for the Peace Prize, which is well deserved. We're going to have a UFC fight. We're going to have a UFC fight. Think of this. On the grounds of the White House. Hey, leave it alone, man.

[Joe Getty]

Bang, bang, bang. Come on, man. Bang, bang. So in 1, 2, 3.

[Jack Armstrong]

Strike to a round at the old Holy cow.

[Joe Getty]

Wow. Ended on a sour note there. That Call Me Daddy podcast chick per intentionally abusing the national anthem. So Wrigley Field, of all places, the shrine of baseball.

[Jack Armstrong]

Take me out to the ball game. Not quite as egregious, but still, it's a hallowed tradition.

[Joe Getty]

Right, yeah. I'm sorry. Right, exactly.

[Jack Armstrong]

So we need to dig more. Wait a minute.

[Joe Getty]

The National Anthem isn't the one with the peanuts and Cracker Jack always getting them confused? That's a funny slip of the brain there.

[Jack Armstrong]

No, ours does it. I just saw this from. I don't remember who one of our followers who's funny the other day had tweeted on 4th of July. That's right, our national anthem, the middle part of it includes a long passage about blowing ass up.

[Joe Getty]

Well, I'm thinking about the Francis Scott Key or the ramparts. We watched for the peanuts and Cracker Jack now.

[Jack Armstrong]

So, Katie, you can do this for news or whatever, and we'll do it. Also, we need to dig more into this whole immigration raid of the marijuana farm. I'm catching a lot more on this, and it's quite the story because Gavin Newsom, the governor, is out saying all kinds of things about parents being disappeared into violent or dangerous, horrifying detention centers, blah, blah, blah.

[Joe Getty]

And there are activists trying to stop ICE from rounding up the people at this illegal marijuana growing.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, my God, the video. And I see the tear gas and the people running, but I don't see what led up to it. So gotta look into this more. But Gavin Newsom tweeted out kids running from tear gas, crying on the phone because their mother was just taken from the fields. Trump calls me new scum. He's the real scum, says Gavin Newsom.

[Joe Getty]

Wow. Way to be on the wrong side of every issue, you putz.

[Jack Armstrong]

The California Border Patrol commissioner tweeted out. Here's some breaking news. Ten juveniles were found at this marijuana facility, all illegal aliens, eight of them unaccompanied. It's now under investigation for child labor violations. So you got eight kids there working in the fields, and there were no parents there.

[Joe Getty]

Right. So they're. They're imported child labor. They're trafficked child laborers. And when the federal feds try to go in there and deal with it, Gavin Newsom says it's disgusting and wrong. Way to go, Gavi. Way to read the room, you idiot.

[Jack Armstrong]

I just wish we could have an honest conversation about this. Look, we have lots of people here illegally. That's the law. Do you want to enforce it or not? Let's figure that out. And then are we all comfortable with the fact that we've decided there are certain kinds of jobs we don't want our kids to do, or we don't want to do ourselves? So we're going to import brown people and have them do it, and if.

[Joe Getty]

We can't get enough brown grownups, let's bring in some brown children. They'll work. Right. They don't know any better. And if they try to leave, we'll.

[Jack Armstrong]

Beat them or something.

[Joe Getty]

Says the left in America.

[Jack Armstrong]

So, man. Yeah, so we got to dig more into that story because that's a big one today.

[Joe Getty]

Katie's working the pot farm beat. We'll do that, what, next hour maybe?

[Jack Armstrong]

And it's also just an interesting story that illegal pot farms continue to be apparently a profitable business, even with marijuana illegal.

[Joe Getty]

Hundred percent. Yeah. Legal marijuana has. Has done nothing to the illegal marijuana market because especially in Cal Unicornia, it is so taxed and regulated, it is prohibitively expensive compared to the illegal stuff. And given the lack of will to enforce marijuana laws at this point, those who have a better margin in the league illegal trade have very little to fear.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, if you could buy illegal gas in California that didn't have the taxes on it, I'd be buying that every day.

[Joe Getty]

And where is that available?

[Jack Armstrong]

Exactly.

[Joe Getty]

Exactly.

[Jack Armstrong]

So, different story, but also a big story. Today, President Trump said he plans to impose blanket tariffs of 15 or 20% on almost all trade partners. It says here in NBC News, which is a little prejudicial, obviously dismissing concerns that further tariffs could negatively affect the stock market or drive inflation. Well, he thinks it's going to positively affect the stock market over time and make the country better. That's why he's doing it. He might be wrong, but I mean, that's his intent is not to make things worse.

[Joe Getty]

Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

But I think this is pretty interesting, some polling that came out. Where is the US Considered the most important ally and where is it considered the greatest threat? They asked people that in various countries. For instance, in Israel, which is where the population likes us the most for lots of obvious reasons, 95% of Israelis consider the United States their greatest ally, 1% their greatest threat. The worst number and the second to worst number are what stand out. You go down the list. I mean, South Korea, it's 89% say greatest ally.

[Joe Getty]

Way to go, buddy.

[Jack Armstrong]

Japan, 78% greatest ally. But you go down the list, you get down to the bottom Worst. Mexico, 68%. Greatest threat to Mexico is the United States. And Canada, 59% say the greatest threat to their country is the United States.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, that one hurts.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, even Mexico.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

You think we're not keeping you from being run by China or someone else? You really think some other country wouldn't, with all your natural resources, one of these big, bad violent countries wouldn't come in and say, okay, we're taking over, but we have cartels. Get the F out of here. Cartels. And I mean, now China would say, right? And they would take care of it.

[Joe Getty]

They would send a hundred thousand men. Yeah. To take care of that. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's troubling.

[Jack Armstrong]

God. I would say you're the two countries that border. You believe you're the biggest threat to them.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. There are aspects of Trump's foreign policy that I've just absolutely hated. The thing with Canada is, you know, a lot of this stuff will settle down. Canada will be like, well, we're okay, eh? And. And we'll go back to being buddies.

[Jack Armstrong]

I think mostly hockey season starting.

[Joe Getty]

Mexico is a little more complicated, I'd say.

[Jack Armstrong]

Ain't good though.

[Joe Getty]

Now, Trump did threaten to like send the military in to deal with the cartels and that sort of thing. I'm sure that because you have to remember a country like Mexico has irresponsible clickbait media just like we do.

[Jack Armstrong]

Sure.

[Joe Getty]

And so for all I know, that's like a narrative in the left leaning media.

[Jack Armstrong]

God, I would think if you lived in Mexico, you'd want the United States to send the military in and wipe out the cartels.

[Joe Getty]

Tell you what if I'm running some, you know, county newspaper, some small time or big time news operation and the cartels are like, yeah, we kind of like this angle that the US Is the real threat. You're going to run those stories.

[Jack Armstrong]

I would like to know what these numbers were prior to Liberation Day when all the tariff stuff started. I got to, or I guess Trump had already talked about taking over Canada and making it the 51st state. I think that's where most of the anger comes from, don't you? From Canada.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

You're going to be our state talk.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, that's the only source of it.

[Jack Armstrong]

You know, the tariffs plays a role.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, no, no. Those two things that, that set of things you mentioned. Yeah, that's it. It's not like long simmering resentments. There aren't any.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, that's something, though. And one more thing. Trump told Kristen Welker of NBC News, I believe he did an interview that's going to air on Meet the Press. Read the Russia, Ukraine thing, which is quite the developing story. And I want to read Peggy Noonan's column in the Wall Street Journal today about how heartened she is and Trump's turn against isolationism. She makes quite the argument against isolationists, too, in her very eloquent way. But maybe we'll get to that later. Trump told Christian Walker of NBC News yesterday that the United States is continuing to send weapons to Ukraine through NATO and that he will be making a major statement on Russ Monday. Oh, my. So I wonder if he's going to announce the big package of. What's the word?

[Joe Getty]

Armaments. No, sanctions.

[Jack Armstrong]

Sanctions. He's going to finally announce that big sanction thing on Monday. He's made a turn of, for, for whatever reason.

[Joe Getty]

Right, right. That much is clear. You know, there are. I was going to make the case later that, but, well, no, I'm not going to make the case now. It's, it's, it's, it's provocative. It's, dare I say, dangerous. And so I want to be able to support it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay, so we'll dig into that raid on the legal pot farm and try to figure out what's going there. Gavin saying he calls me new scum. He's the scum. I wish we could have the conversation about this on a slightly higher level, but, you know, with, with that.

[Joe Getty]

Ship has sailed. Sorry?

[Jack Armstrong]

Ship has sailed. Yeah, no kidding. We've got Mailbag on the way and a bunch of other stuff. Stay here.

[Joe Getty]

Armstrong and Getty.

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[Jack Armstrong]

Got an American chick in the finals at Wimbledon?

[Joe Getty]

She knocked off the number one seed yesterday.

[Jack Armstrong]

Good. USA Democratic Party's got an antifa problem in a way that they've never had before. Byron York writing in the Washington Examiner. Maybe we'll get to that now or two. That's a heck of an interesting story that's going to grow.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I think they've had that problem for a long time, but the COVID up's been successful. But perhaps I'm quibbling. I can't wait to hear this. Just stay with us. If you can't subscribe to the podcast Armstrong and Getty on Demand, you can listen anytime you want. Later on. Here's your freedom loving quote of the day. Continuing on with our series from the great Thomas Soell who turned 95 lately, I have made a command decision. We will have two quotes today. Two open ended demands are a mandate for ever expanding government bureaucracies with ever expanding budgets and powers. Absolutely true concise description of reality. And then this. This is one of his all timers. This is one of his, you know, five greatest hits. I have never understood why it is greed to want to keep the money you have earned. But it's not greed to want to take somebody else's money.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, that is. That is so good.

[Joe Getty]

Mailbag. Drop us a Note [e-mail] if you.

[Jack Armstrong]

Want to keep your own money, you're a bad person. If you want to take someone else's money, you're a good person.

[Joe Getty]

Yes, yes. In the perverse upside down universe of progressivism, JT and Livermore has a couple of thoughts the first about the first Barbie with diabetes. What the f. I have no problem from a free market point of view if they think they can sell more dolls this way. More power to them. But what does it even mean to have a doll with a disease that can't be reflected in any way by the actual doll? I mean, it would be like making a Barbie and declaring she was born with only one kidney. With respect to diabetes, she doesn't have any internal organs, let alone a pancreas. Nor does she have an immune system. Thus she can't suffer from an autoimmune disease like diabetes. What's next? The first Barbie with Trisomy 27? The first Ken with prostate cancer. These dolls don't even have a hint of genitalia, so it cannot be justified on the notion of educational value.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's pretty funny.

[Joe Getty]

Oh boy. I have a great joke in mind.

[Jack Armstrong]

This just looks like a regular Barbie. No, no, no. This is high cholesterol Barbie.

[Joe Getty]

And then on the topic of Comey and Brennan being investigated for perjury, can we expect a dawn raid by an FBI tactical team like they did to Roger Stone given that one or both of them are being accused of the same crime that was cited as justification for the Stone raid? Lying to Congress man.

[Jack Armstrong]

Brennan put a pretty strong pushback yesterday. He is. He is one of the all time shady lion scary people. I hope he gets outed.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, one of the Alzheimer's. I agree. Another J in San Jose writes the Russian lynchings. Could all the mysterious deaths of Russian officials and VIPs be the modern day equivalent of the hangings in the town square? Well, they are in a. In a very real way. They just let you know what happens if you get on the wrong side of Putin. And he also writes they will continue until morale improves. Oh, that's dark. And let's see. How about Aaron in Sin City. Good morning Big Freedom and Simple Jack. Difficult for me to write this email because I, like many friends of Angie, think Michelangelo is a national treasure. But I might. I must voice concern regarding the inconsistency of the the Hitler ding. What actually triggers the ding? Recently Hitler discussions on the show produce dings barely 50% of the time. The Hitler dings are some of my favorite moments of the show. Could an intern be placed on the Hitler bell? Or given recent news, maybe Grok would volunteer to ring the bell for Der Fuhrer. And in case anyone is keeping score, this email deserves precisely 4 dings. KDTHP. Keep dinging that Hitler bell, Aaron. And since and we've heard zero dings. What?

[Unknown]

Katie, I was just gonna say Michael gave you the biggest middle finger. He just didn't play one that whole.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Right, right. Yeah. You tell me how to do my job, Aaron. Huh? Well, and as I've been forced to clarify through the years, it's for gratuitous mentions of the Chancellor of Germany, not historically relevant ones. And I've yelled at Michael, sometimes rapidly, in German for misinterpreting that.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay, we gotta get to a whole bunch more news. I hope you can stick around for hour two.

[Joe Getty]

Armstrong and Getty.

[Jack Armstrong]

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